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Parastou Gholami Pasand; Jaleh Hassaskhah – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Developing intercultural sensitivity in the current multicultural world is an essential, but challenging requirement. This necessity is significant in EFL classes where learners are expected to gain intercultural skills to communicate more efficiently in culturally diverse contexts. Grounded in Bennett's (Bennett, International Journal of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Communities of Practice
Haron, Haeza; Kasuma, Shaidatul Akma Adi; Akhiar, Ayuni – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2021
This study uses WhatsApp to facilitate online discussions in developing content idea for ESL writing. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 33 pre-university students participating in online discussions on WhatsApp for five weeks to support face-to-face instructions. Pre-test, post-test, and five weekly writing tests were administered,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Discussion Groups
Woodward, Heather; Warrick, Andrew – Research-publishing.net, 2020
For three months, Japanese university learners (N=40) utilized the YoTeach! application by Pedagogic and Active Learning Mobile Solutions (PALMS) Project, PolyU as a part of their English discussion class. Researchers re-purposed the application, which originally was designed to be an online classroom backchannel, as an asynchronous, pre-task…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
Kim, Jungyin – Curriculum Matters, 2022
This study examined how a group of Korean international students enrolled in a writing class in a United States business programme navigated their literacy practices through the use of KakaoTalk, a social networking application for smartphones. On the basis of 29 student interviews and a detailed narrative of one focal student's activities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Korean, Business Administration Education, Writing Skills
Ai-Hwa – Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of conducting asynchronous online discussion forums on low-achieving EFL students in Taiwan. 124 non-English program students from a technological university participated. Based on a textbook, one to three questions were assigned every other week. An asynchronous learning mode was implemented…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
Xu, Shuya – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The present study investigated The Mixxer language exchange site (https://www.language-exchanges.org/) as a typical informal online community of self-directed language learners with a focus on how learners interact with each other. Learners' perception was also studied regarding how their language learning was impacted by their participation in…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication
Li, Ke; Peterson, Mark; Wang, Qiao – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
This paper reports on a project that draws upon the framework of the community of inquiry to support game-based language learning outside classroom. Case study design was employed to collect and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data, with a view to investigating the participants' language development, participation, and perception. This…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Learning
De Oliveira, Luciana C.; Olesova, Larisa – Journal of Education, 2013
This study examined asynchronous online discussions in the online course "English Language Development" to identify themes related to participants' learning about the language and literacy development of English Language Learners when they facilitated online discussions to determine whether the participants developed sufficient…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Asynchronous Communication
Delahunty, Janine – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Identity became apparent as an important theme while investigating the role of interaction in the asynchronous discussion forums of an online post-graduate TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) education subject. Identity emerged through dialogic choices as students projected an impression of themselves, negotiated their…
Descriptors: Identification, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny; Hung, Shao-Ting Alan – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Online discussion forums represent "online collaborative learning spaces in which communities become engaged in the discourse on a topic about which they share common interests or goals" (Montero, Watts & Garcia-Carbonell, 2007, p. 568). This digital communication modality has been claimed to enhance second/foreign language (L2)…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Computer Uses in Education
Smidt, Esther; Bunk, Jennifer; McGrory, Bridget; Li, Rui; Gatenby, Tanya – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
There has been an unquestionable upsurge in distance education in recent years. Given this, it is extremely important to understand the experience of online courses from students' perspectives. The purpose of the current qualitative study is to understand student attitudes about distance education in a specific context, namely that of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Distance Education, College Students, Qualitative Research
Hew, Khe Foon; Cheung, Wing Sum – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
Contemporary discussions of education in blended-learning environments increasingly emphasize the social nature of learning which emphasizes interactions among students, or among students and instructors. These interactions can occur asynchronously using a text based discussion forum. A text-based discussion forum, however, may not work well for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Undergraduate Students, Test Theory
Liu, I-Fan; Chen, Meng Chang; Sun, Yeali S.; Wible, David; Kuo, Chin-Hwa – Computers & Education, 2010
An online learning community enables learners to access up-to-date information via the Internet anytime--anywhere because of the ubiquity of the World Wide Web (WWW). Students can also interact with one another during the learning process. Hence, researchers want to determine whether such interaction produces learning synergy in an online learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Models, Intention
Liu, Mei-hui – Computers & Education, 2012
This study investigated the application of an online videocase discussion community into fostering preservice and inservice EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' professional development in Taiwan. This investigation further revealed the nature and development of discussion discourse and the participating teachers' perceptions of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Arikan, Arda – Online Submission, 2008
In this paper, an application of one aspect of the Internet technology, namely Internet groups, into the teaching of American and British literatures is evaluated by means of a content analysis of the Internet group which was used as the course component. The aim of this paper was to see how students used the Internet group in the learning of…
Descriptors: Interaction, Content Analysis, Internet, English (Second Language)
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