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Ensmann, Suzanne – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
Imagine producing curricula to teach a new language to an audience in a different country that has never had access to computers or the Internet. How will instructional designers and teachers communicate when worlds are so vastly different? Before reading, writing, or speaking, images and movement facilitate communication. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Access to Computers, Internet
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Kavoshian, Saeedeh; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Koehler, Thomas – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The purpose of the study reported in this article was to investigate the contribution of engaging in an online Teacher Professional Development (oTPD) course to improving different facets of English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' Professional Development (PD). To this end, ten EFL teachers of a language institute participated in the study to…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Check Lists
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Noori, Abdullah – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
The use of technology is an integral component in the learning and teaching of languages in the twenty-first Century. Around the globe, studies have been carried out to investigate the integration of technology in language classrooms. However, there is a lack of empirical research on this subject in Afghanistan. Therefore, the purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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Cullen, Theresa A.; Cobb, Inger C. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
This study reports the results of a needs analysis of literacy programs for a library system serving three rural and suburban counties. It examines the computing skills and needs of literacy tutors as well as native-speaking and English language learner (ELL) literacy tutees enrolled in the programs. Paper surveys were mailed to tutors, who were…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Counties, Tutors, Adult Literacy
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Ananyeva, Maria – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper focuses on "blogfolios", online interactive blog-based portfolios, developed by students for class projects in Electronic Literacy. Blogfolios may contain interactive images, podcasts, and web-log discussions on a variety of researched academic topics. The impact of academic blogfolios on the second language learner's…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Aydin, Selami – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
Little attention has been paid to the demotivating potential of new technologies in foreign language research. Thus, this study aims to investigate Internet anxiety among foreign language learners and to determine the relationships between Internet anxiety and certain variables. A background questionnaire, an Internet information test, and an…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Internet, Anxiety