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Download full textAlmogheerah, Ameera – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The study aimed at investigating the effect of using WhatsApp-based learning activities on developing idiom knowledge among Saudi university English as a foreign language (EFL)students compared to conventional method. It also examined the students' perceptions towards the application of WhatsApp in idiom-learning. The rationale for conducting this…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language)
Direct linkHirata, Yoko; Thompson, Paul – ELT Journal, 2022
With the development of language corpora, linguists have been able to identify how often specific words, phrases, and expressions are used, and in which contexts. However, applications of corpora in the wider domain of language teaching have remained limited. This article presents an approach to utilizing corpora, combining principles from…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Action Research, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Wu, Shaoqun; Li, Liang; Witten, Ian; Yu, Alex – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article reports on a language learning system and a program designed to help students with academic vocabulary in the New Zealand university computer science department. The system is a learner-friendly corpus-based tool that allows students to look up lexico-grammatical patterns of a given word in academic writing. The program, based on a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Science Education, Graduate Students, Academic Language
Jeaco, Stephen – TESOL International Journal, 2017
While studies exploring the overall effectiveness of Data Driven Learning activities have been positive, learner participants often seem to report difficulties in deciding what to look up, and how to formulate appropriate queries for a search (Gabel, 2001; Sun, 2003; Yeh, Liou, & Li, 2007). "The Prime Machine" (Jeaco, 2015) was…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Huang, Zeping – ReCALL, 2014
This paper examines whether and to what extent data-driven learning (DDL) activities can improve the lexico-grammatical use of abstract nouns in L2 writing. A topic-based corpus was compiled to develop concordance learning activities, and 40 Chinese students majoring in English were randomly assigned to a control group or an experimental group. At…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Patterns, Writing (Composition)
