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Ilaria Compagnoni; Fabiana Fazzi – AILA Review, 2024
Digital mediation strategies are key soft skills to develop amongst students as they prepare to interact in increasingly collaborative settings, socially and professionally. Defined as a set of communication strategies deployed to reach mutual agreement over a dispute, mediation enables students' cooperation in task-based language teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Herzig, Melissa; Allen, Thomas E. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
Design features of American Sign Language (ASL)-English bilingual storybook apps on the tablet computers, based on learning research, are intended to facilitate independent and interactive learning of English print literacy and of ASL skill among young learners. In 2013, the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Vocabulary Skills, Computer Software
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Schulz-Heidorf, Katrin; Jernes, Margrethe; Hoel, Trude; Mangen, Anne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
This article presents findings from a study carried out with groups of children (N = 72; M = 57.2 months) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions in Norway. Twelve teachers read two stories, once in a print book format and once in a picture book app, with groups of children. Children's and teachers' verbal engagement was coded…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Norwegian, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Staels, Eva; Van den Broeck, Wim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
In this study, we examined whether orthographic learning can be demonstrated in disabled readers learning to read in a transparent orthography (Dutch). In addition, we tested the effect of the use of text-to-speech software, a new form of direct instruction, on orthographic learning. Both research goals were investigated by replicating Share's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Orthographic Symbols
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Yilmaz, Adnan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
The present empirical study scrutinizes the use of short stories via computer technologies in teaching and learning English language. The objective of the study is two-fold: to examine how short stories could be used through computer programs in teaching and learning English and to collect data about students' perceptions of this technique via…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
"Read Naturally" is designed to improve reading fluency using a combination of books, audio-tapes, and computer software. This program includes three main strategies: (1) repeated reading of English text for oral reading fluency development; (2) teacher modeling of story reading; and (3) systematic monitoring of student progress by…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software, Story Reading