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Liu, Qian; Chao, Chin-Chi – ReCALL, 2018
The possibility of exploiting technology for more robust and meaningful learning and teaching has invoked messianic responses from the language education community. Yet to be explored are teachers' pedagogical choices based on the perceived technological affordances as well as interactions between teacher and student agency mediated by these…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interviews
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Satar, H. Müge – ReCALL, 2016
Online language learning and teaching in multimodal contexts has been identified as one of the key research areas in computer-aided learning (CALL) (Lamy, 2013; White, 2014). This paper aims to explore meaning-making in online language learner interactions via desktop videoconferencing (DVC) and in doing so illustrate multimodal transcription and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Interviews, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Rama, Paul S.; Black, Rebecca W.; van Es, Elizabeth; Warschauer, Mark – ReCALL, 2012
What are the affordances of online gaming environments for second language learning and socialization? To answer this question, this qualitative study examines two college-age Spanish learners' experiences participating in the Spanish language version of the massively multi-player online game "World of Warcraft." Using data culled from participant…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Participant Observation, Computer Games
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Schmid, Euline Cutrim; Hegelheimer, Volker – ReCALL, 2014
This paper presents research findings of a longitudinal empirical case study that investigated an innovative Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) professional development program for pre-service English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The conceptualization of the program was based on the assumption that pre-service language teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ko, Chao-Jung – ReCALL, 2012
This study adopts a case study approach to investigate the impacts of synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) learning environments on learners' perception of social presence. The participants were twelve French as a foreign language (FFL) beginners in a Taiwanese university. Divided into three groups, they conducted some tasks in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Novices
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de los Arcos, Beatriz; Coleman, James A.; Hampel, Regine – ReCALL, 2009
Success and failure in language learning are partly determined by the learners' ability to regulate their emotions. Negative feelings are more likely to frustrate progress, while positive ones make the task of learning a second language (L2) a more effective experience. To date no significant body of research has been carried out into the role of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Develotte, Christine; Guichon, Nicolas; Vincent, Caroline – ReCALL, 2010
This paper explores how language teachers learn to teach with a synchronous multimodal setup ("Skype"), and it focuses on their use of the webcam during the pedagogical interaction. First, we analyze the ways that French graduate students learning to teach online use the multimodal resources available in a desktop videoconferencing (DVC)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Interaction, French
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Lee, Lina – ReCALL, 2010
Blog technology is a potential medium for encouraging reflective writing through self-expression and interactive exchange through social networking. This paper reports on a study using blogs as out-of-class assignments for the development of learners' language competence. The study involved seventeen university students at advanced level who kept…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Wishart, Jocelyn – ReCALL, 2008
This study addresses the challenges faced by Modern Foreign Language teacher trainees when asked to investigate the potential of a Personal Digital Assistant to support them both in their learning and in their teaching during their training year. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) such as the Windows Pocket PCs used in this study have previously…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Information Technology
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Lim, Kang-Mi; Shen, Hui Zhong – ReCALL, 2006
This study examined the impact of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) on Korean TAFE (Technical and Further Education) college students in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading classroom in terms of their perceptions of learning environment and their reading performance. The study compared CALL and traditional reading classes over…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning