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Evaluating a Mobile Instant Messaging Tool for Efficient Large-Class Speaking Instruction
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Galip Kartal – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The overarching goal of this design-based research was to explore WhatsApp's potential for facilitating and supporting speaking and pronunciation instruction in an EFL large-class speaking course. More specifically, this paper explored the perceived learning outcomes of WhatsApp-supported pedagogy in large English-speaking classes. Ninety-nine…
Descriptors: Computer Software, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Exploring Repeated Captioning Viewing as a Way to Promote Vocabulary Learning: Time Lag between Repetitions and Learner Factors
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Carmen Muñoz; Anastasia Pattemore; Daniela Avello – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new…
Descriptors: Captions, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Computer-Aided Feedback on the Pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese Tones: Using Praat to Promote Multimedia Foreign Language Learning
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Mengtian Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This article discusses whether digital visual and audio feedback in learners' own voices improves their perception and production of lexical tones in Chinese as a foreign language. Forty-four beginners participated in a four-week training focused on the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese tones at the word level. Half received digital feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
'Look, I Can Speak Correctly': Learning Vocabulary and Pronunciation through Websites Equipped with Automatic Speech Recognition Technology
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Muzakki Bashori; Roeland van Hout; Helmer Strik; Catia Cucchiarini – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Speaking skills generally receive little attention in traditional English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, and this is especially the case in secondary education in Indonesia. A vocabulary deficit and poor pronunciation skills hinder learners in their efforts to improve speaking proficiency. In the present study, we investigated the effects…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment, Video Technology
Using AR Filters in L2 Pronunciation Training: Practice, Perfection, and Willingness to Share
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Jingjing Zhu; Xi Zhang; Jian Li – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Traditional L2 pronunciation teaching puts too much emphasis on explicit phonological knowledge ('knowing that') rather than on procedural knowledge ('knowing how'). The advancement of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) offers new opportunities for L2 learners to proceduralize their declarative articulatory knowledge into production skills…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Impact of a Robot and Tangible Object (R&T) Integrated Learning System on Elementary EFL Learners' English Pronunciation and Willingness to Communicate
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Wen-Min Hsieh; Hui-Chin Yeh; Nian-Shing Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Research on how the use of social robots helps improve English as Foreign Language (EFL) young learners' pronunciation and willingness to communicate (WTC) is understudied. This study developed a robot and tangible objects (R&T) learning system and examined its impact on elementary EFL learner's English pronunciation and WTC. The R&T…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Interactive Digital Media Assignments: Effects on EFL Learners' Overall and Micro-Level Oral Language Skills
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Marwa F. Hafour – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Owing to the plethora of user-friendly audio/video creation and editing applications as well as free full-featured hosting platforms, videoing and sharing has become a lifestyle of today's students. Utilizing these spontaneous practices, the current study examined the effects of digital media assignments (DMAs) and accompanying asynchronous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology