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Yang, Ya-Ting Carolyn; Chen, Yi-Chien; Hung, Hsiu-Ting – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The present research examined the effectiveness of digital storytelling (DST) on foreign language learners' English speaking and creative thinking. In this study, DST was realized in the form of an interdisciplinary project integrated in a partnership between an English course and a computer course, with the class time of the former devoted to the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, English (Second Language)
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Denizci, Can – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Language classroom interactions can be characterized as multimodal, since teachers may resort to a variety of resources provided by their body or by their immediate space in order to convey meaning, manage activities and assess pupils' performances. Furthermore, teachers' multimodal practices constitute an essential component for the…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Herrlinger, Simone; Höffler, Tim N.; Opfermann, Maria; Leutner, Detlev – Research in Science Education, 2017
Adding pictures to a text is very common in today's education and might be especially beneficial for elementary school children, whose abilities to read and understand pure text have not yet been fully developed. Our study examined whether adding pictures supports learning of a biology text in fourth grade and whether the text modality (spoken or…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Pictorial Stimuli, Teaching Methods
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Tiwery, Dian Sartin; Souisa, Threesje R. – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
As the important factors in EFL speaking classroom activities, building students' motivation and interaction in EFL speaking classroom should be designed in meaningful ways. Many studies reported various ways in minimizing the problems as well as proposed innovative ways in teaching speaking skill. One of the ways recommended by the researches is…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Shadiev, Rustam; Hsu, Jung-Lung; Huang, Yueh-Min; Hsu, Guo-Liang; Lin, Yi-Chun – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study applied storytelling in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom in order to promote speaking skills. Students were asked to practice speaking EFL through producing individual and interactive stories with a Web-based multimedia system. We aimed to investigate an effectiveness of applying individual and interactive storytelling…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Animation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ward, W.; Cole, R.; Bolanos, D.; Buchenroth-Martin, C.; Svirsky, E.; Van Vuuren, S.; Weston, T.; Zheng, J.; Becker, L. – Grantee Submission, 2011
This paper describes My Science Tutor (MyST), an intelligent tutoring system designed to improve science learning by students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades (7 to 11 years old) through conversational dialogs with a virtual science tutor. In our study, individual students engage in spoken dialogs with the virtual tutor Marni during 15 to 20 minute…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Science Education, Intelligent Tutoring Systems