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Learners' Engagement on a Social Networking Platform: An Ecological Analysis
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Lyu, Boning; Lai, Chun – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
Language learners are actively engaging in language learning beyond the classroom. However, social networking sites, despite playing a major role in people's lives, have been found to be rarely incorporated into language learners' learning ecologies. An understanding of the factors that shape learners' engagement on instruction-oriented social…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Media, Electronic Learning
Enhancing the Use of Evidence in Argumentative Writing through Collaborative Processing of Content-Based Automated Writing Evaluation Feedback
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Shi, Zhan; Liu, Fengkai; Lai, Chun; Jin, Tan – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) systems have been found to enhance the accuracy, readability, and cohesion of writing responses (Stevenson & Phakiti, 2019). Previous research indicates that individual learners may have difficulty utilizing content-based AWE feedback and collaborative processing of feedback might help to cope with this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Accuracy
A Framework for Developing Self-Directed Technology Use for Language Learning
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Lai, Chun – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
Critical to maximizing the potential of technology for learning is enhancing language learners' self-directed use of technology for learning purposes. This study aimed to enhance our understanding of the determinants of self-directed technology use through the construction of a structural equation modelling (SEM) framework of factors and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, College Students