______________ACLL2017 ACTC2017 THE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE LEARNING THE ASIAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM ART CENTER KOBE, KOBE, JAPAN MAY 11–14, 2017 “To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions” The International Academic Forum provides new perspectives to the thought-leaders and decision-makers of today and tomorrow by offering constructive environments for dialogue and interchange at the intersections of nation, culture, and discipline. Headquartered in Nagoya, Japan, and registered as a Non-Profit Organization 一般社( 団法人) , IAFOR is an independent think tank committed to the deeper understanding of contemporary geo-political transformation, particularly in the Asia Pacific Region. INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY iafor The Executive Council of the International Advisory Board Mr Mitsumasa Aoyama Professor June Henton Professor Baden Offord Director, The Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Dean, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights & Co- USA Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice Southern Cross University, Australia Lord Charles Bruce Professor Michael Hudson Lord Lieutenant of Fife President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Professor Frank S. Ravitch Chairman of the Patrons of the National Galleries of Economic Trends (ISLET) Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law Scotland Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, The and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law Trustee of the Historic Scotland Foundation, UK University of Missouri, Kansas City Professor Richard Roth Professor Donald E. Hall Professor Koichi Iwabuchi Senior Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean Professor of Media and Cultural Studies & Director of Northwestern University, Qatar Lehigh University, USA the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia Former Jackson Distinguished Professor of English Professor Monty P. Satiadarma and Chair of the Department of English Professor Sue Jackson Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology & Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender & Pro-Vice Former Dean of the Department of Psychology and Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University Rector of the University, Tarumanugara University, Professor Arthur Stockwin of London, UK Indonesia Founding Director of the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies & Emeritus Professor Mr Mohamed Salaheen The University of Oxford UK Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Director, The United Nations World Food Programme, Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham Research Japan & Korea Institute, Cambridge, UK Professor Chung-Ying Cheng Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, University Mr Lowell Sheppard Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i at of Cambridge Asia Pacific Director, HOPE International Manoa, USA Fellow of the British Academy Development Agency, Canada/Japan Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk Professor Keith Miller Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil Professor Steve Cornwell Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Science, University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA Professor Mary Stuart Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan Vice-Chancellor, The University of Lincoln, UK Osaka Local Conference Chair Professor Kuniko Miyanaga Professor Gary Swanson Director, Human Potential Institute, Japan Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S. Professor A. Robert Lee Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern Former Professor of English at Nihon University, Colorado, USA Tokyo from 1997 to 2011, previously long taught Professor Dennis McInerney at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK Professor Jiro Takai Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Co- Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social Director of the Assessment Research Centre Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology Professor Dexter Da Silva The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Graduate School of Education and Human Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University, SAR Tokyo, Japan Development, Nagoya University, Japan Professor Brian Daizen Victoria Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova Professor Georges Depeyrot Professor of English President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Professor and Director of Research & Member of the Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University Board of Trustees French National Center for Scientific Research Professor Yozo Yokota (CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Professor Michiko Nakano Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan Professor of English & Director of the Distance Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Professor Johannes Moenius Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Kensaku Yoshida William R. and S. Sue Johnson Endowed Chair of Professor of English & Director of the Center for the Spatial Economic Analysis and Regional Planning Professor Thomas Brian Mooney Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education, The University of Redlands School of Business, USA Professor of Philosophy Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Head of School of Creative Arts and Humanities Professor of Philosophy and Head of School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University, Australia The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 Official Conference Proceedings ISSN:2186-4691 © The International Academic Forum 2017 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Sakae 1-16-26-201 Naka Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Japan 460-0008 ww.iafor.org Table of Contents Cross Cultural Representation in Pakistani’s EFL Textbooks Shamim Ali pp. 1 - 12 Factors impacting on teacher cognition and teachers' approaches to language teaching in Japanese high schools Thomas Stringer pp. 13 - 38 Blended Learning for In-service Teachers’ Professional Development: Lessons from the Experience of a Singaporean Chinese Language Teacher Educator Yan-Ni Tan Yuh-Huann Tan Fong-Yee Chow pp. 39- 54 Special Filipino Curriculum (SFC): A Technology- Oriented Curriculum for Foreign Language Students Rosalie Tangonan Nina Christina Lazaro-Zamora Voltaire Villanueva pp. 55- 60 Syntactic Variety and Writing Quality: An Investigation on EFL Students’ Argumentative Writing Yu-Shan Fan pp. 61- 73 Teachers’ View on The Use of Portfolio Assessment in Secondary Schools in Indonesia Rizaldy Hanifa pp. 75- 86 The Challenges of Teacher-Mediated vs Computer-Mediated ESL Instruction Cecilia B-Ikeguchi pp. 87- 97 Changing writing classrooms through group dynamics Eric Hirata pp. 99- 115 “I am afraid of Learning English”: The Interplay between Anxiety and Learning Experience on Indonesian Senior High School Students’ Academic Performance Winda Ari Anggraini pp. 117- 133 English as the World’s Lingua Franca and the Challenges of Developing Strategic Ernest Michael Seely pp. 135- 149 Japan Away from Japan: The Tehran Supplementary Japanese School Kaya Munakata Shinji Munakata pp. 151- 163 Developing Global Leadership Skills with Model United Nations (MUN) Lori Zenuk-Nishide Sonoko Saito Neil McClelland Donna Tatsuki pp. 165- 178 Investigating ‘Interest’ Development of Indonesian Students in an MA TEFL Programme in Learning English as an L2 Ratna Yunita pp. 179- 192 Expressing Locality in Learning English: A Study of English Textbooks for Junior High School Year VII-IX in Indonesia Context Agnes Siwi Purwaning Tyas Sekolah Vokasi pp. 193- 202 Motivational Changes and Their Effects on Achievement: Japanese High School English Learners Michinobu Watanabe pp. 203- 224 Teachers’ Attitude toward Journal Writing Asdar Muhammad Nur pp. 225- 237 Learning Growth and Attitude Of Students Exposed to Prolonged Non- Contractual English Intervention Program Anabel Wellms Benecito Maratas pp. 239- 246 Teaching Writing through Clustering Technique Surya Asra pp. 247- 256 The Implementation of Teacher’s Motivational Strategies in EFL Classrooms Irma Soraya Slamet Setiawan pp. 257- 267 Fabiola D.Kurnia Teaching How to Think and Write: Realities and Suggestions on Writing Instruction in English Education in Japan Madoka Kawano Wakasa Nagakura pp. 269- 285 Promoting Cross-Cultural Communication and Student Reflection through Speaking Logs Timothy Ellsworth pp. 287- 296 Scaffolding L2 Readers: How Can We Help Them Develop into Autonomous Lifelong Learners? Etsuo Taguchi pp. 297- 304 Expressing Jamaican Culture in the foreign language classroom Tazuko Iijima-Kelly pp. 305- 310 A Comparative Corpus Study on the Use of Academic Hedges and Boosters in Applied Linguistics Hui-Ya Chen pp. 311- 316 Analyses of Non-Native Preservice English Teachers’ Verbal Interactions on COLT Part B Scheme Noriaki Katgagiri pp. 317- 333 Yukiko Ohashi The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 Official Conference Proceedings Cross Cultural Representation in Pakistani’s EFL Textbooks Shamim Ali, AIOU, Pakistan The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 Official Conference Proceedings Abstract The spread of English language as an international language has increased the numbers of its non-native speakers more than its native speakers all over the world .It has arisen the issue of the possession of this language. This study aims at describing and exploring and the type of cultural content found in English Language textbooks in Pakistan. Considering learner’s various language needs.