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Paul, Jing Z.; Friginal, Eric – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated the effects of Facebook and Twitter on foreign language (Chinese) learners' written production in both short- (10 days) and long-term (50 days) pseudo-experimental settings. Adopting two concepts (i.e. symmetric vs. asymmetric) from matrix theory in social network analysis, we categorized Facebook as a symmetric social…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Network Analysis, Sentences
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Walczyk, Jeffrey J.; Tcholakian, Talar; Igou, Frank; Dixon, Alexa P. – Reading Psychology, 2014
For more than 100 years, research on the psychology of reading has proliferated. In this article, the authors wish to help modern reading researchers understand the origins of the discipline and benefit from its history. This article draws heavily on Edmund Burke Huey's 1908 landmark volume "The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading,"…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Educational History, Reading Instruction, Scientific Methodology
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Spelling error corpora can be collected from students' written essays, homework, dictations, translations, tests and lecture notes. Spelling errors can be classified into whole word errors, faulty graphemes and faulty phonemes in which graphemes are deleted, added, reversed or substituted. They can be used for identifying phonological and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spelling, Error Patterns