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Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2021
Teaching English as a Foreign Language from a New Literacy Perspective (2nd edition) is intended to be both a guide for EFL student teachers (i.e. prospective teachers of English enrolled in pre-service EFL teacher education programmes provided by faculties of education at the undergraduate level), and a resource book for EFL teacher educators…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Robson, James; Holgate, Ben; Randhawa, Ashmita – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2021
This short report is a summary of the findings from "Storycraft: The Importance of Narrative and Narrative Skills in Business." This ground-breaking report reveals how prominent business leaders in the United Kingdom view and utilise narrative as an integral part of doing business. Based on extensive interviews with 34 business leaders,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Business, Job Skills
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Kaya, Haldun – Teaching English with Technology, 2015
The constructivist approach in learning a foreign language has been receiving a great deal of attention over the last years due to its tenets, which fully comply with the principles of the effective language learning environment. Taking the foundations of constructivist pedagogy into consideration, the most innovative attempt that English language…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Constructivism (Learning), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Razagifard, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
This paper reports on a study investigating the potential effect of synchronous and asynchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) on oral fluency development of second-language (L2) learners. Sixty-three intermediate learners of English were randomly assigned to one of three groups (two experimental groups and one control group),…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, English (Second Language)
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Gee, James Paul – Educational Forum, 2012
This article argues that both traditional literacy (reading and writing print) and new digital literacies (for example, playing video games) come in two grades or forms, one of which can lead to success in the modern world and one of which is less likely to do so. In both cases, the role of "academic" or "specialist" language is crucial in…
Descriptors: Literacy, Video Games, Oral Language, Academic Discourse
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Auer, Peter – Language Sciences, 2009
One fundamental difference between spoken and written language has to do with the "linearity" of speaking in time, in that the temporal structure of speaking is inherently the outcome of an interactive process between speaker and listener. But despite the status of "linearity" as one of Saussure's fundamental principles, in practice little more…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Beginning Reading, Syntax, Written Language
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Shamsudin, Sarimah; Nesi, Hilary – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2006
This paper will describe an ESP approach to the design and implementation of computer-mediated communication (CMC) tasks for computer science students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and discuss the effectiveness of the chat feature of Windows NetMeeting as a tool for developing specified language skills. CMC tasks were set within a programme of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, English for Special Purposes, Oral Language
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Lee, Cheol-Houn – Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 1999
Discusses computer-mediated communication (CMC) and computer-assisted language learning and explains how second language learners become communicatively fluent through a text-based CMC setting. Highlights include how asynchronous and synchronous CMC can support learners' cognitive processes; and models for combining text-based CMC with spoken…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Simulation