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Adam Forrester – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
This paper covers the work in progress of an e-platform being developed for language enhancement at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong. There is an actual or perceived concern about the English and Chinese language ability of undergraduate students at certain universities in Hong Kong. One reason for this is that a significant proportion of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Mohammed-Ahmed, Hamid – Applied Language Learning, 2021
Multimodal approaches to second-language learning can boost language proficiency (Ajayi, 2009) by providing foreign-language learners with greater exposure to the target language's culture, enabling multiple-literacy competencies in the target language, and appealing to students' learning preferences. This article aims to present a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Schenker, Theresa – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
This article describes an advanced German course focusing on the German fairy-tale tradition. Course components are summarized and the themes and selected fairy tales for each unit are outlined. Additionally, 12 creative assignments are explained that were designed to foster students' engagement with the language and content of the fairy tales.…
Descriptors: Fairy Tales, Advanced Courses, German, Second Language Learning
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Panduangkaew, Ratiporn – rEFLections, 2018
As a number of researchers in Thailand have investigated the use of vocabulary learning strategies by Thai learners at all levels, it is now worth specifically looking at how undergraduates learn new vocabulary words since these learners are considered more mature and might have learned more strategies compared to those with lower levels of…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Sánchez, María José Naranjo; Garcia, Mª Mercedes Rico; Santamaría, Héctor Sánchez; Serrat, Jesús Salguero – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
With the recent emergence of the interactive TV, the iTV starts to gain ground as a learning social media forgotten in the last decades due to previously existing applications (smart phones, tablets, laptops) that surpassed it. The TV has always been used as a means of transmission and family conciliatory, but, at the same time, the necessary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interactive Video, Social Media
Akbas, Erdem; Hatipoglu, Çiler – Online Submission, 2018
It is now commonly accepted that academic discourses tend to provide venues for participants to interact where the producer needs to display an awareness of the audience, and metadiscourse (MD) is the set of tools enabling the involved parties to establish relationships. MD strategies allow writers to project themselves into their work, signal…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Audience Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Nielsen, Helle Lykke – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
Foreign language teachers can benefit substantially from the notions of curation and nudging when scaffolding CLIL activities on the internet. This article shows how these principles can be integrated into CLILstore, a free multimedia-rich learning tool with seamless access to online dictionaries, and presents feedback from first and second year…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction