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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)
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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
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Tan, Chia-Chen; Chen, Chih-Ming; Lee, Hahn-Ming – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
A number of prominent educators have confirmed that developing learners' metacognitive strategies about listening is an important way of helping them learn how to listen to improve their listening. With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, many listening training systems provide various types of help options in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Listening Skills
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Mohsen, Mohammed Ali – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Several types of help options have been incorporated into reading and listening comprehension activities to aid second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Textbook authors, teachers, and sometimes even students may pick and choose which help options they wish to use. In this paper, I investigate the effects of two help options in a multimedia…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Recall (Psychology), Reading Comprehension
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Fehr, Charles N.; Davison, Mark L.; Graves, Michael F.; Sales, Gregory C.; Seipel, Ben; Sekhran-Sharma, Sarah – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Vocabulary knowledge is of fundamental importance to reading comprehension, and many students lack the vocabulary knowledge necessary to facilitate learning to read. A study was conducted to determine the effects of an individualized, online vocabulary program on picture vocabulary test scores. Elementary summer school students (N = 43), entering…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Scores
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Loewen, Shawn; Erlam, Rosemary – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2006
Zo eplicates in a synchronous learning environment a study that looked at the effectiveness of providing two types of corrective feedback to students in the classroom. Elementary learners of L2 English (N = 31) completed two communicative tasks, during which time they received either recasts (implicit feedback) or metalinguistic information…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback, Instructional Effectiveness