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Sundqvist, Pia; Sylvén, Liss Kerstin – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This paper presents findings from a study investigating young Swedish learners' extramural (out-of-school) contact with English. In contemporary Sweden, the influx of English is great and research has shown that extramural contact with English correlates positively with students' proficiency in English (Olsson, 2011; Sundqvist, 2009; Sylvén,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Activities
Sun, Yu-Chih – 2000
The potential for on-line corpus in language teaching and learning has been the focus of attention on the part of teachers and researchers for some time now. The purpose of this study is to report on an Internet-based concordance approach to language learning and to investigate both qualitatively and quantitatively Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Singer, Steven A. – 1996
This study investigated the strategies used by three students in each of two college-level online writing classes, first-year composition for native speakers of English (NS) and first-year composition for speakers of English as a Second Language (ESL). Every paper written and reviewed with fellow students, every draft, and every peer critique was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks
Serdiukov, Peter; Tarnopolsky, Oleg – 1999
The main purpose of this article is to propose the Distance Professional Development and Support System (DPDS), an approach specifically designed to help non-native speakers of English teach English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) in a non-English-speaking setting. English has become the primary language of international communication, and there is a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Green, Simon, Ed. – 2000
This book comprises a series of newly commissioned chapters designed to stimulate debate about what kind of language-teaching is appropriate for the new millennium, what skills learners will need to cope with the technological and linguistic demands, and how the two can be synthesized. Collectively, the contributors seek a convergence of views…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Hardison, Debra M. – Language Learning & Technology, 2004
Two experiments investigated the effectiveness of computer-assisted prosody training, its generalization to novel sentences and segmental accuracy, and the relationship between prosodic and lexical information in long-term memory. Experiment 1, using a pretest-posttest design, provided native English-speaking learners of French with 3 weeks of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sentences, Cues, Pretests Posttests