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Negotiation of Meaning to Comprehend Hypertexts through Peer Questioning
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Hsieh, Pei-Yin – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
Many college students who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are less-proficient readers as they have few opportunities to negotiate their perspectives for creating meaning through peer questioning in onsite instruction. This study reports on using online peer questioning to enhance less-proficient college students' negotiation of meaning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), College Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency
Exploring EFL Teachers' CALL Knowledge and Competencies: In-Service Program Perspectives
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Liu, Mei-Hui; Kleinsasser, Robert C. – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
This article describes quantitative and qualitative data providing perspectives on how six English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocational high school teachers perceived CALL knowledge and competencies in a yearlong technology-enriched professional development program. The teachers' developing technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Knowledge Level
Rethinking Transfer: Learning from CALL Teacher Education as Consequential Transition
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Chao, Chin-chi – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
Behind CALL teacher education (CTE) there is an unproblematized consensus of transfer, which suggests a positivist and tool-centered view of learning gains that differs from the sociocultural focus of recent teacher education research. Drawing on Beach's (2003) conceptualization of transfer as "consequential transition," this qualitative…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Praxis, Theory Practice Relationship