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Davis, Robert O.; Vincent, Joseph – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Pedagogical agents in multimedia learning environments have frequently been designed to produce pointing gestures (deictic) to direct spatial awareness. Although this might be beneficial for native English-speaking students who possess high levels of comprehension, only using pointing gestures with foreign language students learning English is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Multimedia Instruction
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Kanellopoulou, Catherine; Kermanidis, Katia Lida; Giannakoulopoulos, Andreas – Education Sciences, 2019
The use of multimedia has often been suggested as a teaching tool in foreign language teaching and learning. In foreign language education, exciting new multimedia applications have appeared over the last years, especially for young learners, but many of these do not seem to produce the desired effect in language development. This article looks…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Learning Theories, Multimedia Materials, Coding
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Gass, Susan; Winke, Paula; Isbell, Daniel R.; Ahn, Jieun – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
Captions provide a useful aid to language learners for comprehending videos and learning new vocabulary, aligning with theories of multimedia learning. Multimedia learning predicts that a learner's working memory (WM) influences the usefulness of captions. In this study, we present two eye-tracking experiments investigating the role of WM in…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Short Term Memory, Multimedia Instruction, Teaching Methods
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BavaHarji, Madhubala; Alavi, Zhinoos Kamal; Letchumanan, Krishnaveni – English Language Teaching, 2014
This experimental design study examined the effects of viewing captioned instructional videos on EFL learners' content comprehension, vocabulary acquisition and language proficiency. It also examined the participants' perception of viewing the captioned instructional videos. The 92 EFL students in two classes, who were undertaking the "Tape…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Mills, Nicole; Herron, Carol; Cole, Steven P. – CALICO Journal, 2004
As teachers' roles evolve in technology-enhanced language learning (TELL), choices of technological devices and instructional delivery and the degree of foreign language (FL) teacher facilitation within TELL activities are prominent. This investigation compared 53 beginning college French students' comprehension of FL video in a teacher-assisted…
Descriptors: French, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Comprehension
Centre for Information on Language Teaching, London (England). – 1973
These five lists form an annotated bibliography of instructional materials for use in teaching French, classified according to the age and level of instruction for which they were intended. Each list treats a separate category of materials. There is a title index, as well as an index of authors, editors, compilers, and adaptors, with each list.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities