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Review of Doctoral Research in Second-Language Teaching and Learning in England (2006)
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Marsden, Emma; Graham, Suzanne – Language Teaching, 2009
Using the British "Index to Theses", we found forty-seven Ph.D.s relating to second and foreign language learning and/or teaching defended in English universities in 2006. Objective criteria led us to fourteen theses which had investigated both teaching and learning. Over half of these adopted a process-product research design with the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Second Language Learning, Validity, Foreign Countries
Computer-Based Materials: A Study of Learner Autonomy and Strategies
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Figura, Klaudia; Jarvis, Huw – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper reports on a study which examines the extent to which specified cognitive, social, and metacognitive strategies, are used by language students when working with computer-based materials (CBMs), in self-study contexts outside of the language classroom; particularly in a self-access centre (SAC). Data were collected using questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language), Data Collection
Social Interaction and Learning Using Micro-PROLOG.
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Colbourn, Christopher J.; Light, P. H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1987
Describes study which investigated peer interaction in relation to microcomputer use with 11- and 12-year-old children in a comprehensive secondary school in England. Highlights include the use of micro-PROLOG, a questionnaire to test students' attitudes towards computers, gender differences, and pretest and posttest results. (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries
Toward User Models for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Learning: An Empirical Study.
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Ford, Nigel; Ford, Rosalind – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1994
Thirty postgraduate librarianship students learned about PRECIS indexing using a system that responds as flexibly and intelligently as a human expert to natural language queries. Interactions were logged and analyzed. The evidence obtained supports the notion that individuals employ distinct strategies when interacting with information sources in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries