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Chang, Heejin; Windeatt, Scott – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
There is much evidence to support the occurrence of learning in connection with collaboration, both in face-to-face and online teaching situations, but much less research on how such collaboration develops over the duration of a course. Using Dillenbourg's concepts of "situation," "interactions," "mechanisms," and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
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Vinther, Jane – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
The framework of this study is cooperation between students of English at a Chinese university and their counterparts at a Danish university, i.e. neither group of students are native speakers of English. The theoretical framework for the study is Vygotsky's sociocultural approach combined with the work by a number of researchers on the link…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Constructivism (Learning), Interpersonal Relationship
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Desmarais, Lise – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1999
Describes a course that used e-mail to improve the German and Spanish written language skills of Canadian Foreign Service Officers. To lower attrition rates, the course required completion of authentic professional tasks, exposing participants to formal, technical, and informal language. Though initial interest was high, attrition was also high,…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, German, Language Skills
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Shang, Hui-Fang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
This study focused on examining the overall effect of using email on the improvement of writing performance in aspects of syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy and lexical density, as well as investigating the relation between the number of email exchanges and writing performance. Subjects in this study were 40 non-traditional EFL students…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Reinders, Hayo; Lazaro, Noemi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
Self-access centres are sometimes portrayed as being at the forefront of pedagogical innovation. They are also said to be technology-rich language learning environments. In practice, however, the application of technology in a self-access environment has proven to be a challenge. This article focuses on 10 self-access centres that were found to be…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Technology, Educational Environment, Technology Uses in Education
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Vinagre, Margarita – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
This article describes an email project carried out jointly by the Institute of Modern Languages and the Department of Applied Languages at Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) in the US during the first semester of the academic year 2004-2005. Students worked with a partner exchanging…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, International Programs, Language Proficiency, Electronic Mail