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Download full textFrankenberg-Garcia, Ana; Rees, Geraint; Lew, Robert; Roberts, Jonathan; Sharma, Nirwan; Butcher, Peter – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This short paper summarizes the development of ColloCaid (www. collocaid.uk), a text editor that supports writers with academic English collocations. After a brief introduction, the paper summarizes how the lexicographic database underlying ColloCaid was compiled, how text editor integration was achieved, and results from initial user studies. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, English for Academic Purposes, Vocabulary
Direct linkEllis, Robert A. – Computers and Education, 2006
This study reports on the student experience of learning through writing in an undergraduate science subject. During their writing experience, 52 first year university science students used a writing database, bulletin board and word-processor. Using quantitative questionnaires developed from student learning research, this study investigates the…
Descriptors: Student Experience, College Freshmen, Learning, Writing (Composition)
Kieras, David E. – 1992
The Computerized Comprehensibility System (CCS) provides an automated copy editing function, generating a mark-up of a draft of a technical document by simulating the simpler comprehension processes of a human reader, and then criticizing the text when these simple processes cannot successfully comprehend the material. A key CCS function is…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Databases
Solomon, Gwen – Electronic Learning, 1986
Discusses types of software most useful in social studies classes--games, simulations, and word processing, database, spreadsheets, and graphing--and introduces applications software through descriptions of four learning activities from different parts of the social studies curriculum: introducing databases, writing historical journals, tracking…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
Peng, John; And Others – Classroom Computer Learning, 1988
Discusses four applications of the microcomputer to the classroom: (1) a program listing of how to draw circles on the Apple II computers; (2) using a database to help write stories; (3) switching computers with others while writing stories to encourage creativity; and (4) a listing of a LOGO kaleidoscope program. (MVL)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Writing
Moeller, Babette – News from the Center for Children and Technology and the Center for Technology in Education, 1993
Current efforts to improve literacy teaching and learning are directed at replacing task-oriented approaches to teaching isolated skills with an integrated language arts curriculum, focusing on the cognitive and social processes the learner engages in to write. This new approach requires fundamental changes in the classroom, and computer-based…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Educational Technology
