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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
The implementation of interactive courseware within a task-based learning (TBL) approach was conducted for English Writing for Business to Chinese students in an applied foreign languages department housed in a university of technology. The development of the interactive courseware is based on Mayer's multimedia learning theory, which allows…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Courseware, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
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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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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study reports on integrating ESP (English for specific purposes) multimedia courseware for semiconductor technology into instruction of three different language programs in higher education by using it as a silent partner. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to motivate retention of under-prepared students in an EFL setting. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Technical Education, Foreign Countries
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – ReCALL, 2011
This study reports on the integration of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) multimedia courseware for oral presentations into a self-learning and elective program for non-English major students in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. A computer-aided instruction approach, combined with a task-based learning approach, was adopted.…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, International Trade, Courseware, Questionnaires
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study reports on creative ways of using technology in the classroom, specifically the development of multimedia courseware on World Heritage through which learners are able to upgrade their knowledge and cognition regarding historical and cultural legacies from the past, and to improve English skills. The content of the pilot courseware…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Technical Education
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computers & Education, 2010
This study reports on the development of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) multimedia courseware on oral presentations, and its integration into self-study learning and elective courses for students with different English proficiencies, as one solution to problems in ESP courses in Taiwan. The courseware design is based on Mayer's multimedia…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, International Trade, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware