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A Systematic Review of English Medium Instruction in Higher Education by Macaro, Ernesto, Curle, Samantha, Pun, Jack, An, Jiangshan, Dearden, Julie

“…After outlining why a systematic review of research in English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) is urgently required, we briefly situate the…”
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Engagement in language learning: A systematic review of 20 years of research methods and definitions by Hiver, Phil, Al-Hoorie, Ali H., Vitta, Joseph P., Wu, Janice

“…At the turn of the new millennium, in an article published in Language Teaching Research in 2000, Dörnyei and Kormos proposed that ‘active learner engagement…”
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L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning by Teimouri, Yasser, Plonsky, Luke, Tabandeh, Farhad

“…As a personality trait, ‘grit’ has been defined as a combination of perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Past research in social psychology has found…”
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Global Englishes and Language Teaching: A Review of Pedagogical Research by Rose, Heath, McKinley, Jim, Galloway, Nicola

“…The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new…”
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Interaction and Instructed Second Language Acquisition by Loewen, Shawn, Sato, Masatoshi

“…Interaction is an indispensable component in second language acquisition (SLA). This review surveys the instructed SLA research, both classroom and…”
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The Motivational Dimension of Language Teaching by Lamb, Martin

“…Motivation is recognized as a vital component in successful second language learning, and has been the subject of intensive research in recent decades. This…”
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Foreign language enjoyment and anxiety: The effect of teacher and learner variables by Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Witney, John, Saito, Kazuya, Dewaele, Livia

“…Positive psychology has boosted interest in the positive as well as the negative emotions that Foreign Language learners experience. The present study examines…”
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Research Agenda: Language Learning beyond the Classroom by Reinders, Hayo, Benson, Phil

“…Most language learning research is carried out either in classrooms or among classroom learners. As Richards (2015) points out, however, there are two…”
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Teacher Written Corrective Feedback: Less Is More by Lee, Icy

“…In different parts of the world second language (L2) teachers devote a massive amount of time to giving feedback on grammatical errors in student writing. Such…”
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Teaching Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language to Non-Chinese Learners in Mainland China (2014-2018) by Gong, Yang, Gao, Xuesong, Lyu, Boning

“…This review involved 60 articles chosen from 336 empirical studies identified in five leading journals on the learning and teaching of Chinese as a second or…”
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Social Media in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Blogs, Wikis, and Social Networking by Reinhardt, Jonathon

“…This review surveys and synthesizes the findings of 87 focal pieces, published primarily since 2009 and mid 2018, on the formal and informal use of social…”
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Investment and Motivation in Language Learning: What's the Difference? by Darvin, Ron, Norton, Bonny

“…The year 2020 marked the 25th year since Bonny Norton published her influential "TESOL Quarterly" article, 'Social identity, investment, and language learning'…”
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The wellbeing of language teachers in the private sector: An ecological perspective by Mercer, Sarah

“…The teaching profession has been characterized as having high levels of stress and record rates of burnout and attrition. Language teaching is no exception to…”
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Instructed Pragmatics at a Glance: Where Instructional Studies Were, Are, and Should Be Going by Taguchi, Naoko

“…This paper brings together the research and developments of instructed pragmatics over the past three decades by reporting the synthesis findings of…”
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Research Tasks on Identity in Language Learning and Teaching by Norton, Bonny, De Costa, Peter I

“…The growing interest in identity and language education over the past two decades, coupled with increased interest in digital technology and transnationalism,…”
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Oral Corrective Feedback in Second Language Classrooms by Lyster, Roy, Saito, Kazuya, Sato, Masatoshi

“…This article reviews research on oral corrective feedback (CF) in second language (L2) classrooms. Various types of oral CF are first identified, and the…”
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Collaborative Writing by Storch, Neomy

“…Writing has generally been perceived as a solitary activity, completed by the writer working alone. Yet, over the years we have witnessed a growing interest…”
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A Reassessment of Frequency and Vocabulary Size in L2 Vocabulary Teaching by Schmitt, Norbert, Schmitt, Diane

“…The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most frequent word families, and low-frequency vocabulary as…”
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Teacher enthusiasm and students’ social-behavioral learning engagement: The mediating role of student enjoyment and boredom in Chinese EFL classes by Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Li, Chengchen

“…Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology research. There is evidence that teacher enthusiasm is contagious in…”
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Collaborative Writing in L2 Classrooms: A Research Agenda by Li, Mimi, Zhang, Meixiu

“…Research on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) has proliferated over the recent decade and will continue to bloom due to the changing landscape of…”
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