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Discovering Collocations via Data-Driven Learning in L2 Writing
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Wu, Yi-ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Adopting the approaches of "pattern hunting" and "pattern refining" (Kennedy & Miceli, 2001, 2010, 2017), this study investigates how seven freshman English students from Taiwan used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to discover collocation patterns for 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs and new ideas about…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Helping Taiwanese Graduate Students Help Themselves: Applying Corpora to Industrial Management English as a Foreign Language Academic Reading and Writing
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Reynolds, Barry Lee – Computers in the Schools, 2015
Lack of knowledge in the conventional use of vocabulary and multiword patterns in one's respective field of expertise causes Taiwanese students to produce academic writing that is markedly "non-nativelike." This is because Taiwanese students are first and foremost second language readers and often have difficulty "picking up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Academic Discourse, Reading
The Relations between Students' Anxiety and Interest in Playing an Online Game
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Hsu, Tsui-Fang; Chen, Yu-Ju – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
In this modern and technologically dependent society, people seek to improve human performance, get higher productivity and increase user satisfaction with technologies. In Chinese society, Chinese Idiom learning plays an important role in vocabulary learning which cultural and social functions are involved. Therefore, an online game named…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Least Squares Statistics, Vocabulary Development
Differences in the Nature of Discussion between Peer Response Sessions Conducted on Networked Computers and Those Conducted in the Traditional Face-to-Face Situation.
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Huang, Su-Yueh – 1998
This study investigated the nature of students' discussion in peer response sessions in an English-as-a-Second-Language composition class in Taiwan. Subjects were 17 university students, divided into four writing groups. Half of the 16 peer response sessions were computer-mediated (CM), the other half in face-to-face interaction (FF). Analysis of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis