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Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2016
The current study aimed to investigate language students' use of print and electronic resources for their research papers required in research techniques class, focusing on which reading strategies they used while reading these resources. The participants of the study were 90 sophomore students enrolled in the research techniques class offered at…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing, Use Studies
Abdelhafez, Hanan A.; Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2015
This paper reports a research study that sought investigating Assiut University College of Education (AUCOE) EFL student teachers' awareness and use of online authentic materials on the basis of their actual language leaning needs, and how this relates to their language learning motivation. To accomplish this, a mixed-method research methodology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S.; Mansour, Marian M. – Online Submission, 2015
This paper reports on an experimental research study that aimed at investigating the effectiveness of employing a virtual task-based situated language learning (TBSLL) environment mediated by Second Life (SL) in developing EFL student teachers' pragmatic writing skills and their technological self-efficacy. To reach this goal, a control-only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2014
At an age marked by the emergence of new literacies, vast technological developments, and social networking practices, language is currently approached from a pragmatic perspective that recognises its functional use to meet realistic communicative goals. Taking this into account, the present study sought to identify the functional writing skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Functional Literacy, Writing Skills
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Sahin, Ahmet – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of the study is to question the current state of ICT and to determine the role of it in schools via teachers' perspectives. The study is a qualitative study and was designed as a phenomenological research. A semi-structured interview form was used to collect the data. The participants were selected in accordance with the criterion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Teacher Attitudes
Berta, Michael Raymond – Online Submission, 2013
In the Fall 2010 semester, student enrollment in distance education courses increased in the United States to over 6.1 million students taking at least one distance course. Distance education allows institutions to meet increasing demands from the government and business sectors for more graduates in ways that face-to-face courses cannot meet with…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Quality, Enrollment, Administrators
Winterwood, Fawn – Online Submission, 2010
This qualitative ethnographic study examines five American teenagers' historical and current digitally-mediated multiliteracy practices within digital popular culture. The participants included three male and two female students of a private high school in the Midwestern United States. The study is framed by the notion that literacy is a socially,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Popular Culture, Electronic Learning, Distance Education