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Saman Ebadi; Hanieh Azizimajd – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of task-based speaking practices using the Clubhouse application outside the classroom on EFL learners' oral fluency and willingness to communicate (WTC). Sixty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups practicing speaking skills…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Handheld Devices, Computer Software
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Fu, Jo Shan; Yang, Shih-Hsien; Yeh, Hui-Chin – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
Previous research has addressed the effects of digital storytelling (DST) on verbal English competence and demonstrated that students engage more and learn more effectively. However, the relationship between learner engagement and speaking competence needs a further analysis of the methods wherein a specific DST tool facilitates learner engagement…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lyman-Hager, Mary-Ann; Davis, James F. – French Review, 1996
Summarizes an interactive computer-based reading program developed to enhance the linguistic proficiency of intermediate language students and increase their awareness of Francophone cultures. The article describes the program's glossing capabilities and its tracking device and summarizes the pilot research that preceded the program. (38…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Gündüz, Nazli – Online Submission, 2005
This article will provide an overview of computers; an overview of the history of CALL, its pros and cons, the internet, World Wide Web, Multimedia, and research related to the uses of computers in the language classroom. Also, it also aims to provide some background for the beginners on using the Internet in language classes today. It discusses…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History
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Fuentes, Alejandro Curado – CALICO Journal, 2004
This paper describes a method in oral fluency evaluation for Tourism English according to a corpus-based lexical approach. Our main research focus is placed on measuring oral skill competence among Tourism English (TE) learners by contrasting their word use and linguistic fluency, achieved in two types of oral tasks, with corpus data frequencies.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Tourism, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries