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Download full textEaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2012
Students of second and international languages in Alberta do not receive sufficient hours of instruction through formal classroom time alone to achieve distinguished levels of proficiency (Archibald, J., Roy, S., Harmel, S., Jesney, K., Dewey, E., Moisik, S., et al., 2006). This research study uses a constructivist approach (Guba & Lincoln,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Languages, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedHutchinson, Jill – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
The emerging trend of social software technology can address many different second language (L2) learner needs through authentic social interaction and a variety of scaffolding processes. Social software connects education with real-life learning and interests, and engages and motivates students. It can facilitate learning environments that are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Computer Software
Direct linkMorita, Naoko – Language and Education, 2009
Recent research has explored the complex, situated process by which students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds become socialized into academic discourses and practices. As part of a multiple case study involving seven international students, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the academic discourse socialization…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Academic Discourse, Socialization, English (Second Language)
Hoven, Debra; Palalas, Agnieszka – CALICO Journal, 2011
An exploratory study conducted at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada between 2007 and 2009 investigated language learning with mobile devices as an approach to augmenting ESP learning by taking learning outside the classroom into the real-world context. In common with findings at other community colleges, this study identified inadequate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Listening Skills, Immigrants
Schuetze, Ulf – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This article reports on a study carried out twice on an online second language course that was set up between a Canadian University and a German University. In that course, students of German in Canada and students of English in Germany exchanged 2,412 messages in 2004 and 1,831 messages in 2005. A list of processing criteria for assessment was…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Second Languages, Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Li, Guofang – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2007
Based on the theoretical perspectives of socio-constructivism and language socialization, this study reports two Chinese Canadian first grader's experiences of language and literacy learning in and out of school in a unique sociocultural setting where they were "the mainstream." The article examines the students' reading and writing…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Ethnography, Cultural Differences
