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Lopes, António – Teaching English with Technology, 2015
The CEFR encourages teachers to resort to task-based activities in the language classroom. However, some resistance has been offered to this approach, due to lack of appropriate training and difficulty in meeting some basic practical conditions, as well as in finding resources and examples of good practices, as shown in a survey conducted within…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Program Evaluation
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Hilbig, Annemarie; Proske, Antje – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2014
Although academic writing is a complex interplay of comprehending and producing text the aspect of collecting information from source texts is hardly addressed in writing research. This study examined the impact of instructions supporting the collection process on writing quality, as well as the role of prior motivation and computer experience.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing Assignments, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
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Seifried, Eva; Lenhard, Wolfgang; Baier, Herbert; Spinath, Birgit – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
This study investigates the potential of a software tool based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA; Landauer, McNamara, Dennis, & Kintsch, 2007) to automatically evaluate complex German texts. A sample of N = 94 German university students provided written answers to questions that involved a high amount of analytical reasoning and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education