Teaching languages online: Professional vision in the making

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Volume 24 Number 3, October 2020

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Meskill, Carla Anthony, Natasha Sadykova, Gulnara

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2020-10-09T17:54:25Z

date.available:

2020-10-09T17:54:25Z

date.issued:

2020-10-15

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This experimental study examined the design and effectiveness of embodied interactions for learning. The researchers designed a digital learning environment integrating body joint mapping sensors to teach novice learners Chinese characters, and examined whether the embodied interaction would lead to greater knowledge acquisition in language learning compared to the conventional mouse-based interaction. Fifty-three adult learners were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The study adopted a pretest, an immediate posttest, and a delayed posttest on knowledge acquisition. Although higher scores were found for the embodied interaction group in both posttests, only the delayed posttest showed a statistically significant group difference. The findings suggested that active embodied actions lead to better knowledge retention compared with the passive visual embodiment. The body-moving process works as an alternative and complementary encoding strategy for character understanding and memorization by associating the semantic meaning of a character with the construction of a body posture.

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175

identifier.citation:

Meskill, C., Anthony, N. & Sadykova, G. (20YY). Teaching languages online: Professional vision in the making. Language Learning & Technology, 24(3), 160–175. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44745

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1094-3501

identifier.uri:

http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44745

number:

3

publicationname:

Language Learning & Technology

publisher:

University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology (co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin)

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/item/10125-44745/

startingpage:

160

subject:

Online Language Teaching Online Language Education Online Language Learning Professional Vision

title:

Teaching languages online: Professional vision in the making

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Article

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Text

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24