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Lee, Ju Seong; Lu, Ying – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This study explores the relationship between the L2 Motivational Self System--namely, the ideal L2 self and the ought-to L2 self--and L2 Willingness to Communicate (L2 WTC) in the classroom (a typical place for English communication among EFL learners) and in the extramural digital setting (an emerging English communication channel increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Self Concept, Learning Motivation
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Goh, Alexis P. I.; Hong, Yi-Chun; Chen, Nian-Shing – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Few studies have focused on the comparison between collaborative and individual digital game-based learning (DGBL) performance for students who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In collaborative DGBL, how the composition of foreign language anxiety (FLA) within groups of students affects students' performance remains uncertain. This study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Cooperation
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Tzu-Yu Tai; Howard Hao-Jan Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
English speaking is considered the most difficult and anxiety-provoking language skill for EFL learners due to lack of access to authentic language use, fear of making mistakes, and peers' negative comments. With automatic speech recognition and natural language processing, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have potential in foreign language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Speech Communication, English Language Learners, Anxiety
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Yang, Ya-Ting Carolyn; Chen, Yi-Chien; Hung, Hsiu-Ting – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The present research examined the effectiveness of digital storytelling (DST) on foreign language learners' English speaking and creative thinking. In this study, DST was realized in the form of an interdisciplinary project integrated in a partnership between an English course and a computer course, with the class time of the former devoted to the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, English (Second Language)
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Tai, Kai-Hsin; Lin, Pei-Hsin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Remote association requires players to use their mental transformation to identify objects' relationships by activating knowledge application. A Chinese Remote Association game was designed (example question: [characters omitted], where the answer is [character omitted]) to explore learners' cognitive and affective effects, and then eighth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Grade 8, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Ware, Paige; Kessler, Greg – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study builds on research examining the in-school technology practices of adolescent language learners by exploring the patterns of classroom literacy practices that emerge when a telecollaborative project is introduced into a conventional secondary language classroom. We draw on the conceptual frameworks and discourse analytical tools…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Case Studies
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Forsyth, Carol M.; Luce, Christine; Zapata-Rivera, Diego; Jackson, G. Tanner; Evanini, Keelan; So, Youngsoon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated a new conversation-based assessment for English language learners. In this assessment, students converse with animated agents in natural language conversations to assess various aspects of English language learning. In a between subjects design, 31 students (N = 31) were asked questions by either the newly created system or…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Formative Evaluation
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Chen, Jen Jun; Yang, Shu Ching – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This case study investigated the effectiveness of the United Beyond Our Diversity (UBOD) project for the development of language skills and intercultural communicative competence (including attitudes, knowledge, skills, and critical intercultural awareness) in Taiwanese seventh grade learners. The learners' attitudes and evaluations of UBOD were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Internet, Multicultural Education
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Shadiev, Rustam; Hsu, Jung-Lung; Huang, Yueh-Min; Hsu, Guo-Liang; Lin, Yi-Chun – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study applied storytelling in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom in order to promote speaking skills. Students were asked to practice speaking EFL through producing individual and interactive stories with a Web-based multimedia system. We aimed to investigate an effectiveness of applying individual and interactive storytelling…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Animation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning