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Muzakki Bashori; Roeland van Hout; Helmer Strik; Catia Cucchiarini – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Speaking skills generally receive little attention in traditional English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, and this is especially the case in secondary education in Indonesia. A vocabulary deficit and poor pronunciation skills hinder learners in their efforts to improve speaking proficiency. In the present study, we investigated the effects…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment, Video Technology
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Tan, Chia-Chen; Chen, Chih-Ming; Lee, Hahn-Ming – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
A number of prominent educators have confirmed that developing learners' metacognitive strategies about listening is an important way of helping them learn how to listen to improve their listening. With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, many listening training systems provide various types of help options in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Listening Skills
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Abrams, Zsuzsanna – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Grounded in research on collaborative writing and computer-mediated writing the present study examines the computer-mediated collaborative writing process among first-year learners of German as a second language (L2) at a US university. The data come from 28 first-year learners of German at a US university, who wrote hypothesized endings to a…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Su, You; Li, Yanyan; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among language educators in implementing and researching collaborative learning in wiki-based learning environments. However, little empirical evidence has been reported about the role of EFL learners' online self-regulating capacity in their collaborative learning. This study used wiki-based…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aydin, Selami – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study presents a review of the literature that examines WebQuests as tools for second-language acquisition and foreign language-learning processes to guide teachers in their teaching activities and researchers in further research on the issue. The study first introduces the theoretical background behind WebQuest use in the mentioned…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Web Sites, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Azari, Mohammad Hosein – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article investigated the effect of weblog use in a process-based writing course on the writing performance of students as well as on their level of learner autonomy. The participants were 43 English language learners who were doing their BA in the field of English Language Teaching. The control group (n = 19) went through in-class writing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
Focusing on the topic of the development of the plurilingual and intercultural competence through the integration of electronic communicative practices both in foreign language classrooms and non-formal contexts, this work aims at defining and characterizing, in view of a co-actional perspective, a "pedagogical blog", by considering it…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
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Huang, Hsin-chou – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
With the advancement of such Web 2.0 applications as weblogs, language learners have more opportunities to use a target language for communication purposes and to experience peer collaboration and interaction. In the search for ways to augment an EFL curriculum in which speaking practice is limited but the demand for improving oral proficiencies…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Semi Structured Interviews, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language)
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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
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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
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Vurdien, Ruby – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2013
Today Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, are presenting both teachers and learners with new horizons in the field of language teaching and learning. A blog is an online journal which can be continuously updated by its users [Matheson, D. (2004). Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: Some trends in online journalism. "New Media &…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
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Kong, Kenneth – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
Self-study is playing an increasingly important role in the learning and instruction of many subjects, including second and foreign languages. With the rapid development of the internet, language websites for self-study are flourishing. While the language of print-based teaching materials has received some attention, the linguistic and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Online Courses, Information Sources
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Lee, Lina – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
Blogs and podcasts open new ways for global communication and development of intercultural awareness. This article reports a Spanish-American telecollaborative project through which students created blogs and podcasts for intercultural exchanges in light of the sociocultural perspectives. The article outlines the methodology for the project…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Intercultural Communication, Electronic Publishing, Cultural Awareness