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Froehlich, Laura; Sassenberg, Kai; Jonkmann, Kathrin; Scheiter, Katharina; Stürmer, Stefan – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: The use of e-exams in higher education is increasing. However, the role of student diversity in the acceptance of e-exams is an under-researched topic. In the current study, we considered student diversity in terms of three sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, and second language) and three dispositional student…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Characteristics
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Pu, Shi; Xu, Hao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This paper reports on the results from a multiple-case study of how EFL school teachers in China coped with online assessment for 10 weeks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We looked into the online assessment practices of seven teachers from seven regions of China, through individual interview, teachers' journals, instructional designs for online…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Wang, Yuqi; Ren, Wei – Language Learning Journal, 2022
L2 pragmatics have explored the effects of different factors on different aspects of learners' pragmatic performance, but often not simultaneously. In addition, syntactic complexity is rarely examined in L2 pragmatics. This cross-sectional study aimed to conduct a multidimensional analysis to explore the effects of proficiency and study-abroad…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jaafari, Mohamed – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This article demonstrates the way flipped learning is implemented in response to new learning environment to solve inadequacies in setting and enhance learning and teaching practices. Accordingly, in the Faculty of Arabic Language in Marrakech, flipped classroom is adopted as a pedagogical solution to approach novel occurrences in teaching and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Harrison, Jamie; Lakin, Joni – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
Teacher attitudes toward inclusion of English Learners (ELs) in the mainstream classroom have primarily focused on explicit beliefs as accessed through observation, case studies, and self-report surveys. The authors explore implicit mainstream teacher beliefs about ELs using the newly created Implicit Association Test-EL, with correlations to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Language Learners, Correlation, Observation
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Vakili, Shokoufeh; Ebadi, Saman – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Theoretically grounded in Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of mind, Dynamic Assessment (DA) provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate different aspects of learners' developmental trajectory, including the ways they overcome their errors. As a qualitative inquiry into the nature of errors reflecting learners' development in academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing
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Halenko, Nicola; Jones, Christian; Davies, Laura; Davies, Joseph – Intercultural Communication Education, 2019
This paper documents a cross-sectional look at L1 transfer and L2 contact for learners of English in a UK study abroad (SA) context. The study employed an instructional experimental design over a 6- month period with 34 Chinese students assigned to either an explicitly instructed group or a control group receiving no instruction. Instruction took…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Study Abroad, Transfer of Training, English (Second Language)
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Alexander Aristizábal, Jorge – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This paper shows how an American International School in Vietnam has been using data and Learning Analytics to find out about students' learning from their assessments and how they use these findings to improve, among other areas, the reading skills of their mostly English as an Additional Language (EAL) student population. The source of data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Schools, English for Academic Purposes, Data Analysis
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Quaid, Ethan Douglas – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
The present trend in developing and using semi-direct speaking tests has been supported by test developers and researchers' claim of their increased practicality, higher reliability and concurrent validity with test scores in direct oral proficiency interviews. However, it is universally agreed within the language testing and assessment community…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Speech Communication, Language Tests, Comparative Analysis
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Franz, Jens; Teo, Adisa – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2018
Thailand has seen several English language curriculum reforms over the last 20 years, all of which were found to have failed to lift Thai students' standard of English language proficiency across all levels of study. In 2014, the Thai Ministry of Education announced the introduction of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hoang, Giang Thi Linh; Kunnan, Antony John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
Computer technology made its way into writing instruction and assessment with spelling and grammar checkers decades ago, but more recently it has done so with automated essay evaluation (AEE) and diagnostic feedback. And although many programs and tools have been developed in the last decade, not enough research has been conducted to support or…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Essays, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language)
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Craft, Judy; Ainscough, Louise – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Devising authentic assessments for subjects with large enrolments is a challenge. This study describes an electronic role-play assessment for approximately 600 first-year nursing students to learn and apply pathophysiology (bioscience) concepts to nursing practice. Students used Microsoft Office PowerPoint[R] to prepare electronic role-plays both…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Nursing Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Freiermuth, Mark, Ed.; Zarrinabadi, Nourollah, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2020
This edited volume brings together large-scale research as well as case studies from a range of geographical contexts and represents a variety of educational settings involving second language learners and users. Its aim is to explore the interrelated issues of psychology and technology use in second language learning settings as well as in more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies, Technology Uses in Education
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Atkins, Andrew – Research-publishing.net, 2013
This paper provides a discussion of the results of a cross-sectional examination of linguistic variables that are predicted to influence L2 reading fluency. This study is part of a larger, longitudinal mixed-methods study into reading fluency development using online Timed Reading (TR) with participants from a mid-to-high level private university…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Web Sites, Case Studies, Second Language Learning
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Taguchi, Naoko, Ed.; Skyes, Julie M., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2013
Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second language pragmatics by presenting exemplary applications of technology for both research and pedagogy. Part I presents…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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