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Hui-Tzu Hsu; Chih-Cheng Lin – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Behavioural intention (BI) has been predicted using other variables by adopting the technology acceptance model (TAM). However, few studies have examined whether BI can predict learning performance. Objectives: The present study used an extended TAM to investigate whether students' BI is a predictor of their listening learning…
Descriptors: Intention, Vocabulary Development, Handheld Devices, College Students
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van den Berghe, Rianne; de Haas, Mirjam; Oudgenoeg-Paz, Ora; Krahmer, Emiel; Verhagen, Josje; Vogt, Paul; Willemsen, Bram; de Wit, Jan; Leseman, Paul – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
This study investigates the degree to which children anthropomorphize a robot tutor and whether this anthropomorphism relates to their vocabulary learning in a second-language (L2) tutoring intervention. With this aim, an anthropomorphism questionnaire was administered to 5-year-old children (N = 104) twice: prior to and following a seven-session…
Descriptors: Young Children, Robotics, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Lee, Yuan-Hsuan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Implementing English medium instruction (EMI) has become a proliferating measure in higher education to embrace globalization. Nevertheless, university students reported various challenges in taking EMI courses. Objectives: This study investigated the effect of the computer-mediated terminology pretraining on university students' EMI…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Teepe, R. C.; Molenaar, I.; Verhoeven, L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
Preschool children's vocabulary mainly develops verbal through interaction. Therefore, the technology-enhanced storytelling (TES) activity Jeffy's Journey is developed to support parent-child interaction and vocabulary in preschool children. TES entails shared verbal storytelling supported by a story structure and real-time visual, auditory and…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Vocabulary Development, Parent Child Relationship, Control Groups
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Wang, Y.-H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016
The study developed an adaptive computer-assisted reading system and investigated its effect on promoting English as a foreign language learner-readers' contextual vocabulary learning performance. Seventy Taiwanese college students were assigned to two reading groups. Participants in the customised reading group read online English texts, each of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Wible, D.; Liu, A. L.-E.; Tsao, N.-L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The shift towards communicative language teaching in recent decades has created pressure towards individualized pedagogy that arises from the diversity found within any group of learners. One of the richest areas of diversity in target language needs across learners is the lexis of the various discourse communities that different learners are…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Internet
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Lu, M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
Whereas the penetration of mobile phones in Asian countries keeps climbing, little research has explored the application of the short message service (SMS) in second language learning. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of SMS vocabulary lessons of limited lexical information on the small screens of mobile phones. Thirty high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Interviews, Pretests Posttests