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Appropriating Automated Feedback in L2 Writing: Experiences of Chinese EFL Student Writers
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Jiang, Lianjiang; Yu, Shulin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
While automated feedback is becoming readily accessible to student writers, how students employ resources and strategies to use such feedback remains largely unexplored. Informed by activity theory and the construct of appropriation, this study conceptualizes students' use of automated feedback as social appropriation mediated by resources and…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
Social Media Literacy in L2 Environments: Navigating Anonymous User-Generated Content
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Yeh, Ellen; Swinehart, Nicholas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Online participatory cultures (e.g. social media) present a number of opportunities and challenges for language learners. Learners can collaborate with like-minded peers in online affinity spaces or get crowd-sourced information from the locals of a target culture, but they also run the risk of getting lost in the overwhelming amount of noise and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Social Media, Media Literacy, Use Studies
Making Their Own Landscape: Smartphones and Student Designed Language Learning Environments
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Wrigglesworth, Jonathan; Harvor, Finn – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
This study examined how Korean university students, majoring in English interpretation and translation, used their smartphones to meet their language learning needs. We surveyed 241 students on their smartphone use in four conditions: overall use, use related to coursework, use in English related to coursework, and use in English not related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Listeners' Interactions with Help Options in CALL
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Cárdenas-Claros, Mónica Stella; Gruba, Paul A. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
Help options, or in-built application resources designed to provide assistance, have long been an integral component of computer-based second language (L2) listening materials. Despite their potential to promote comprehension and efficiency, research on the role of help options has lagged. Previous research has found that learners do not often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Perceptions of Webcam Use by Experienced Online Teachers and Learners: A Seeming Disconnect between Research and Practice
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Kozar, Olga – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Videoconferencing tools, like Skype, etc., are being increasingly used in language education worldwide. Despite assumed socio-affective and pedagogical benefits of using webcams in synchronous online language lessons, such as the feeling of co-presence or the possibilities of non-verbal communication, little is known about attitudes held by…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Photography
Wikis as Discussion Forums: Exploring Students' Contribution and Their Attention to Form
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Nami, Fatemeh; Marandi, S. Susan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
The potential of wikis for learning has recently begun to capture the attention of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) research. While students' collaboration, attention to form, and perceptions of wikis in document mode have been widely addressed in previous research, the educational value of wikis used in thread mode, as discussion…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Editing, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies