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Facilitating EFL Learners' Active Behaviors in Speaking: A Progressive Question Prompt-Based Peer-Tutoring Approach with VR Contexts
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Chen, Chin-Yu; Chang, Shao-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Zou, Di – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Speaking is a challenge for most English learners owing to the lack of practicing environments and partners. The virtual reality (VR) technology has changed this situation by providing learners with rich opportunities for practice. In VR-based practicing environments, peer tutoring is a common strategy for promoting peer assistance. However, in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Speech Communication, Computer Simulation
Advancement and the Foci of Investigation of MOOCs and Open Online Courses for Language Learning: A Review of Journal Publications from 2009 to 2018
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Fang, Jian-Wen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chang, Ching-Yi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Based on the Technology-Based Learning Model, the present study reviewed open online language learning research published in the Scopus database from 2009 to 2018, with a focus on research design, sample size, learning devices, target languages, language skills, the learners' education level, the learners' language proficiency level, learning…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, MOOCs
Incorporating Teacher Intelligence into Digital Games: An Expert System-Guided Self-Regulated Learning Approach to Promoting EFL Students' Performance in Digital Gaming Contexts
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Chu, Shih-Ting; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chien, Shu-Yun; Chang, Shao-Chen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
In recent years, several studies have reported the potential of employing digital games in EFL (English as Foreign Language) courses to promote students' learning motivation. However, scholars have pointed out that students generally lack self-learning ability, which is the key to the success of learning a foreign language. Therefore, it is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Games
Engaging EFL Students' Critical Thinking Tendency and In-Depth Reflection in Technology-Based Writing Contexts: A Peer Assessment-Incorporated Automatic Evaluation Approach
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Liu, Chen-Chen; Liu, Shi-Jie; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tu, Yun-Fang; Wang, Youmei; Wang, Naini – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, automatic writing evaluation (AWE) has received much attention from English Foreign Language (EFL) writing teachers. However, the obstacles and potential problems of integrating AWE in EFL writing instruction have yet to be explored. Scholars have indicated that the effectiveness of AWE in EFL…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
A Contribution-Oriented Self-Directed Mobile Learning Ecology Approach to Improving EFL Students' Vocabulary Retention and Second Language Motivation
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Wang, Zhuo; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Yin, Zhaoyi; Ma, Yongjun – Educational Technology & Society, 2020
Vocabulary mastery is critical to English as Foreign Language students. Mobile technologies enable students to learn vocabulary without space and time limitations. However, existing mobile-assisted vocabulary learning research often employed teacher-directed activities that increased instructors' workload, undermined student motivation or targeted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Electronic Learning, Vocabulary Development
A Flipped Contextual Game-Based Learning Approach to Enhancing EFL Students' English Business Writing Performance and Reflective Behaviors
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Lin, Chi-Jen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Fu, Qing-Ke; Chen, Jing-Fang – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
English business writing is an important and challenging course for English as Foreign Language (EFL) students since it is not only related to English writing skills, but also to business knowledge. Context-game based learning seems to be a good approach to situating students in a meaningful and interesting practicing environment, which could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Business Communication