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Direct linkGu, Hui; Yao, Jijun; Zhou, Longjun; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Abrami, Philip C. – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This study explores the effectiveness of a A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRACADABRA; hereinafter, ABRA)--a web-based literacy program designed by Concordia University in Canada--on third-grade students in Nanjing, China. Design/Approach/Methods: Participants comprised 999…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Courseware, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Karkour, Islam – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
The aim of this paper is to describe a blended learning model to be used in Egyptian schools when teaching reading classes in English as a foreign language. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the Egyptian context and describes the target learners. The second part describes the suggested blended learning model, which is…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Lee, Chung-ping; Shen, Chung-wei; Lee, Doris – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
In Taiwan, lectures are commonly used for younger students to learn their own language, which is traditional Chinese. Passively listening to lectures has led to this group of students making such mistakes as forgetting strokes and word meanings, combining phrases to create incomprehensible blurs of information, and switching radicals with phonetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction
Harrison, Colin – 1984
Differences in sets of criteria for evaluating microcomputer software are discussed. They are set against the results of three studies in which teachers in the United Kingdom evaluated five programs which were used in reading or English lessons. A comparison of the checklist criteria with the case study data was made using Stake's (1967) matrix of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Check Lists, Courseware, Evaluation Criteria
Stevens, Vance – 1991
This paper reports on a project aimed at finding out what students do when working cloze passages on computer. To generate data, a computer-based cloze program, "Super Cloze," was configured so that all student keypresses would be recorded. This was worked by several classes of students at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) during their…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries
H.-Lemonnier, France; And Others – 1989
A listing of 97 items of courseware includes programs in seven categories, pertaining to: (1) vocabulary; (2) grammar; (3) verb conjugation; (4) syntax and/or morphosyntax; (5) reading and/or writing; (6) oral language; and (7) other areas of French second language instruction. Each citation includes the title, program type (e.g. drill, game),…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries, French
Peer reviewedClarke, David F. – System, 1986
Describes an integrated series of computer-assisted reading (CAR) materials under development at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The discussion indicates some of the problems in teaching reading with computers, describes the framework of the CAR project, and gives specific examples of activities. (SED)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries
TESOL Newsletter, 1985
The 1985 volume of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) newsletter includes articles on the role of grammar in language teaching; teaching English in Spanish schools; software for English as a second language (ESL); ESL teacher employment overseas; reading in English for special purposes; ESL techniques for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Software, Courseware, English (Second Language)
PDF pending restorationKitao, Kenji – Doshisha Business Review, 1992
Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has been studied in Japan since about 1963. However, materials for computer-assisted English second language instruction at the college level are not highly developed. A 1985 experiment in CAI at one Japanese university used materials developed by faculty, staff, and students. Instruction using CAI at Doshisha…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Course Organization
