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Liu, Qingtang; Zhang, Si; Wang, Qiyun; Chen, Wenli – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
Teachers' online discussion text data shed light on their reflective thinking. With the growing scale of text data, the traditional way of manual coding, however, has been challenged. In order to process the large-scale unstructured text data, it is necessary to integrate the inductive content analysis method and educational data mining…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Yue, Siwei; Wang, Xuefei – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Based on a corpus of 296 authentic business emails produced in computer-mediated business communication from 7 Chinese international trade enterprises, this paper addresses the language strategy applied in CMC (Computer-mediated Communication) by examining the use of hedges. With the emergence of internet, a wider range of hedges are applied…
Descriptors: Business Communication, International Trade, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication
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Zhang, Yin; Chu, Samuel K. W. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
In recent years, a number of models concerning problem solving systems have been put forward. However, many of them stress on technology and neglect the research of problem solving itself, especially the learning mechanism related to problem solving. In this paper, we analyze the learning mechanism of problem solving, and propose that when…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Information Processing
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Liu, Ming; Li, Yi; Xu, Weiwei; Liu, Li – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Writing an essay is a very important skill for students to master, but a difficult task for them to overcome. It is particularly true for English as Second Language (ESL) students in China. It would be very useful if students could receive timely and effective feedback about their writing. Automatic essay feedback generation is a challenging task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)