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Lenkaitis, Chesla Ann – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study qualitatively and quantitatively investigated synchronous (real-time) computer-mediated communication (SCMC), via Zoom (https://zoom.us) videoconferencing, to explore second language (L2) learning and learner autonomy. Twenty-five L2 Spanish participants (n = 25) from the same university utilized SCMC over a 6-week implementation…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Videoconferencing, Second Language Learning, Personal Autonomy
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Bang, Hee Jin – High School Journal, 2012
This study examines the homework practices of eight teachers working in a high school designed to serve newcomer immigrant students. Individual structured interviews were conducted in which teachers working in an innovative setting explained their purposes of assigning homework, their beliefs about factors affecting their students' homework…
Descriptors: Homework, Interviews, Immigrants, High Schools
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Llopis-García, Reyes – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
This paper presents the description of an email Tandem exchange project conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010. There were several goals to this project: to help improve students' writing skills; to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Electronic Mail, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
National Writing Project (NJ1), 2011
This report presents stories of six teachers who believe in the power and promise of immigrant students and English language learners. Their stories begin to help readers understand the assets these groups of students bring to classrooms, the challenges they--both students and teachers--face, and the role that teachers and schools play in their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Differences