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Chien, Chin-Wen; Teo, Timothy – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
This study focuses on the integration of protocols into elementary school English teacher's professional dialogue and discusses the influence of protocols on teacher's teaching and learning. Based on the analysis of documents, observations, and interviews, this study concludes that the introduction of protocols to elementary school English…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Tsai, Kuei-Ju – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Corpora are well-known for the affordance to make linguistic regularities salient. Since the coinage of the term 'data-driven learning' (DDL) in the 1990s, much has been done to investigate the effects of DDL on learning vocabulary, most notably lexico-grammatical patterns. However, less researched is how learners construct vocabulary knowledge…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Yen-Hui – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study explores the differences between more successful and less successful EFL readers in their comprehension performance and abilities to use reading strategies in interaction with English texts through thinking aloud while reading in pairs. Ten freshman high school students participated in pairs in four think-aloud reading tasks to think…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Scores, Teaching Methods
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Lai, Chiu-Lin; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
In this study, a spreadsheet-based visualized Mindtool was developed for improving students' learning performance when finding relationships between numerical variables by engaging them in reasoning and decision-making activities. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an experiment was conducted on the "phenomena of climate…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Visual Aids, Visualization, Decision Making Skills
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Chang, Pei-Fen; Lin, Miao-Chen – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This study investigates problem-solving difficulties of novices in a classroom setting, using a German instructional tool, the Fischertechnik kit of approximately 400 parts. In order to analyse the students' thinking processes as they solved the problems, verbal protocol analysis (VPA) was used to record the students'' thinking processes and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Novices, Student Characteristics, Student Behavior
Chen, Hsin-Yuan – Online Submission, 2009
According to government reports, new Internet technologies present readers with new reading opportunities and challenges (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000; RAND Reading Study Group [RRSG], 2002). However, we are just beginning to understand the specific complexities that Internet text imposes on the reading…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Cues, Protocol Analysis