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Msonde, Sydney Enock; Van Aalst, Jan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Virtual learning environments are used in higher education around the world to promote student learning. However, in many countries it has not yielded the expected effect on student interaction and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of certain pedagogical approaches would promote student interaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry
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Aubry, James – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
This study explores the effects of instructor's self-disclosure using the Facebook social networking online platform on students' motivation types in an online language course. The participants were 104 beginning French students enrolled in an online French course at a major research university in the southeast U.S. The participants were divided…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Motivation, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Social Networks
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AbuSeileek, Ali; Abualsha'r, Awatif – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study investigated the effect of using computer-mediated corrective feedback on EFL learners' performance in writing. Sixty-four intermediate-level learners were randomly assigned to either a no-feedback control condition or a corrective feedback, including three treatment conditions. The first is the "track changes" feature of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Error Correction
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Kim, Hyewon; Lee, MiYoung; Kim, Minjeong – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of mobile instant messaging on collaborative learning processes and outcomes. The collaborative processes were measured in terms of different types of interactions. We measured the outcomes of the collaborations through both the students' taskwork and their teamwork. The collaborative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Synchronous Communication, Cooperative Learning
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Guichon, Nicolas; Cohen, Cathy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
It is intuitively felt that visual cues should enhance online communication, and this experimental study aims to test this prediction by exploring the value provided by a webcam in an online L2 pedagogical teacher-to-learner interaction. A total of 40 French undergraduate students with a B2 level in English were asked to describe in English four…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
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Chou, Shih-Wei; Min, Hui-Tzu – Computers & Education, 2009
This study examines an alternative function of information sharing--social construction of meaning. Drawing on social construction, social interaction, and task closure theories, we explored the influence of both the media environment in which students are situated and the medium that group members choose to communicate with one another on the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Virtual Classrooms
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Sanders, Robert – CALICO Journal, 2006
Language production of Spanish students using synchronous CMC (chat) during class time was compared with that of students meeting outside of class. The study included about 100 participants enrolled in 10 sections of a first-quarter Spanish course at a US university. Students in the control group spent 30 minutes of their weekly class time in…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication