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Cultivating Self-Directed Learning Abilities in K-12 Students through Immersive Online Virtual Tours
Rustam Shadiev; Suping Yi; Fahriye Altinay – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The present study employed virtual reality technology to develop online learning environments that facilitated student cultural and self-directed learning. Junior high school participants engaged in creating virtual tours, sharing them with peers online, and implementing self-directed learning strategies. A one-group posttest-only design was…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Computer Simulation, Tourism, Technology Uses in Education
Shulin Yu; Yiran Zhang; Chunhong Liu; Icy Lee – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Research on second language (L2) writing tends to focus much more on student learning of writing than teachers' teaching and learning of the teaching of writing. While a few studies have considered the influence of formal education on teachers' L2 writing instruction, such as by examining the changes in teacher beliefs and practices across one…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Private Education
Lifen, He; Junying, Yong – English Language Teaching, 2016
Perception is the reconstruction and interaction between the new information and prior knowledge in mind or in the process of internalization about the new information. It has three teaching procedures: First, teachers elicit the learners to acquire text meaning. Second, teachers create situation in practical teaching. Third, learners comprehend…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Rao, Zhenhui – Language Learning Journal, 2016
The research reported here investigated the relationship between students' use of language learning strategies and their English proficiency, and then interpreted the data from two models in information-processing theory. Results showed that the students' English proficiency significantly affected their use of learning strategies, with high-level…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies
Li, Jia – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This article reports on a case study that investigates the learning preferences and strategies of Chinese students learning English as a second language (ESL) in Canadian school settings. It focuses on the interaction between second language (L2) learning methods that the students have adopted from their previous learning experience in China and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Min, Qiusha; Wang, Zhifeng; Liu, Neng – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Recently, there has been a rapidly growing trend in non-English-speaking countries for English to be adopted as the medium of instruction in higher education. Consequently, it has become necessary to conduct research that will guide lecturers in effectively adopting (EMI) on campus. This paper presents a blended learning strategy that integrates a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction
Lin, Zheng – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2012
This paper is based on a qualitative inquiry that investigated the role of teachers' mediation in three different modes of coding in a kindergarten foreign language classroom in China (i.e. L2-coded intralinguistic mediation, L1-coded cross-lingual mediation, and L2-and-L1-mixed mediation). Through an exploratory examination of the varying effects…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Ma, Jingjing – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
Approaching peer review from a process and contextualized perspective, this exploratory case study investigates two Chinese EFL learners' decision-making patterns while evaluating peers' texts in an online peer review and factors influencing these patterns. Detailed qualitative case study data were collected through think-aloud protocols,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Observation, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning

Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
Examines the relation between background knowledge and second language (L2) proficiency in L2 reading performance in two groups of university learners of English, one from mainland China and one from Hong Kong. Results show a strong cultural effect on reading comprehension, but not on post-intermediate readers. Findings have implications for…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Higher Education

Chiang, Chung Shing; Dunkel, Patricia – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Explores the effects of speech modification, prior knowledge, and listening proficiency on listening comprehension. Results show significant interactions between speech modification and listening proficiency and between prior knowledge and test type. The authors discuss the implications for teaching and testing of listening comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency