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Jackie Dormer; Kari A. B. Chew; Colette Child; Sara Child; Lokosh; Juliet Morgan; Heather Souter – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
For many Indigenous Nations and organizations, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) courses have become an effective means to support Indigenous language revitalization and reclamation (ILR) efforts. Engaging a methodology of storywork and highlighting relationships between relevant fields of ILR, CALL, and applied linguistics, this article…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decision Making
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Hamel, Christine; Turcotte, Sandrine; Laferriere, Therese; Bisson, Nicolas – McGill Journal of Education, 2015
Education research has shown the importance of helping students develop comprehension skills. Explanation-seeking rather than fact-seeking pedagogies have been shown to warrant deeper student understanding. This study investigates the use of Knowledge Forum (KF) in K-6 classrooms (n = 251) to develop students' explanation skills. To this end, we…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Daigle, Daniel; Armand, Francoise; Demont, Elisabeth; Gombert, Jean-Emile – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2009
This study investigated visuo-orthographic knowledge in deaf readers of French compared to age-matched hearing subjects. More specifically, we were interested in knowledge related to the legal position of double consonants and to the fact that double consonants are much more frequent than double vowels in written French. We used a word-likeness…
Descriptors: Deafness, French, Matched Groups, Comparative Analysis
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Lessard-Clouston, Michael – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This article presents a descriptive case study on the use of technical vocabulary in the lectures of a first-year graduate theology course in Canada. It first contextualizes this research by noting four kinds of English vocabulary and the study of classrooms as lexical environments. Next it outlines the study's methodology, including the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Philosophy