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Making It Personal: Performance-Based Assessments, Ubiquitous Technology, and Advanced Learners
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Arispe, Kelly; Burston, Jack – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This pedagogical implementation study advocates for performance-driven assessments to help learners become aware of and improve upon presentational speaking skills at the advanced level. A social media content creation tool, Adobe Spark Video, enabled learners to practice oral skills outside of class. The task design, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Advanced Students, Speech Skills, Social Media
The Development of Advanced Learner Oral Proficiency Using iPads
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Lys, Franziska – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
In this study, I investigate the use and integration of iPads in an advanced German conversation class. In particular, I am interested in analyzing how students learn with this new technology and how it affects the development of their oral proficiency level. Overall, my results suggest that iPads are well suited to practice listening and speaking…
Descriptors: German, Handheld Devices, Conversational Language Courses, College Students
Learner Use of Holistic Language Units in Multimodal, Task-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication
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Collentine, Karina – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers strive to understand the language and exchanges that learners generate in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Doughty and Long (2003) advocate replacing open-ended SCMC with task-based language teaching (TBLT) design principles. Since most task-based SCMC (TB-SCMC) research addresses an…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Second Language Instruction