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Wang, Yanjun; Grant, Scott; Grist, Matthew – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The article reports on a study that incorporated an immersive 3D virtual environment, created in Second Life (SL) into the curriculum of a Chinese program, including its development, implementation and evaluation. This innovation supplemented classroom teaching of Chinese language throughout one semester at a regional Australian university. Using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chinese, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
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Yi-chen Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Public speaking is considered the most anxiety-provoking speaking activity for English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. While traditional lecture-based classrooms hinder EFL learners' constant practice and frequent interaction due to large class sizes and limited time, recent developments in technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI),…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
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Hsu, Liwei – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' levels of attention and meditation as well as brainwaves while interacting with an interlocutor in three different second-language (L2) socialization contexts--with another human in person, with another person through a virtual platform, and with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot--were…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lin, Vivien; Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Chen, Nian-Shing; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
The field of language education has experienced a rise in using virtual reality (VR) to support interactive, contextualized, and collaborative language learning in recent years. The current study investigates the effects of auditory, visual, and textual input on speaking and writing in English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) through immersive,…
Descriptors: Tourism, English for Special Purposes, Undergraduate Students, Computer Simulation
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Wigham, Ciara R.; Chanier, Thierry – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
This paper reports on a study of the interactions between text chat and audio modalities in L2 communication in a synthetic (virtual) world and observes whether the text chat modality was used for corrective feedback and the characteristics of the latter. This is examined within the context of a hybrid content and language integrated learning…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Social Systems, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication
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Wehner, Amy K.; Gump, Andrew W.; Downey, Steve – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Virtual worlds are an emerging technology in computer-assisted learning. Due to the novelty of these new learning spaces, little research has been done on the use or the effects on students learning foreign languages. This research looks at how the use of the virtual world Second Life affects the motivation of students in an undergraduate Spanish…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Anxiety