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Guichon, Nicolas – ReCALL, 2019
This exploratory study focuses on international students' usage of digital tools in order to understand what role such tools play in the transition to their new academic environments and what learning opportunities they provide. Not only do digital tools accompany international students' social, cultural, and linguistic transitions as they move to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Grosbois, Muriel – ReCALL, 2011
Despite the spread of reliable desktop audio and videoconferencing facilities, some CMC-based projects still rely on asynchronous written environments, if only because of the temporal constraints of synchronicity (Guichon, 2009; Develotte, Guichon & Vincent, 2010). Yet speaking is usually the skill students most need to improve when learning a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Interlanguage, Native Speakers
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Vincent-Durroux, Laurence; Poussard, Cecile; Lavaur, Jean-Marc; Aparicio, Xavier – ReCALL, 2011
French learners at university meet difficulties in the comprehension of oral English. Being in a formal context of language learning, they need to develop language awareness to compensate for insufficient exposure to the English language. To meet the students' needs, data was collected in order to pinpoint the main errors made by French learners…
Descriptors: Phonology, Metalinguistics, Syntax, Oral Language
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Whyte, Shona – ReCALL, 2011
This qualitative study investigates the relationship between learning opportunities and teacher cognition in the context of a videoconferencing (VC) project for foreign languages (FL) in French primary schools. Six generalist primary teachers were followed throughout the initial six-month stage of the initiative, and data were collected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
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Rivens Mompean, Annick – ReCALL, 2010
The use of a blog as a pedagogical aid for the learning of foreign languages is gaining support among teachers' communities (Soubrie, 2006; Tome, 2007) as it can help students develop online interactions and authentic productions. The current study is analysing the use of such a multimedia setting in a group of Master's students in France,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Writing Processes
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Boulton, Alex – ReCALL, 2009
The potential for corpora in language learning has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years, including in the form of data-driven learning (DDL). Careful not to appear to over-promote the field, enthusiasts have urged caution in its application, in particular with regard to lower-level learners, and have argued that extensive…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education
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Brudermann, Cedric – ReCALL, 2010
This paper deals with the implementation of an "online pedagogical assistant" in a blended learning device for English for Special Purposes (ESP) students in a French university (UPMC, Paris VI). As it is now, it comprises a customized website designed to serve as a guide through the development of the students' work. The architecture of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classification, Blended Learning, English for Special Purposes
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Raby, Francoise – ReCALL, 2007
This study was carried out in a language centre, in French higher education. Teachers and researchers had contrived a pedagogical system labeled guided autonomy which combined class attendance in groups and self-study in the self-study room. This kind of autonomous and technologically enhanced learning system will be referred to as CAALL (Computer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology