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Effectiveness of Virtual Reality on Chinese as a Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Perceptions from International Students
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Chen Chen; Yifeng Yuan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) in Chinese as a second language (CSL) vocabulary learning from the international students' perspective. A new theoretical framework of VR-based vocabulary learning was designed and verified to serve the investigation. A total of 30 international students learning CSL in a Chinese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Computer Simulation
Effectiveness of Captioned Videos for Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Retention: The Role of Working Memory
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Mark Feng Teng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Working memory (WM) may be an essential component of incidental vocabulary learning and retention from captioned videos. However, how WM affects young learners' incidental vocabulary learning under different types of captions remains unclear. The present study employs a between-subject research design. The main purpose is to examine how two types…
Descriptors: Captions, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Towards a Flipped SEF-ARCS Decoding Model to Improve Foreign Language Listening Proficiency
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Chengyuan Jia; Khe Foon Hew; Mingting Li – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Listening is a major challenge for many English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners. Decoding training, which helps learners develop the ability to recognize words from speech, is frequently used to assist EFL learners. Although recent empirical studies on decoding training have provided positive evidence on its effectiveness in improving EFL…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Impact of a Robot and Tangible Object (R&T) Integrated Learning System on Elementary EFL Learners' English Pronunciation and Willingness to Communicate
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Wen-Min Hsieh; Hui-Chin Yeh; Nian-Shing Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Research on how the use of social robots helps improve English as Foreign Language (EFL) young learners' pronunciation and willingness to communicate (WTC) is understudied. This study developed a robot and tangible objects (R&T) learning system and examined its impact on elementary EFL learner's English pronunciation and WTC. The R&T…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Enhancing EFL Learners' Intercultural Communicative Effectiveness through Telecollaboration with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
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Gi-Zen Liu; Jalil Fathi; Masoud Rahimi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has recently attracted the researchers' attention in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context; however, insufficient studies seem to have examined the role of online programmes in enhancing EFL learners' ICC. The current study, therefore, employed a mixed-methods approach to explore EFL learners'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning