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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This study reports on investigating students' English translation performance and their use of reading strategies in an elective English writing course offered to senior students of English as a Foreign Language for 100 minutes per week for 12 weeks. A courseware-implemented instruction combined with a task-based learning approach was adopted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Technical Institutes, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Howard Hao-Jan; Wu, Jian-Cheng; Yang, Christine Ting-Yu; Pan, Iting – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
The development of collocational knowledge is important for foreign language learners; unfortunately, learners often have difficulties producing proper collocations in the target language. Among the various ways of collocation learning, the DDL (data-driven learning) approach encourages the independent learning of collocations and allows learners…
Descriptors: Chinese, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
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Chen, Wen-Chun; Shih, Yu-Chih Doris; Liu, Gi-Zen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
This research investigated if and how the instructional design affected the learning outcome in a blog-mediated project, namely students' communicative writing in the social media. Thirty-four college-level English learners from two universities in Taiwan participated in the telecollaboration. The current research continues to highlight the social…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Social Networks, Electronic Publishing
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Liu, Pei-Lin – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
This study examined the influence of morphological instruction in an eye-tracking English vocabulary recognition task. Sixty-eight freshmen enrolled in an English course and received either traditional or morphological instruction for learning English vocabulary. The experimental part of the study was conducted over two-hour class periods for…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Morphology (Languages)
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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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Ko, Chao-Jung – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
This study investigated the possibility that initial-level learners may acquire oral skills through synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Twelve Taiwanese French as a foreign language (FFL) students, divided into three groups, were required to conduct a variety of tasks in one of the three learning environments (video/audio, audio,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Skill Development