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Hui-Chin Yeh; Grace Yue Qi; Shih-hsien Yang – Distance Education, 2024
Guided by the framework of internationalization at home (IaH), this study employed a mixed-methods approach investigating the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among a group of tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan, facilitated through the means of telecollaboration. The telecollaboration…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence
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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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Tseng, Chingyi; Huh, Keun – English Language Teaching, 2016
The purposes of this study were to explore the effect of dialogic activities on EFL students' utterances development by engaging with others, as well as the students' perceptions in the dialogic learning environment. The theoretical framework guiding this inquiry consists of the on-site lecture from the instructor and voice board feedback from the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Adult Students, Educational Environment, Second Language Learning
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Teng, Daniel Chia-En; Chen, Nian-Shing; Kinshuk; Leo, Tommaso – Computers & Education, 2012
The development of computer-mediated communication enables teaching and learning to take place across geographical boundaries. An online synchronous learning environment with cyber face-to-face features affords students the sense of learning together online. This study reports a novel design of organizing a 16-week seminar for doctoral students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Ko, Chao-Jung – ReCALL, 2012
This study adopts a case study approach to investigate the impacts of synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) learning environments on learners' perception of social presence. The participants were twelve French as a foreign language (FFL) beginners in a Taiwanese university. Divided into three groups, they conducted some tasks in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Novices
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Yang, Yu-Fen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Previous studies have emphasized the relationship between students' engagement and learning performance, and yet the context in which students and the teacher interact to engage each other has been ignored. In order to engage college students who are learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in the context of a big class, this study developed a…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Undergraduate Students, Educational Environment, Teaching Assistants
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Wu, Cheng-Chih; Lai, Chin-Yuan – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
This paper reports our implementation and evaluation of a wireless handheld learning environment used to support a clinical nursing practicum course. The learning environment was designed so that nursing students could use handhelds for recording information, organizing ideas, assessing patients, and also for interaction and collaboration with…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Practicums, Patients
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Liu, C.-C.; Tao, S.-Y.; Nee, J.-N. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2008
The internet has been widely used to promote collaborative learning among students. However, students do not always have access to the system, leading to doubt in the interaction among the students, and reducing the effectiveness of collaborative learning, since the web-based collaborative learning environment relies entirely on the availability…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Internet
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Hsu, Jung-Lung; Tretiakov, Alexei; Chou, Huey-Wen; Lee, Ching-Yuan – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Theory of distributed cognition unveils the answer to what constitute distributed cognition. However, how the distributed cognition in web-based learning environment spreads out still remains a black box. This study sought to deepen our understanding on how learners' knowledge disseminates online by examining the impacts of three kinds of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Cognitive Processes
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Bonk, Curtis J.; Lee, Mimi Miyoung; Kim, Nari; Lin, Meng-Fen Grace – Internet and Higher Education, 2009
Wikis have the potential to change learning environments from traditional knowledge transmission models to knowledge transformative ones where students generate, share, and reshape knowledge. In this three-part study, graduate students created wikibooks across institutional settings. One of these projects extended to universities in China, Taiwan,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Graduate Students, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Yang, Stephen J. H. – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
Recent progress in wireless and sensor technologies has lead to a new development of learning environments, called context-aware ubiquitous learning environment, which is able to sense the situation of learners and provide adaptive supports. Many researchers have been investigating the development of such new learning environments; nevertheless,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Criteria, Educational Environment
Tyan, Nay-ching Nancy; Hong, Frank Min-chow – 1998
A computer-mediated communication (CMC) device, Virtual Classroom & Virtual Corporation System (VICTORY) was developed and integrated into a Taiwan higher education classroom with the aim of providing a constructive learning environment where high-quality instructional interactions and true collaboration existed among learners. Individual…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning