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Article History

Received: 26 October 2024

Accepted: 31 December 2025

First Online: 28 February 2026

Declarations

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: This research involving human participants has been conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and has received approval from the appropriate ethics committee, specifically the Georgetown University Institutional Review Board. Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

: I, Yunjung Yunie Ku, hereby grant permission for the publication of my work titled “Learning English without an Obvious Purpose? A Task-Based Needs Analysis of Korean Undergraduates in English for General Purposes (EGP) Courses” in Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education. I confirm that I hold the copyright for this work and that I have obtained all necessary permissions for any third-party material included in it.

: The authors declare no competing interests.