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Hung, Shao-Ting Alan; Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The current study explored how the participation in multimodal videoconferencing sessions affected one of the affective factors: willingness to communicate (WTC) in second language learning. Participants from the experimental group took part in three 30-minute communication tasks via videoconferencing that included interactions in textual, audio,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Videoconferencing
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Shih-Chieh Chien – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Universities
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Chen, I-Jung; Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yen, Jung-Chuan – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study investigated the effects of simultaneous written text on the comprehension of spoken English as a foreign language, when the text is presented with the aid of a personal digital assistant (PDA) as a learning tool. Eighty-seven university students majoring in applied foreign languages were randomly assigned to either listening with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Written Language
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Chiung, Wi-vun Taiffalo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
University students in Taiwan evaluated seven prepared Taibun reading samples on six characteristic scales. Results reveal that Han character-only orthography received the highest rating, Han-Roman mixed received the second highest, and Roman-only received the lowest.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Cornberg, David – 1999
This study examined first exposures to oral and written English from ages 1-16 years, surveying 212 Ming Chuan University (Taiwan) students. The survey asked about the language spoken at home; age at and context of hearing, reading, writing, and speaking the first English word; experiences with conversations in English; and problems learning…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Liaw, Meei-Ling – 1996
A study investigated the communication strategies used by students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in electronic mail interactions with native speakers of English. Subjects were 22 university students in Taiwan paired with a like number of pre-service EFL teacher trainees in the United States. The discourse of 87 e-mail entries by the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis