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Lai, Arthur – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Immersion has been an acclaimed approach for second-language acquisition, but is not available to most students. The idea of this study was to create a mobile immersion environment on a smartphone using a mobile instant messenger, WhatsApp™. Forty-five Form-1 (7th grade) students divided into the Mobile Group and Control Group participated in a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
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Bernicot, J.; Goumi, A.; Bert-Erboul, A.; Volckaert-Legrier, O. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2014
The link between students' spelling level and their text-messaging practice gives rise to numerous questions from teachers, parents and the media. A corpus of 4524 text messages produced in daily-life situations by students in sixth and seventh grade (n?=?19, 11-12 years of age) was compiled. None of the participants had ever owned or used a…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Mediated Communication, Grade 6
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Schultze-Krumbholz, Anja; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2013
Examination of the longitudinal relationship between empathy, social-emotional problems and cyberbullying is still rare and the present study is one of very few. The present study assessed whether low scores of affective and cognitive empathy at wave 1 (t1) can predict involvement in cyberbullying five months later (t2). Furthermore, it was…
Descriptors: Empathy, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)