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Language Learner Perspectives on the Functionality and Use of Electronic Language Dictionaries
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Levy, Mike; Steel, Caroline – ReCALL, 2015
This paper investigates the extent of electronic dictionary use by language learners in an Australian university. All students in the study are formally enrolled in language courses across ten languages at first, second or third year level. The study places a particular emphasis on gauging student perceptions of the beneficial aspects of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Dictionaries
Language Students and Their Technologies: Charting the Evolution 2006-2011
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Steel, Caroline H.; Levy, Mike – ReCALL, 2013
This paper has two key objectives. Firstly, it seeks to record the technologies in current use by learners of a range of languages at an Australian university in 2011. Data was collected via a large-scale survey of 587 foreign language students across ten languages at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Notably the data…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Surveys
L'Italiano al Telefonino: Using SMS to Support Beginners' Language Learning
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Kennedy, Claire; Levy, Mike – ReCALL, 2008
This article discusses an experiment in sending regular Short Message Service (SMS) messages to support language learning, and vocabulary learning in particular, at beginners' level in Italian at an Australian university. The approach we took built on the initiatives of Thornton and Houser (2005) and Dias (2002b), and was informed by the results…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Italian, Second Language Learning