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Díez, Mario Tomé; Richters, Marlisa Amanda – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
It is essential for foreign language learners to have adequate opportunities for speaking in order to enhance the acquisition of oral communicative competence. Although research over the last few years has dealt with the potential of podcasting for the development of oral competencies, little has been done towards its application in the…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stelea, Sorina; Girón-García, Carolina – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
The present study has a double purpose: firstly, to evaluate the effect of JClic on students' performance in the use of Simple Present Perfect in English and secondly, to establish the impact of the use of JClic on students' engagement and motivation. In other words, this research seeks to find out if student engagement and motivation in the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Magal-Royo, Teresa; de Siqueira Rocha, Jose Macario; Alvarez, Miguel Fernandez – Computers & Education, 2010
Although much has been said about ergonomics in interface and in computer tools and interface design, very few articles in major journals have addressed this topic in relation to language testing. This article describes an experiment carried out at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in which 27 Media and Communication students provided…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Internet
Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Magal-Royo, Teresa; Lopez, Jose Luis Gimenez – Online Submission, 2011
As the use of mobile learning educational applications has become more common anywhere in the world, new concerns have appeared in the classroom, human interaction in software engineering and ergonomics. new tests of foreign languages for a number of purposes have become more and more common recently. However, studies interrelating language tests…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Language Tests, Computer Software
Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Magal Royo, Teresa; Enriquez Carrasco, Emilia – Online Submission, 2010
This paper presents the results of writing processing among 260 high school senior students, their degree of satisfaction using the new trial version of the Computer Based University Entrance Examination in Spain and their degree of motivation towards written online test tasks. Currently, this is one of the closing studies to verify whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, High Stakes Tests, Student Motivation
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Breeze, Ruth – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
The programs WordSmith and VocabProfile were used to research lexical differences between essays written in English by Spanish undergraduates and a set of essays independently judged as being of TWE grade 6 standard. The results indicated that writing by this group of students was generally characterised by low lexical variation, a preponderance…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Undergraduate Students, Essays, Language Variation