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Ounissi, Amine; Romly, Raihana; Tajuddin, Azza Jauhar Ahmad; Hasan, Md. Kamrul – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
The prevalence of COVID-19 worldwide and the length of the global lockdown period deeply affected students' academic study. This unexpected scenario posed a challenge to a considerable number of academic institutions around the world to formally adopt a new education system based on e-learning platforms. Therefore, this study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Guenier, Amily – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study explores how students produce their own mini videos using the target language to share experiences and communicate with native speakers. Multimodality is used as a theoretical approach. Class observations and in-depth interviews were used for data collection, which was analysed by theme. The research results indicate that students deem…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Smith, Christopher A. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
To maximize the advantages of virtual learning, the present study highlights the potential for Internet meme design and creation in English language learning (ELL) courses as an innovative activity that raises student agency, increases multimodal literacy, inculcates intercultural communication, and teaches idiomatic expression. Memes resonate a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Power Structure
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Kennedy, Olivia; Healy, Sandra – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Technology is changing traditional views of language teaching and learning, with generational and cultural differences influencing the ways that we interact with it. This paper describes an action research project undertaken at a university in Japan to understand how students use the Internet to prepare written assignments in L2, and the students'…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Information Sources, Writing Assignments
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Ambrose, Regina Maria; Palpanathan, Shanthini – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has evolved through various stages in both technology as well as the pedagogical use of technology (Warschauer & Healey, 1998). Studies show that the CALL trend has facilitated students in their English language writing with useful tools such as computer based activities and word processing. Students…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Instruction
DerKhachadourian, Liza – Online Submission, 2019
Many university undergraduates consider writing assignments an overwhelming requirement. Traditional instructions rarely provide students with clear directions of how to use the Internet to search for authentic material and complete a task. The aim of this study was to scaffold the competence of EFL university students in writing an informative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Jamrichová, Valéria; Zamborová, Katarína – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
A learner-centred approach puts students amidst the learning process and helps them become involved in that process. It provides an opportunity for students to choose and direct the course of the lesson. This approach is especially appropriate when dealing with ethical concerns that might be sensitive issues. When it comes to the sources for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Ethics, Student Centered Learning
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Alsied, Safia Mujtaba; Ibrahim, Noura Winis – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
Research is conducted all over the world to solve problems or to answer questions of significance to humanity. Academic writing or writing to report research is not easy because it requires adequate background knowledge, interest, motivation and hard work. This study investigates the major challenges in research writing faced by Libyan EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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White, Kelsey D.; Heidrich, Emily – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2013
Most educators are aware that some students utilize web-based machine translators for foreign language assignments, however, little research has been done to determine how and why students utilize these programs, or what the implications are for language learning and teaching. In this mixed-methods study we utilized surveys, a translation task,…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Translation
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Thouësny, Sylvie – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Computer and Internet literacy is often taken for granted in the case of young adults born into the digital world; it is generally assumed that they can all use technology effectively. However, as mentioned by Fowley (2011), "it is easy to forget that in Ireland for example, many of the young people whom we routinely call digital natives have…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Second Language Learning, French
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Morofushi, Mari; Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah Ellen – Language Learning Journal, 2014
With the spread of the Internet, students now have greater opportunities to use Japanese outside of the classroom. For example, they can interact with other Japanese speakers through instant messaging or social networking, or utilize online dictionaries and translation tools to decipher websites in ways that would be impossible with traditional…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Li, Zhi; Hegelheimer, Volker – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
In this paper, we report on the development and implementation of a web-based mobile application, "Grammar Clinic," for an ESL writing class. Drawing on insights from the interactionist approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the Noticing Hypothesis, and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), "Grammar Clinic" was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Editing, English (Second Language)
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Kamimura, Taeko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Effective use of outside source texts is one of the key components of successful academic writing. This study aims at clarifying Japanese university EFL students' citation behaviors in producing argumentative writing. Twenty-six Japanese university EFL students wrote an argumentative essay. Their essays were analyzed quantitatively by six…
Descriptors: Citations (References), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Seror, Jeremie – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
Technology is an ever-increasing part of how teachers and learners work on language and texts. Indeed, computers, the Internet, and Web 2.0 applications are revolutionizing how texts are consumed, discussed, and produced in classrooms. This article focuses on a specific technological innovation emerging from this digital revolution: the use of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Assignments, Internet, Feedback (Response)
Lu, Minhui – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored how the learners-as-ethnographers (LAE) approach facilitated intercultural learning among American students learning Chinese as a foreign language. Two research questions addressed the effectiveness of the LAE approach and students' learning experiences in a non-immersion context. I designed six ethnographic tasks for the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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