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Sue Creagh; Skye Playsted; Anna Hogan; Tae-Hee Choi; Bob Lingard – TESOL in Context, 2023
Privatisation and commercialisation in education encompass a range of interrelated practices, including the outsourcing of educational services as well as increased reliance on commercially produced resources for the delivery of learning and assessment. An increase in these practices has accompanied the shift from centralised systemic management…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Nicholes, Justin – TESL-EJ, 2016
This classroom quasi-experiment aimed to learn if and to what degree supplementing classroom instruction with Rosetta Stone (RS), Tell Me More (TMM), Memrise (MEM), or ESL WOW (WOW) impacted high-stakes English test performance in areas of university-level writing, reading, speaking, listening, and grammar. Seventy-eight (N = 78) Chinese learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Courseware
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Mukundan, Jayakaran; Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Sayadian, Sima – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present paper reports the findings of a study that investigated the physical and technical characteristics of the English language teaching courseware in Malaysia. A randomly selected group of English language teachers in Malaysia (n = 200) were surveyed to evaluate the courseware. SPSS (18.0) was applied to analyze the data. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Arulselvi, Evangelin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study is aimed at finding the effect of Instructional software program in the learning of grammar on the achievement of teacher training students of Namakkal District. Parallel group experimental method was adopted in this study. A sample of 80 students studying in the teacher training college were selected on the basis of their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Courseware
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
Butler, Kevin – District Administration, 2009
Tapping into technology for foreign language learning is important, given that such learning is seen as vital to the nation's economic and cultural well-being. The development of technology has dovetailed nicely with a new paradigm of foreign language education, says Marty Abbott, director of education for the American Council on the Teaching of…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms
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Wildner, Siegrun – CALICO Journal, 2000
Using national technology goals and standards and institutional factors as a framework, discusses the planning process and the initial phases of the implementation of a model of technology integration into the foreign language preservice teacher education program for K-12 teachers. Also provides suggestions for instructional goals and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Teachers
Underwood, John H. – 1984
This analysis of the state of the art of computer programs and programming for language teaching has two parts. In the first part, an overview of the theory and practice of language teaching, Noam Chomsky's view of language, and the implications and problems of generative theory are presented. The theory behind the input model of language…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
Diamond, Kathleen K. – 1997
A study investigated the attitudes of language program students, teachers, and administrators concerning the effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) instruction for adults, and specifically concerning EXITO courseware, a Spanish language program developed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Interviews with an adult language…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software