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Liu, Song; Liu, Peng; Urano, Yoshiyori – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2013
Practice and research in the composition education that is using computer and network have been more and more active. Through online composition system, a large amount of written texts produced by students and teachers can be collected. This kind of information is called a learner corpus, which is important in second language education because the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction
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Flanagan, Brendan; Yin, Chengjiu; Hirokawa, Sachio; Hashimoto, Kiyota; Tabata, Yoshiyuki – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2013
In this paper, the entries of Lang-8, which is a Social Networking Site (SNS) site for learning and practicing foreign languages, were analyzed and found to contain similar rates of errors for most error categories reported in previous research. These similarly rated errors were then processed using an algorithm to determine corrections suggested…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction