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Ting-Chia Hsu; Ching Chang; Tien-Hsiu Jen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Young learners' vocabulary learning needs interaction with language input when they are engaged in an activity. Given that AI-supported image recognition technologies offer hands-on learning in authentic contexts, and that self-regulated learning (SRL) enables learners to monitor and evaluate their learning when interacting with multi-sensory…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Multisensory Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Strategies
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Moorhouse, Benjamin L.; Beaumont, Andrew M. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Involving parents in their children's school-based English language learning is beneficial to learners' academic achievement as well as their language and literacy development. However, involving parents can be challenging. This study reports on one teacher's use of a digital learning platform, Seesaw, with his third-grade (7 to 8 year-olds)…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Xin, Joy F.; L. Affrunti, Rachel – Computers in the Schools, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine whether English language learners (ELLs) would increase their vocabulary scores in the areas of word recognition, word meaning, and word application when iPads were used during vocabulary instruction. Five third-grade ELLs, at risk of being diagnosed as having learning disabilities, participated in the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction, Vocabulary Development, English Language Learners
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Botturi, Luca; Kappler, Daniela; Negrini, Lucio – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article presents the design, implementation and outcomes of AlpConnectar, a Swiss project that exploits technologies for digitally-supported language exchange (LE) in primary schools. Launched in 2013, the project involves three Swiss cantons where different languages are spoken (namely German, French and Italian) and respectively taught as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Information Technology
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Rachels, Jason R.; Rockinson-Szapkiw, Amanda J. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, non-equivalent control group design was used to examine the effect of a mobile gamification application on third and fourth grade students' Spanish language achievement and student academic self-efficacy. In this study, the treatment group's Spanish language instruction was through the use of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Telecommunications
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So, Youngsoon; Zapata-Rivera, Diego; Cho, Yeonsuk; Luce, Christine; Battistini, Laura – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
We explored the use of technology-assisted, trialogue-based tasks to measure the English language proficiency of students learning English as a second or foreign language. A presumed benefit of the system for language assessment is its suitability for use in scenario-based tasks that integrate multiple language skills. This integration allows test…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Technology Uses in Education
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Alvarez-Marinelli, Horacio; Blanco, Marta; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Irby, Beverly J.; Tong, Fuhui; Stanley, Katherine; Fan, Yinan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study presents first-year findings of a 25-week longitudinal project derived from a two-year longitudinal randomized trial study at the elementary school level in Costa Rica on effective computer-assisted language learning (CALL) approaches in an English as a foreign language (EFL) setting. A pre-test-post-test experimental group design was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Limited English Speaking, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
Smiley-Blanton, Regina – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that all public school students, including English language learners, achieve proficiency in reading, math, and science by 2014 as measured on state assessments. English language learners enrolled in public schools for the first time receive a 1-year deferment from these state assessments in subjects…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Grade 3
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Lopez, Omar S. – Computers & Education, 2010
This study presents the findings from the first-year evaluation of the Round Rock Independent School District's (ISD) Digital Learning Classroom project, an initiative focused on the improvement of English Language Learners' (ELL) learning using interactive whiteboard (IWB) technology. An objective of the evaluation was to determine the extent IWB…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning
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Poulsen, Robert; Hastings, Peter; Allbritton, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
Children from non-English-speaking homes are doubly disadvantaged when learning English in school. They enter school with less prior knowledge of English sounds, word meanings, and sentence structure, and they get little or no reinforcement of their learning outside of the classroom. This article compares the classroom standard practice of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Prior Learning, Sentence Structure, Sustained Silent Reading