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Helm, Francesca; Dooly, Melinda – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) once meant principally text-based communication mediated by computers, but rapid technological advances in recent years have heralded an era of multimodal communication with a growing emphasis on audio and video synchronous interaction. As CMC, in all its variants (text chats, video chats, forums, blogs, SMS,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Eksi, Gonca Yangin; Yesilçinar, Sabahattin – English Language Teaching, 2016
Given the limited time for instruction in the classroom, pronunciation often ends up as the most neglected aspect of language teaching. However, in cases when the learner's pronunciation is expected to be good or native-like, as is expected of language teacher trainees, out-of-class self-study options become prominent. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology, Educational Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
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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)
Gimeno, Ana, Ed. – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2015
"The EUROCALL Review" is EUROCALL's open access online scientific journal. Regular sections include: (1) Reports on EUROCALL Special Interest Groups: up-to-date information on SIG activities; (2) Projects: reports on on-going CALL or CALL-related R&D projects; (3) Recommended websites: reports and reviews of examples of good practice…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Web Sites, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2016
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods used to collect pragmatic data in L2 and FL settings. This volume is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Davies, Renaud Jonathan – JALT CALL Journal, 2015
This study explores the role voice microblogging-based activities play in developing learners' spoken production skills. The study involved 33 low-intermediate level university students majoring in English at a private university in Japan. The voice microblogging application used in the study was Bubbly, a cross-platform social networking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
Appel, Christine; Borges, Federico – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
The development of oral skills poses a challenge in language teaching whether this takes place face-to-face, through distance education or in blended learning contexts. Two main problems arise: first of all students don't have enough opportunity to use their target language orally, and secondly, students oral performance is mostly unrecorded and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Sun, Yu-Chih – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
This study uses voice blogs as a platform for an extensive study of language learners' speaking skills. To triangulate the findings, the study collected data by surveying the learners' blogging processes, investigating learning strategies, and conducting retrospective interviews. The results revealed that students (a) developed a series of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Learning Strategies, Learning Motivation
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Perez-Sabater, Carmen; Pena-Martinez, Gemma; Turney, Ed; Montero-Fleta, Begona – Written Communication, 2008
Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Computer Mediated Communication, French, Television