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Laborda, Jesus Garcia – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
A long-standing debate in native and foreign language learning revolves around the use of computers to promote genuine social and professional communication. Webquests are a very common way of using Web resources to research a variety of topics, and if appropriately used can trigger the situations necessary to develop both written and oral…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English for Special Purposes, Tourism, Classroom Communication
Matsuzaki, Takeshi – Online Submission, 1998
Classroom second language instruction can be characterized as one of the following: focus-on-formS, focus-on-meaning, or focus-on-form. The book titled "Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition" (Doughty & Williams, 1998) argues for the desirability of focus-on-form over focus-on-formS and focus-on-meaning, discussing the efficacy…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Design
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Loucky, John Paul – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
To more thoroughly analyze and compare the types of dictionaries being used by Japanese college students in three college engineering classes, two kinds of surveys were designed. The first was a general survey about purchase, use and preferences regarding electronic dictionaries. The second survey asked questions about how various computerised…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Web Sites, Second Language Learning