Estimating the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policies on FDI Inflows Into Australia
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To what extent FDI policy settings and changes influence FDI inflows is an empirical question for which global answers are scarce. Australia is a pertinent locale to test this question, having a long history of attracting FDI and a policy approach distinct from most developed countries.
Stewart Nixon
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The longitudinal relationship between foreign language learning anxiety and willingness to communicate in vocational English classrooms among Chinese students: the mediating roles of instrumental motivation and learning engagement. [PDF]
Front PsycholWang Q, Shi G, Huang Y.
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Artificial intelligence-assisted speaking in Spanish as a foreign language: effects on foreign language emotions and willingness to communicate. [PDF]
Front PsycholMiao Y, Hu P.
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Big five personality, anxiety sensitivity, and Turkish L2 speaking anxiety in international students: a mediation model. [PDF]
Front PsycholYayla IE +4 more
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Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What does it mean to ‘do no harm’ in academic research? ‘Do no harm’ ethics emphasizes the responsibility of researchers to mitigate the emotional, physical, and political harms that may arise through participation in research. These concerns are heightened in conflict zones, where access constraints and intersecting vulnerabilities shape the ...
K. B. Roberts
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AI tool use, self-efficacy, foreign language enjoyment, and willingness to communicate: a moderated serial mediation model among Chinese EFL learners. [PDF]
Front PsycholXu L, Wang Y, Feng Y.
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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