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Eisenlauer, Volker; Sosa, Diana – Designs for Learning, 2022
This article explores relevant conceptual frameworks and design principles for the planning and implementation of a virtual reality (VR) learning environment in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. The primary focus is on what knowledge teachers need to acquire when designing and implementing a spherical video-based training world that…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Church, Jessica A.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Fletcher, Jack M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
To learn to read, the brain must repurpose neural systems for oral language and visual processing to mediate written language. We begin with a description of computational models for how alphabetic written language is processed. Next, we explain the roles of a dorsal sublexical system in the brain that relates print and speech, a ventral lexical…
Descriptors: Genetics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Processes, Oral Language
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Ondarra, Kristi Jauregi – Research-publishing.net, 2019
When organising TeleCollaboration (TC) encounters at primary or secondary schools, especially technological and organisational complexity, alongside pedagogical issues, plays an essential role in the degree of success of the exchanges. Within the European TeCoLa project, pilot experiences have been organised using innovative but 'simple'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Feraria, Paulette J. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2018
This paper explores radio play as an alternative space for learning language and literacy for Jamaican students labeled as 'at-risk' learners. Through the creation of a make-believe radio station in the classroom, students developed oral language skills as a necessary precursor for social literacy. They connected reading and writing activities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Radio, Secondary School Students
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
This article proposes a model for teaching interpreting for tourism purposes. It shows the aims of the model, interpreting materials, training strategies, training environment and assessment techniques. The model aims to train students to interpret in English with or without prior preparation or knowledge of the topic and without taking or reading…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Tourism, Multimedia Instruction
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Tarnopolsky, Oleg – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2015
The article discusses the implementation of the "constructivist approach" in ESP teaching to university students. This approach creates opportunities for students to "construct" their own target language communication skills meant for use in their professional intercourse. The way of achieving such an effect can be seen in…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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Polisca, Elena – Language Learning Journal, 2011
This article seeks to assess the impact of V-Pal (Virtual Partnerships for All Languages) on the student language learning experience within a conventional UK higher education (HE) curriculum. V-Pal is an innovative computer-mediated language scheme, based on a reciprocal, distance-learning language project, run by the University of Manchester in…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Tutors
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Van Moere, Alistair; Suzuki, Masanori; Downey, Ryan; Cheng, Jian – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper discusses the development of an assessment to satisfy the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Language Proficiency Requirements. The Versant Aviation English Test utilizes speech recognition technology and a computerized testing platform, such that test administration and scoring are fully automated. Developed in…
Descriptors: Scoring, Test Construction, Language Proficiency, Standards
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Hoppe, Christine – French Review, 1987
Simulation of a situation (e.g., a hotel experience) emphasizing setting, role, and mood, helps students of intermediate French to use role play and to understand the causative structure in dialogue. (CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Clues, Dialogs (Language)
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Harless, William G.; Zier, Marcia A.; Duncan, Robert C. – CALICO Journal, 1999
Describes the development of a speech-activated multimedia system for foreign-language training. The model allows students to engage native speakers on CD-ROM in lengthy face-to-face dialogs using natural spoken language. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Dialogs (Language), Interactive Video, Multimedia Instruction
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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
Schwartz, Arthur H. – 1996
The Technology Enhanced Accent Modification (TEAM) project created multimedia software to improve the oral proficiency of international teaching assistants (ITAs). Objectives were to: (1) develop reliable accent modification software that would operate on computers found at most colleges; (2) determine how TEAM-based accent modification…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Curriculum Development, Dialects
Tomlin, Russell S.; Douglas, Sarah A. – 1989
This project developed computer-based language teaching software to assist beginning second language learners develop listening comprehension skills. Students interact with computer-based simulations of real world problems, which require their understanding of oral language provided by the computer system. The project embraced a communicative…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Millward, Robert E.; Gerlach, Gail J. – 1989
The goal of the Pre Teacher Assessment Center is to give college sophomores a diagnostic assessment of their potential teaching skills across 13 skill dimensions felt to be prerequisites for teaching. The pre teacher assessment provides students with detailed information about potential teaching strengths and weaknesses and helps remediate…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Higher Education