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Ismail, Lilliati; Abd. Samad, Arshad – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This study investigated the potential of using tasks in the Malaysian classroom to facilitate second language (L2) learning, particularly amongst Form 6 (18-year-old) students in the Malaysian secondary school system. These students had undergone 6 years of primary education and 5 years of secondary education in Malaysian public schools. They…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Smith, Bryan – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This study investigated whether eye-tracking technology could be employed as a measure of noticing of corrective feedback (in the form of explicit recasts) during NS-NNS task-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Pairs of university-level learners of English (n = 18) engaged in a short chat interaction task with a native…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Fischer, Robert – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
This article presents a survey of computer-based tracking in CALL and the uses to which the analysis of tracking data can be put to address questions in CALL in particular and second language acquisition (SLA) in general. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative methods, researchers have found that students often use software in unexpected ways,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Ueno, Junko – 1998
A study investigated: (1) the distribution of learning styles of students of Japanese as a second language, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, (2) students' preferences for error correction in speaking and writing, as measured by a researcher-developed questionnaire, and (3) relationships between students' learning styles and their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Error Correction, Higher Education
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Wesche, Marjorie; Paribakht, T. Sima – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Provides a detailed analysis of techniques used for second language vocabulary assessment and the implied assumptions about the underlying construct of vocabulary knowledge. The article notes that existing measures of vocabulary size are uninformative as to the depth of knowledge that learners have about particular words. (56 references)…
Descriptors: Dictation, Dictionaries, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction