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Indrastyawati, Cinthya; Wu, Ying-Tien; Sugito – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The purposes of this study are to understand the effects of using Synchronous Discussion and Reflection System (SDRS) platform in the elementary students' perception of the learning environment and students' cognitive outcomes regarding the Genetically Modified Food (GMF). A total of 22 students from Elementary School in Taichung Taiwan joined…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Educational Environment
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
The Internet has offered many opportunities for interactions and participation. The current study positioned YouTube as a possible affinity space (Gee, 2003, 2004) for students to showcase their personal talents. The participants were recruited from a group of senior students in a Taiwanese university who volunteered to participate in this study.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hsu, Ting-Chia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study examines four elements of learner motivation, attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction, in an EFL speaking course that uses the computer mediated communication (CMC) tool Google Hangouts. The study found that a preparatory concept mapping task before the CMC sessions improved students' perceived attention, relevance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation
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Chen, Ching-Huei – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2014
The present study sought to investigate how to enhance students' well- and ill-structured problem-solving skills and increase productive engagement in computer-mediated communication with the assistance of external prompts, namely procedural and reflection. Thirty-three graduate students were randomly assigned to two conditions: procedural and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Problem Solving, Cues, Graduate Students
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Liang, Chaoyun; Tseng, Kuo-Hung; Tseng, Ju-Shih; Chen, To-Yu – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The effect of creating blog-based portfolios on knowledge management (KM) abilities among university students was examined in the present study. Participants included 43 students majoring in Multimedia and Game Science at a University in Taiwan. Students spent nine weeks creating their personal portfolios by using a blog. The "t"-test…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Knowledge Management, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Yu-Chih; Yang, Fang-Ying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
The present study integrates service learning into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) speaking class using Web 2.0 tools--YouTube and Facebook--as platforms. Fourteen undergraduate students participated in the study. The purpose of the service-learning project was to link service learning with oral communication training in an EFL speaking class…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Web 2.0 Technologies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Eslami, Zohreh R. – TESL-EJ, 2011
In this paper I discuss a study that involved incorporating instructional pragmatics into an ESL Methodology course. Graduate students who were taking an ESL Methodology course were required to read the literature on interlanguage and instructional pragmatics and teach requestive speech act strategies to Taiwanese EFL students through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students
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Liu, Mei-hui – Computers & Education, 2012
This study investigated the application of an online videocase discussion community into fostering preservice and inservice EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' professional development in Taiwan. This investigation further revealed the nature and development of discussion discourse and the participating teachers' perceptions of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Yang, Shih-Hsien – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Using the theories of critical reflection and community of practice, the aim of this paper was to explore the use of blogs as a reflective platform in the training processes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student teachers, who were learning to teach English for future employment in Taiwan. They made use of blogs as a platform to critically…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice
Liaw, En-Chong – Online Submission, 2009
This study integrates the purposes of communication, i.e. in-class and on-line discussions, with problem solving skills in the process of learning professional knowledge of pre-service teachers. It attempts to foster both comprehension of professional knowledge and the attitude of contextualizing knowledge with situational factors. More…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Learning Processes