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Yang, Yang; Leung, Howard; Shum, Hubert P. H.; Li, Jiao; Zeng, Lanling; Aslam, Nauman; Pan, Zhigeng – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
In this paper, a Chinese character educational system based on Kinect is proposed for guiding beginners to learn the basics of Chinese characters in a more intuitive way. It extracts 19 common components, denoted as alphabets, from Chinese characters. Nineteen postures were designed according to the shapes of these alphabets. Instead of memorizing…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nicholes, Justin – TESL-EJ, 2016
This classroom quasi-experiment aimed to learn if and to what degree supplementing classroom instruction with Rosetta Stone (RS), Tell Me More (TMM), Memrise (MEM), or ESL WOW (WOW) impacted high-stakes English test performance in areas of university-level writing, reading, speaking, listening, and grammar. Seventy-eight (N = 78) Chinese learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Courseware
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Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando; Qian, Kan – JALT CALL Journal, 2015
This paper presents both the pedagogical design principles and the challenges faced during the development of a mobile app, Chinese Characters First Steps, to support recognising, learning and practising writing Chinese characters at beginners' level, including the difficult balance between pedagogy and technical affordances. We also present the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Chinese, Courseware, Statistical Analysis
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study reports on creative ways of using technology in the classroom, specifically the development of multimedia courseware on World Heritage through which learners are able to upgrade their knowledge and cognition regarding historical and cultural legacies from the past, and to improve English skills. The content of the pilot courseware…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Technical Education
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Lee, Mimi Miyoung; Lin, Meng-Fen Grace; Bonk, Curtis J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2007
An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. Given the recent plethora of open educational resources (OER), such as the OCW, the growing use of such resources by the…
Descriptors: Global Education, Translation, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Chung-ping; Shen, Chung-wei; Lee, Doris – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
In Taiwan, lectures are commonly used for younger students to learn their own language, which is traditional Chinese. Passively listening to lectures has led to this group of students making such mistakes as forgetting strokes and word meanings, combining phrases to create incomprehensible blurs of information, and switching radicals with phonetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction
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Cohen, Andrew D.; Upton, Thomas A. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
This study describes the reading and test-taking strategies that test takers used in the Reading section of the LanguEdge courseware (ETS, 2002a). These materials were developed to familiarize prospective respondents with the new TOEFL®. The investigation focused on strategies used to respond to more traditional single selection multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Test Items, Courseware, Item Analysis