Ngo Cong-Lem

Dalat University

Despite the growth of disaster scholarship, the topic of how and why climate-related disasters and extreme weather events vary among people with different types of disabilities remains unexplored. This study draws on a larger research project that was co-designed between a research institution in Australia and a PwD-led organization in Vietnam. To...

ChatGPT is a conversation-based generative artificial intelligence (GAI) chatbot with impressive capabilities for performing language processing tasks, such as answering questions, generating texts in various styles, making plans, and providing feedback. In this conceptual chapter, we explore how Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective could be applie...

[Call for Papers] Special Issue: Emerging Innovations in Technology-Assisted TESOL Practices in the International Journal of TESOL Studies (IJTS), Indexed by SCOPUS We are inviting researchers to contribute high-quality, methodologically rigorous empirical papers for this special issue. Key Highlights: • SCOPUS-Indexed Journal • Open Access with...

This chapter serves as a comprehensive guide for conducting systematic reviews (SRs) in applied linguistics. SRs play a crucial role in this field, allowing researchers to analyze and synthesize existing research, facilitating evidence-based decisions and advancements. The chapter provides detailed guidance on conducting an SR, including formulatin...

Higher education worldwide has witnessed a rapid growth of English-as-a-medium-of-instruction (EMI) courses. Research reported complex challenges teachers encounter in transitioning from using L1 as a medium-of-instruction to EMI and acknowledged the importance of teachers' agency and perceptions. However, little is known about how teachers exercis...

This research explored the identities and agency of Asian international TESOL doctoral students at a large Australian university, employing a sociocultural perspective and collaborative autoethnography with qualitative content analysis. The study revealed that these doctoral students navigated complex, co-evolving identities – including learner, ea...

This systematic review explores the limitations and opportunities associated with ChatGPT's application across various fields. Following a rigorous screening process of 485 studies identified through searches in Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC, and IEEE Xplore databases, 33 high-quality empirical studies were selected for analysis. The review identifi...

Tensions and conflicts are common in teachers' everyday professional lives, yet research on how these experiences influence pedagogical decisions and teacher agency remains limited. This study employs a broad sociocultural perspective, integrating cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and Vygotsky's concept of perezhivanie, to examine how two...

This paper reviews 42 empirical studies on tertiary educators' professional agency, identifying five key practices: pedagogical innovation, research engagement, professional learning, curriculum change, and maintaining well-being. Teacher agency has been variably conceptualized as being influenced by internal and external factors, such as curriculu...

This study examines the perceptions and responses of Vietnamese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to academic integrity concerns that arise from the use of AI, specifically chatbots like ChatGPT, in foreign language education. The study employed an open-ended survey to collect data from 31 Vietnamese EFL teachers who were asked to sha...

This research investigated the relationship between teachers’ emotions and their professional learning in navigating tensions concerning classroom management. It drew on Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie (Vygotsky, The Vygotsky reader. Blackwell, 1994), which views situations as having a differential impact on individuals’ psychological developmen...

In recent decades, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (VST) has become particularly influential in the fields of education and educational psychology. Perezhivanie is an important concept in VST that stipulates a relative influence of environment on a person’s psychological development depending on their age or stage of development. However, perezhiva...

At the social turn in education, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical/sociocultural theory (VST) has become particularly influential. There are other cultural-historical traditions associated with VST, including Leontiev’s and Engeström’s versions of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT). These approaches are frequently conflated, resulting in confu...

Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (VST) has been increasingly utilised as an effective framework to account for the role of emotions in learning and development. Yet, within VST, emotion has neither been systemically theorised nor investigated. This paper contributes to the literature by offering a theoretical discussion of Vygotsky’s perspective on...

Activity theory has long been an influential framework in the field of education. However, its theoretical concepts are not easily grasped by scholars, mainly due to difficulties in translation from the original Russian works, the complexity of these concepts and multiple versions embedded within the tradition. The two major approaches within activ...

Pastoral Care in Doctoral Education: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Belonging and Academic Identity

Teacher agency (TA) has been increasingly supported as an influential factor for teacher professional learning, school improvement and sustainable educational change. Previous studies, however, feature a variety of discrepancies in their conceptualisation and approaches to examining teacher agency. A systematic review is essential to map the field,...

Objective While academic writing is considered a core competency in academia, academic writing anxiety is ubiquitous in doctoral student cohorts. Doctoral writing groups provide a space for participants to learn from each other’s writing through the peer feedback process. In this conceptual review, we explore the dialogic nature of the peer feedbac...

Data-driven learning (DDL) is a corpus-based pedagogical approach where language learners are allowed to actively search and explore linguistic features of a corpus or an authentic text. This pedagogy is increasingly embraced among English as a foreign language (EFL) educators for its potential to enhance learners’ learning motivation, autonomy, an...

Whilst previous researchers commonly report on the effect of portfolio-based instruction on L2/EFL (second language/English as a foreign language) learners’ language performance, very few studies actually examine its impact on their learning motivation. Drawing on expectancy-value theory, the current study examines how the implementation of a portf...

With the fast-paced development of technology in today’s society, there has been emerging a shift from paper-based reading to digital online reading. While the benefits of exposure to print have been wellestablished in previous studies, how online reading may impact individuals’ literacy development is largely underexplored. The current study inves...

In our modern digitally-driven society, we are oftentimes overwhelmed with a huge amount of information to process on a daily basis. The capacity to capture essential content of a document within minimal time thus becomes especially crucial for efficient study and work. Understanding the main ideas of a text can be greatly facilitated by examining...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) has been well-documented in prior studies as a critical factor for academic success. While previous educational researchers have acknowledged the fact that SRL is both domain and context-dependent (Wolter & Pintrich, 1998), research examining learners’ self-regulatory activities in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) c...

Portfolio, i.e., a collection of evidence for learning progress, has been increasingly employed both as learning and assessment tools in foreign language education. However, prior researchers tend to utilize different theoretical frameworks as well as varying in their implementation procedures. This review firstly reports on the educational afforda...

Despite productive research on language learning strategies (LLS), LLS is still a multifaceted topic subject to controversy. Thus, previous researchers have encouraged conducting further LLS research in different educational contexts and student population. The current study was conducted to examine the LLS use among high school students, a relativ...

The study was conducted to explore challenges Vietnamese postgraduate students were confronted with during their intercultural adaptation process in Taiwan. The participants (N = 28) were administered an open-ended questionnaire, probing into different aspects of their intercultural adjustment, namely academic, psychological and sociocultural issue...

As the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook has sparked great interest from researchers to examine its educational affordances. While Facebook is oftentimes employed as a technology tool to facilitate language-classroom communication and collaboration, the current study examined the potential utilization of Facebook pages as a...

Despite abundant research on willingness to communicate (WTC), few studies have probed into the relationship between L2 WTC and learners' anxiety in taking speaking test. The current study was conducted to examine the interplay among L2 WTC, speaking test anxiety, and speaking proficiency. Participants recruited for this study were 40 tenth-grade s...

The advent of Web 2.0 technology has afforded language educators more useful technology for English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching. This article reviewed 31 empirical studies investigating the employment of web-based technology to enhance EFL learners’ speaking performance. The findings indicated that overall, web-based language learning (WBL...

The article reviewed a selection of research in the field of foreign language teaching into mobile assisted collaborative language learning (Collaborative MALL) – the practice of applying mobile technologies, e.g., applications on mobile phones and laptops, in language teaching context. This review aimed to examine: (1) popular theoretical framewor...