- Can software support children's vocabulary development?
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...learners, I was unable to analyze the 16 products from the standpoint of English language
learners.
Process for Selecting Target Words
From each software product in the Direct-Approach Group, I random...
by Julie Wood
in Volume 05 Number 1, January 2001
- Strategies for effective communication in Dutch as a lingua franca telecollaboration
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...learners of Dutch,
enhancing their language skills, but also a feeling of solidarity with other NNS Dutch users.
The practical implications of the study include a need to involve LCTL learners in ...
by Aleksandra Wach, Robertus de Louw, Mikołaj Buczak, Gert Loosen
in Volume 29 Number 2, February 2025 Special Issue: Indigenous Languages and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) with Technology
- Learning to identify and actualize affordances in a new tool
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...learners achieve pedagogical goals. The term “techno-pedagogical competence” is
used by Guichon and Hauck (2011) to describe areas relating to both technology and pedagogy that
teachers need. Their ...
by Karen Haines
in Volume 19 Number 1, February 2015 Special Issues on Teacher Education and CALL
- Commenting to learn: Evidence of language and intercultural learning in comments on YouTube videos
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...Learner
Autonomy, Video
APA Citation: Benson, P. (2015). Commenting to learn: Evidence of language and
intercultural learning in comments on YouTube videos. Language Learning & Technology
19(3), 8...
by Phil Benson
in Volume 19 Number 3, October 2015 Special Issues on Digital Literacies and Language Learning
- A meta-synthesis of empirical research on the effectiveness of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in SLA
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...learners’ L1 has a role to play in the effectiveness of
CMC in SLA.
Learners’ L2
Some languages are easier to learn than others, and learners might employ different learning strategies
when lear...
by Huifen Lin
in Volume 19 Number 2, June 2015
- Podcasting: An Effective Tool for Honing Language Students’ Pronunciation?
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...learners’ awareness of the important role of intonation systems is an attainable aim”
(Ramírez-Verdugo, 2006, p. 153) that can ultimately help to improve students’ FL pronunciation.
In addition to c...
by Lara Ducate, Lara Lomicka
in Volume 13 Number 3, October 2009 Special Issue On Technology And Learning Pronunciation
- Web-based Activities and SLA: A Conversation Analysis Research Approach
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...learners in
touch with native speakers. The subjects were foreign language university graduates without any previous
computer skills who were enrolled in a postgraduate course in Foreign Tourism and...
by Raffaella Negretti
in Volume 03 Number 1, July 1999
- Exploring AI-assistance in L2 Chinese writing with standardized assessment tasks
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...learners expressed how helpful the resource
was. The findings of X. Li et al. (2023) inform the current study’s rationale to prepare L2 learners of
Mandarin Chinese for the Advanced Placement (AP) C...
by Dan Song, Alexander Fukin Tang
in Volume 29 Number 2, February 2025 Special Issue: Indigenous Languages and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) with Technology
- Applications of Text Analysis Tools for Spoken Response Grading
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...learners. Communicative competence refers to the
ability of language learners to organize language appropriately using grammatical and textual skills as
well as develop pragmatic competence at the i...
by Scott Crossley, Danielle McNamara
in Volume 17 Number 2, June 2013
- Abdullah's Blogging: A generation 1.5 student enters the blogosphere
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...learner" to describe how these students can rely on
their oral skills to compensate for the lack of development of their written skills. Thus, the problem is not
that they have lower levels of writi...
by Joel Boch
in Volume 11 Number 2, June 2007