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Understanding On-Screen Reading Behaviors in Academic Contexts: A Case Study of Five Graduate English-as-a-Second-Language Students
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Chou, I-Chia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Undoubtedly, new areas of functionality for electronic texts will come to the fore and create new reading habits and expectations for dealing and interacting with text as electronic texts become dominant in the academic world. These new forms of reading will gradually become as natural as the different activities readers now take for granted, such…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Internet, Language Proficiency
Critical Issues in Telecollaborative Task Design
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O'Dowd, R.; Waire, P. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
In this article we examine how instructors make decisions about task design in telecollaboration and the factors that influence these decisions during the actual implementation of the tasks. We begin with a review of the recent literature of online intercultural exchanges to identify and describe a typology of 12 different types of tasks and task…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Teacher Collaboration, Assignments
Leoki: A Powerful Voice of Hawaiian Language Revitalization.
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Warschauer, Mark; Donaghy, Keola; Kuamoyo, Hale – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1997
Gives an overview of the history of the Hawaiian language and the decline in number of speakers, chronicles efforts to revitalize it, and discusses the role of computing and online communications in this process, focusing on the Leoki bulletin board system, the first fully based on an indigenous language. Activities in an elementary school…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Hawaiian, Heritage Education