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Wu, Yi-Ju Ariel; Lan, Yu-Ju; Huang, Sin-Bao Paul; Lin, Yen-Ting R. – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
This study explores the effects of how collaborating in a virtual world (VW) enhanced learners' healthcare professional-patient communicative skills, including physician-patient and inter-professional communication in medical discourse. Through a quasi-experimental design case study, 47 Taiwanese Freshman English students from a College of…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Medical Students
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Guo, Siao-Cing; Lan, Yu-Ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
This study aims to investigate the influence of story creation on young EFL learners' reading performance. Action research was adopted to examine the effects of two different story reading projects in a library setting in Taiwan. Each project comprised a group of 19 young EFL learner from Grades 4 to 6 (aged 10-12). The first group's activities…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation
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Lan, Yu-Ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Second Life (SL) for improving the oral output of overseas Chinese students learning Mandarin Chinese (hereafter referred to as Mandarin). More than 1000 overseas Chinese students attend a university in northern Taiwan every year to learn Mandarin as a heritage language after graduating…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Oral Language, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries