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Janine J. Darragh; Gina Mikel Petrie; Stan Pichinevskiy – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Educative Curriculum Materials (ECMs) are teaching materials that have the dual function of providing learning activities to students and providing professional development to the teachers that use them. Answering a call for professional development opportunities, and with input from English teachers in rural Nicaraguan schools, the designers…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Wu, Shaoqun; Li, Liang; Witten, Ian; Yu, Alex – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article reports on a language learning system and a program designed to help students with academic vocabulary in the New Zealand university computer science department. The system is a learner-friendly corpus-based tool that allows students to look up lexico-grammatical patterns of a given word in academic writing. The program, based on a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Science Education, Graduate Students, Academic Language
Ballera, Melvin; Elssaedi, Mosbah Mohamed – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
There is an unrealized potential in the use of socially-oriented pedagogical agent and interactive simulation in e-learning system. In this paper, we investigate the impact of having a socially oriented tutor agent and the incorporation of interactive simulation in e-learning into student performances, perceptions and experiences for non-native…
Descriptors: Simulation, Foreign Countries, Computer Science, Electronic Learning
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Tsai, Shu-chiao – Computers & Education, 2009
This study reports on the development of ESP (English for specific purposes) courseware for semiconductor technology and its integration as a "silent partner" into instruction. This kind of team-teaching could help overcome current problems encountered in developing ESP in Taiwan. The content of the material under discussion includes…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes
Berney, Tomi D.; Alvarez, Rosalyn – 1990
In the 1988-89 school year, Bilingualism in the Computer Age completed its final year of instruction at Morris High School in the Bronx. The project provided bilingual instructional and support services to 240 Spanish-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP) and utilized computers to develop students' English skills and native…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Cultural Awareness
Berney, Tomi D.; Keyes, Jose L. – 1990
The Computer Writing Skills for Limited English Proficient Students (Project COMPUGRAFIA.LEP), bilingual special education classes totalling 375 Spanish-speaking students at 10 elementary schools in the Bronx, is evaluated. The project proposed to assist site teachers in developing appropriate lesson plans and effective teaching techniques and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Computer Science Education, Elementary Education