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Tanaka, Hiroya; Ohnishi, Akio; Urano, Ken; Ozawa, Shinya; Nakanishi, Daisuke – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper reports on the learning framework integrating a web e-portfolio and two mobile applications. It also reports on a preliminary study on how learners used different systems or materials to study for vocabulary tests in a particular general English course at a Japanese university, and how they recognized the usefulness of each system and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Montaner-Villalba, Salvador – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This research focuses on vocabulary acquisition in foreign language learning. The latest trends of teaching as well as the huge advance of technology allow teachers to utilize online and mobile applications through diverse apps. This quasi-experimental design research investigated Quizlet, in its mobile version, on vocabulary acquisition in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Wang, X. Christine; Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming Ming – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
To understand young children's experience with multimodal digital texts, we investigated how 53 kindergarteners' (ages 5-6) buddy reading behaviors (reading mode selection, sequential/non-sequential reading, hotspot use, use of modalities, use of monitoring) were related to their individual comprehension outcomes (prompted retelling,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Cooperative Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Bowles, Michael – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
According to research findings, learners who are about to commence an undergraduate degree course with English as the medium of instruction (EMI), require a minimum English vocabulary size in order to decode and comprehend the academic texts that they have to read (Hazenberg and Hulstijn, 1996; Staehr, 2008; Laufer and Ravenhorst-Kalovski, 2010;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affordances, Electronic Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Berns, Anke; Palomo-Duarte, Manuel; Dodero, Juan Manuel; Ruiz-Ladrón, Juan Miguel; Márquez, Andrea Calderón – Research-publishing.net, 2015
In the last two decades there have been many attempts to integrate all kinds of mobile devices and apps to support formal as well as informal learning processes. However, most of the available apps still support mainly individual learning, using mobile devices to deliver content rather than providing learners with the opportunity to interact with…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Second Language Instruction
Böhm, Stephan; Constantine, Georges Philip – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
The mobility of both the device and the learner will determine how mobile learning takes place. Mobile learning offers new educational opportunities that allow for autonomous, personalized and context aware learning. This paper focuses on contextualized features for mobile language learning apps. Context-awareness is seen as a particularly…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Telecommunications
Ishikawa, Yasushige; Smith, Craig; Kondo, Mutsumi; Akano, Ichiro; Maher, Kate; Wada, Norihisa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
This paper reports on the use of an English-language reading practice application for an android tablet computer operating system with students who are not native speakers of English. The application materials for vocabulary learning in reading-passage contexts were created to include words from a database of low-frequency and technical noun-verb…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Jackson, T. Wendell; Clegg, J. Halvor – 1988
Previous research on Spanish vocabulary for second language instruction has focused primarily on word frequency in a variety of print sources, and has the added disadvantages of being outdated and having too complex a format. A new, computer-based analysis of spoken Spanish from different dialect regions of the world was undertaken to provide more…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Oriented Programs, Dialects, Form Classes (Languages)