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Taguchi, Naoko; Dixon, Daniel H. – CALICO Journal, 2023
Game-based instruction has been praised as an effective approach to second language (L2) development, as it can provide a low-stakes, fun, and engaging learning environment. However, in designing digital games for L2 learning, it is important to consider how various game designs and mechanics can affect learning gains. In the current study…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Pragmatics
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Chun, Dorothy M.; Karimi, Honeiah; Sañosa, David Joshua – CALICO Journal, 2022
In line with the 2021 CALICO Conference theme "Global realities," we presented a plenary on how immersive virtual reality (IVR) could be used for second language learning by allowing learners to virtually travel around the globe via headset. The main affordances of virtual reality (VR) technology include immersing learners in an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Jones, Linda C.; Jennings, Freddie J. – CALICO Journal, 2022
This current study examined the effects of full captions (n = 37), keyword captions (n = 38), and no captions (n = 37) on students' ability to gain pictorial knowledge from a 5 minutes and 52 seconds French language video. After completing a pre-vocabulary recognition test to determine the level of equality between groups, students watched the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Captions, Video Technology, Second Language Learning
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Joshua Matthews; Kriss Lange – CALICO Journal, 2024
Aural vocabulary knowledge (AVK) of high-frequency words is critical for second language listening comprehension. However, learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), despite considerable periods of language study, often do not have the AVK needed for basic communicative competence. A mixed methods approach is applied to determine whether…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Schuetze, Ulf; Weimer-Stuckmann, Gerlinde – CALICO Journal, 2011
Second language learners are faced with the challenging task of remembering many new words. Exactly how learners are supposed to accomplish that task is disputed. Research on lexical processing that has been carried out in cognitive psychology showed that rehearsing words in expanded patterns, that is, with a delay between each rehearsal, leads to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Language Processing, Retention (Psychology)
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Dehaan, Jonathan; Johnson, Neil H.; Yoshimura, Noriko; Kondo, Takako – CALICO Journal, 2012
This paper details the use of a free and access-controlled wiki as the learning management system for a four-week teaching module designed to improve the oral communication skills of Japanese university EFL students. Students engaged in repeated experiential learning cycles of planning, doing, observing, and evaluating their performance of a role…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Speech Communication
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Oskoz, Ana – CALICO Journal, 2009
Learners engaged in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) work collaboratively to construct knowledge by providing each other with implicit and explicit feedback. In addition to its value in encouraging learners to make modifications toward target-like forms, the implicitness or explicitness of the feedback provides a means to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ma, Qing – CALICO Journal, 2008
CALL evaluation is important because it is the most efficient means to prove CALL effectiveness. While both learning process and learning outcome should be investigated in empirical evaluation, the precise relationship between the two needs to be examined closely. Only by doing so can we identify useful CALL design features that facilitate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning
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Basharina, Olga – CALICO Journal, 2009
This research focuses on the kinds of learning afforded by asynchronous international computer-mediated communication (I-CMC) among Japanese, Mexican, and Russian English language learners and the role of student agency in learning. To find learning evidence, the discourse analysis and content analysis of interaction protocols were conducted in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication
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Tochon, Francois – CALICO Journal, 2008
The paper reviews 25 years of experiences with video feedback. Video allows for "situated research," referring to lived experience for the purpose of understanding and reflection. Video has thus freed research from an exclusively laboratory-based approach and broadened its scope to include self-viewing and other-viewing in reflective groups. Video…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Videotape Recordings, Educational History
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Van Deusen-Scholl, Nelleka; Frei, Christina; Dixon, Edward – CALICO Journal, 2005
Recent innovations in technology allow foreign language learners and their instructors to interact both inside and beyond the classroom using a variety of communicative tools. As a consequence, the classroom has been transformed into an extended learning environment which has had a profound effect on both student and teacher roles. However, the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction