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Yang, Fang-Ying; Hung, Ching-Ling – CATESOL Journal, 2018
Sharing the same theoretical basis of extensive reading, "extensive listening" refers to learner exposure to a great deal of comprehensible spoken input. While the effectiveness of extensive reading has been widely acknowledged in many countries, empirical support of extensive listening is limited. This small-scale study adopted a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Procter-Legg, Emma; Cacchione, Annamaria; Petersen, Sobah Abbas – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This paper presents language learners as social networkers and describes and discusses the types of users that can be identified by analysing the content created by them using a situated mobile language learning app, LingoBee, based on the idea of crowd sourcing. Borrowing ideas from other studies conducted on social network users, we can identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing
Tuckett, Alan – Adults Learning, 2011
Adult learning is not a tidy business: adults fit learning into the spaces left by the other demands on complex lives, and into the spaces left in administrative structures overwhelmingly designed for other people. No simple metric can capture adults' diverse purposes and achievements, and no single programme can capture the full range of things…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Adult Students
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Lyons, Michael J.; Kluender, Daniel; Tetsutani, Nobuji – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Motivated by a consideration of the machine-mediated nature of human interaction in web-based tutoring, we propose the construction of artificial expressions, displays which reflect users' felt bodily experience, to support the development of greater empathy in remote interaction. To demonstrate the concept of artificial expressions we have…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Interaction, Second Language Learning, Japanese