Volume 30, Number 2 – August 2026 A Word from the Editors… (pdf) PERSPECTIVES Scott Alkire, Learning Korean at Age 60: Insights from a Linguaphile; (pdf) FEATURE ARTICLES Yuri imamura & Danie Hooper, Between English-Only Ideology and Classroom Reality: Language Policy in Japanese Higher Education; (pdf) Padma Lamo, Saleem Mohd Nasim & Rajakumar Guduru , Modality Principle in Learning L2: A Systematic Review of How Proficiency Moderates the Efficacy of Reading-While-Listening on Receptive Skills; (pdf) Abdul Mutashobya & Koen Van Gorp , Teachers’ Experiences with Performance-Based Assessment: Challenges and Strategies in an EFL Context; (pdf) Gaia Oikawa, The Effects of Prior Vocabulary Knowledge and Addressees in Sentence Writing Tasks: An Exploratory Study; (pdf) Raju Dhuli, Rajakumar Guduru, Praveen Kumar Ambati, Anand Binod Singh & Padma Lamo, Evaluating the Impact of Bilingual, Trilingual, and Multilingual Definitions on Incidental Vocabulary Learning through Story Reading; (pdf) Masaki Akase, The Role of Vocabulary Learning Strategies in Longitudinal Vocabulary Growth; (pdf) Shadab Jabbarpoor & Mohammad Sadegh Ghalibafan, Digital Fatigue and Emotional Burnout in Hybrid EFL Classrooms: Insights from Teacher-Learner Interaction; (pdf) Ali Aaj, Enhancing EFL Learner Autonomy through the Jigsaw Reading Task: A Comparative Study of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Groups; (pdf) Olga Oliinyk, Nadiya Bevz, Inna Derevianko & Igor Shuliakov, Gamified English Language Teaching in Higher Education in the Context of War: Motivational and Psycho-Emotional Aspects; (pdf) Melisew Tibebu Amare, Mekonnen Esubalew Tariku & Solomon Mesfin Yilma, Collaborative and Individual Writing Instruction in EFL Classrooms: A Baseline-Adjusted Comparison of Writing Motivation and Creativity-Related Writing Performance; (pdf) Xiaolong Liu, Danyang Zhang & Danling Li, Senior High School Students’ English Learning Self-efficacy and New Media Literacy: Instrument Validation and Correlation; (pdf) ON THE INTERNET Editors: Omran Ali Akasha & Mark Feng Teng Lilit Sargsyan, Pedagogically Structured AI Feedback and Grammatical Accuracy in EFL Speaking: A 14-Week Longitudinal Study; (pdf) REVIEWS Books Editors: Dmitri Detwyler & Veronika Maliborska Lingliang Liu & Huihui Li, Review of the book, Digital Multimodal Composing: Connecting Theory, Research and Practice in Second Language Acquisition, M. Kessler (2025); (pdf) Media Editors: Tim Kochen & Jihee Im Suryani Jihad, Hardiani Ardin & Sri Mulyani , NotebookLM. ; (pdf)