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Wang, Qiao – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study searched for open-source semantic similarity tools and evaluated their effectiveness in automated content scoring of fact-based essays written by English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. Fifty writing samples under a fact-based writing task from an academic English course in a Japanese university were collected and a gold standard…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Scoring
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Dhillon, Sundeep; Murray, Neil – Education Sciences, 2021
The near universal use of electronic learning (e-learning) in higher education (HE) today requires that students and teachers are equipped with the requisite digital literacy skills. The small-scale pilot study we report on here explored the views and experiences of EAP (English for Academic Purposes) teachers regarding their development of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Language Teachers, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Xue, Sijia; Churchill, Daniel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The educational potential of mobile and social media technologies in combination is becoming increasingly salient with the advance of modern technology. However, there is a dearth in the research on educational use of mobile social media for language learning. This study adopted a qualitative single case study approach to investigate a language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Shi, Zhan; Liu, Fengkai; Lai, Chun; Jin, Tan – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) systems have been found to enhance the accuracy, readability, and cohesion of writing responses (Stevenson & Phakiti, 2019). Previous research indicates that individual learners may have difficulty utilizing content-based AWE feedback and collaborative processing of feedback might help to cope with this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Accuracy
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Wu, Zhiwei; Li, Xinqiang – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
This article reports on a study examining the extent to which pedagogical activities can affect students' cosmopolitan communicative competence (CCC) through online transnational encounters. A total of 58 students from a Hong Kong university and 25 students from an American university were divided into 25 transnational groups. They communicated…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication
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Khadimally, Seda – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
Guided by the principles of the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) instructional design (ID) model, this creative instructional product presents a learning/teaching approach that is fundamentally constructivist. For the purposes of designing effective instruction in an academic preparation course, a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Cooperative Planning, English (Second Language)