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Guangxiang Liu; Chaojun Ma; Jie Bao; Zhixin Liu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Utilizing a structural equation modeling approach, this article aims to examine the dynamics between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and Intercultural Competence (ICC). Altogether, 1490 Chinese college students from different types of universities in China answered the self-developed and validated IDLE-ICC questionnaire. The results…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Soyoof, Ali; Reynolds, Barry Lee; Vazquez-Calvo, Boris; McLay, Katherine – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
As technology has advanced, so have opportunities for language socialization and practice. This reciprocal relationship has resulted in the emergence of a subfield of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE). IDLE has manifested in various forms, including the more notable extramural and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Peng, Hongying; Jager, Sake; Lowie, Wander – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Mobile technologies provide opportunities for L2 learners to engage in complex interactions involving a multitude of cognitive, meta-cognitive, and affective factors. Understanding the process of learners' mobile language learning thus needs holistic approaches that integratively consider learner attributes and their interaction with mobile…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Toffoli, Denyze; Sockett, Geoff – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
Online Informal Learning of English (OILE) involves the many different types of language practices that non-specialist EFL students of English are involved in on the Internet. This article reviews previous studies in the area and summarises the specific outcomes that OILE is thought to produce. It then presents an analysis of a survey of teachers'…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes, Informal Education, English (Second Language)
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Whyte, Shona; Schmid, Euline Cutrim; van Hazebrouck Thompson, Sanderin; Oberhofer, Margret – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
This paper discusses challenges and opportunities arising during the development of open educational resources (OERs) to support communicative language teaching (CLT) with interactive whiteboards (IWBs). iTILT (interactive Technologies in Language Teaching), a European Lifelong Learning Project, has two main aims: (a) to promote "best…
Descriptors: Open Education, Educational Resources, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning