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Interactive Digital Media Assignments: Effects on EFL Learners' Overall and Micro-Level Oral Language Skills
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Marwa F. Hafour – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Owing to the plethora of user-friendly audio/video creation and editing applications as well as free full-featured hosting platforms, videoing and sharing has become a lifestyle of today's students. Utilizing these spontaneous practices, the current study examined the effects of digital media assignments (DMAs) and accompanying asynchronous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
Discussing with a Computer to Practice a Foreign Language: Research Synthesis and Conceptual Framework of Dialogue-Based CALL
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Bibauw, Serge; François, Thomas; Desmet, Piet – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This article presents the results of a systematic review of the literature on dialogue-based CALL, resulting in a conceptual framework for research on the matter. Applications allowing a learner to have a conversation in a foreign language with a computer have been studied from various perspectives and under different names (dialogue systems,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Automated Written Corrective Feedback: How Well Can Students Make Use of It?
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Ranalli, Jim – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Automated written corrective feedback (AWCF) has qualities that distinguish it from teacher-provided WCF and potentially undermine claims about its value for L2 student writers, including disparities in the amounts of useful information it provides across error types and the fact that inaccuracies in error-flagging must be anticipated. It remains…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
Word-Processor or Pencil-and-Paper? A Comparison of Students' Writing in Chinese as a Foreign Language
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Zhu, Yu; Mark Shum, Shiu-Kee; Brian Tse, Shek-Kam; Liu, Jinghui Jack – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
A study is reported of the performance and attainment of 32 students from overseas studying elementary Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in a Chinese university. With an AB-BA design, they were asked to use two forms of writing media to present two essays: one a word-processed essay entitled "My Favourite Female" and the other a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Foreign Students
The Impact of Word Recognition from Speech (WRS) Proficiency Level on Interaction, Task Success and Word Learning: Design Implications for CALL to Develop L2 WRS
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Matthews, Joshua; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Chen, Shen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This paper reports on task interaction, task success and word learning among second language (L2) learners of different levels of word recognition from speech (WRS) proficiency who used a CALL application previously shown to be effective in the development of L2 WRS. Participants (N = 65) were categorised into three levels of L2 WRS proficiency…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Proficiency, Scores, Comparative Analysis
Website Analysis as a Tool for Task-Based Language Learning and Higher Order Thinking in an EFL Context
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Roy, Debopriyo – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
Besides focusing on grammar, writing skills, and web-based language learning, researchers in "CALL" and second language acquisition have also argued for the importance of promoting higher-order thinking skills in ESL (English as Second Language) and EFL (English as Foreign Language) classrooms. There is solid evidence supporting the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Web Sites, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Efficient Personalized Mispronunciation Detection of Taiwanese-Accented English Speech Based on Unsupervised Model Adaptation and Dynamic Sentence Selection
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Wu, Chung-Hsien; Su, Hung-Yu; Liu, Chao-Hong – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2013
This study presents an efficient approach to personalized mispronunciation detection of Taiwanese-accented English. The main goal of this study was to detect frequently occurring mispronunciation patterns of Taiwanese-accented English instead of scoring English pronunciations directly. The proposed approach quickly identifies personalized…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction