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Zhihui Zhang; Xiaomeng Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Blended learning combines online and traditional classroom instruction, aiming to optimize educational outcomes. Despite its potential, student engagement with online components remains a significant challenge. Gamification has emerged as a popular solution to bolster engagement, though its effectiveness is contested, with research yielding mixed…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Blended Learning, Learning Motivation, Language Proficiency
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Ekici, Murat – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Flipped learning is considered an increasingly common strategy along with some drawbacks. Gamification has the significant potential to deal with the drawbacks. This study presents a systematic literature review on the use of gamification in flipped learning research. To demonstrate its effectiveness clearly, the only empirical research was…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Databases
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Lixuan Sun; Adelina Asmawi; Hui Dong; Xiaotian Zhang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Amidst the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates the impact of Problem-based Language Learning (PBLL) using DingTalk on enhancing Business English Writing skills among Chinese undergraduates. Employing a mixed-method approach, the research involved two phases. In the quantitative phase, a twelve-week quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Nazia Habib; Muhammad Mumtaz; Sean Watts – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The current study was conducted to identify the perceived effectiveness of online learning systems for urban and rural students of higher education institutions in Pakistan. A survey of 592 students from ten public and private sector institutions in Pakistan was conducted to obtain their opinions against eleven factors of perceived learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Higher Education
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Liu, Chen-Chen; Liu, Shi-Jie; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tu, Yun-Fang; Wang, Youmei; Wang, Naini – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence, automatic writing evaluation (AWE) has received much attention from English Foreign Language (EFL) writing teachers. However, the obstacles and potential problems of integrating AWE in EFL writing instruction have yet to be explored. Scholars have indicated that the effectiveness of AWE in EFL…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Okyar, Hatice – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The main aim of this article is to determine Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) students' perceptions about learning English through distance education (henceforth DE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. To realize this aim, the study adopted a qualitative research design and used the metaphor elicitation technique, semi-structured telephone…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Distance Education
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Bailey, Daniel; Almusharraf, Norah; Hatcher, Ryan – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Intrinsic value is related to intrinsic motivation and influences learners' decisions to begin, continue, and return to learning tasks. In the context of a fully online foreign language English course, we used structural equation modeling to explore the motivation for asynchronous collaborative writing practice, motivation for video-synchronous…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Decision Making, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing
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Tsai, Chia-Hui; Cheng, Ching-Hsue; Yeh, Duen-Yian; Lin, Shih-Yun – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study applied a quasi-experimental design to investigate the influence and predictive power of learner motivation for achievement, employing a mobile game-based English learning approach. A system called the Happy English Learning System, integrating learning material into a game-based context, was constructed and installed on mobile devices…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Techaraungrong, Piyaporn; Suksakulchai, Surachai; Kaewprapan, Wacheerapan; Murphy, Elizabeth – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The purpose of the study reported on in this paper was to design and test multimedia for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) learners. The study focused on counting, addition and subtraction with grade one (age 7) DHH learners in Thailand. The multimedia created for the study was informed by design considerations for DHH learners of arithmetic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students