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Poole, Robert – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The present study explores the attitudes of novice teachers towards corpus-aided language learning and teaching in an undergraduate writing course for multilingual students at a large US public university. The participating instructors facilitated approximately 75 minutes of corpus training for their students and implemented 4-6 corpus activities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Beginning Teachers, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
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Sun, Susan Y. H. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to present a specific case of CALL task design adopting the patterns-based learning design approach. The approach provides a common framework/vocabulary for educational designers, particularly teachers, to systematically capture, articulate, make explicit, share and reuse expert knowledge of teaching and good design.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Moradimokhles, Hossein – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
In the present study, three groups of interpreter trainees were formed, two experimental groups, i.e., blended prosody instruction (BPI) and computer-assisted prosody training (CAPT), and one control group (CON). In this experiment the participants took part in a four-week teaching program for 16 sessions (60 minutes per session), i.e., 16 hours…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Computer Software, Pronunciation Instruction
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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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Tecedor, Marta; Perez, Alejandro – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This manuscript contributes to the existing body of literature on learner training in computer-enhanced learning environments by examining how students conceptualize and experience their roles as learners in flipped Spanish courses and how these interpretations shape their behaviors and beliefs about learning under this new instructional approach.…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Computer Assisted Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Wang, Na; Chen, Juanwen; Zhang, Jingyuan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This paper reports on the development of constructive EAP CALL courseware, and its integration into blended learning contexts, as a solution to the problems in EAP courses in Chinese universities. A case study of a defining skills package, developed for undergraduates at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), is used to…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Courseware
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Schenker, Theresa – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The present study investigated the effects of group set-up in a semester-long telecollaborative discussion forum project in second-semester German. In order to explore whether group set-up affects learning in discussion forums, small groups of non-native speakers (NNS) of German were partnered either with native speakers (NS), other NNS with the…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
The study reports on implementing self-developed English for specific purposes (ESP) courseware for technology industries in an elective course, "English reading for technology," offered to junior students of English as a foreign language in a technical university in southern Taiwan. Courseware implementation was combined with a…
Descriptors: Courseware, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McBride, Kara – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
This study investigated the effects of training learners of English as a foreign language with different rates of speech and controls over speech rate. Subjects were put into one of four treatment groups: (A) trained on listening comprehension materials recorded at a fast speed, (B) trained on slow recordings, (C) given some choice about the…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Speech Communication
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Peterson, Mark – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated learner interaction in a type of real time computer-mediated communication (CMC) where the communication is carried out within a user-created virtual world. The study, which involved undergraduate EFL learners based at two universities in Japan, examined from an interactionist perspective…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Sociocultural Patterns, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries