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Tong Yang – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
Comprehensive practice education is an integral part of the basic education curriculum, aiming to train students to connect textbook knowledge with real-world life through hands-on manipulations and in-person experiences in off-campus settings. In response to the challenges arising in the current enactment of the comprehensive practice curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Experiential Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Hong, Huang-Yao; Lee, Yuan-Hsuan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
Reading motivation can greatly impact reading comprehension, but it tends to diminish in and beyond elementary school. This study employs knowledge building pedagogy to advance reading motivation and comprehension in an elementary Chinese language arts class. Participants were twenty-four third graders who spent one class period (ie, 40 minutes)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation
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Mingjie Zou; Binhai Ren – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
Flow, a subjective state of optimal engagement and immersion, is characterized by a balance of perceived challenges and skills, interest, attention, and a sense of control (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). Investigating flow in language learning can provide valuable insights into effective learning processes and contexts (Egbert, 2003). Self-regulated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Fung, Chak Him; Poon, Kin Keung – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This study consisted of two stages. In stage A, 38 students were divided randomly into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group received lectures assisted by dynamic geometry software (DGS) and the control group received lectures using chalk and blackboard. The effects of DGS on metacognition and its components were…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Artieda, Gemma; Clements, Bindi – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Wall Street English has built online activities that allow students to record phrases and receive word-level Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) driven pronunciation feedback. Students in language centres in China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Italy (N=2,867) used ASR-Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) activities, and some (N=482) completed a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hee Jin Bang; Kirsten Olander; Erin Lenihan – CALICO Journal, 2020
This study examines the English language learning outcomes of young Chinese L1 children when using a digital self-guided learning tool, ABCmouse "English Language Learning Academy" (ABCmouse ELL), created by Age of Learning, Inc. and designed based on principles of second language research. In a pretest, posttest study design, experiment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
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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
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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
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Yu, Ping; Pan, Yingxin; Li, Chen; Zhang, Zengxiu; Shi, Qin; Chu, Wenpei; Liu, Mingzhuo; Zhu, Zhiting – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Oral production is an important part in English learning. Lack of a language environment with efficient instruction and feedback is a big issue for non-native speakers' English spoken skill improvement. A computer-assisted language learning system can provide many potential benefits to language learners. It allows adequate instructions and instant…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Zhang, Ying; Liu, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2014
English language corpora, containing the widest possible range of varieties of English, provide empirical date concerning language usage, helping to redefine the notion of "standard" to which language learners should aspire. This paper takes as its theoretical framework an approach to corpus-aided discovery learning in which the central…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Ryder, LanHui – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research has shown that simply linking learners from different countries using technology does not automatically bring about learning benefits; instead it frequently ends in tensions that, if not addressed, could potentially hinder learning. Using the lens of Vygotsky-inspired sociocultural theory, activity theory, and Engestrom's activity systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Cultural Awareness, Content Analysis