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Zhi Quan; Lynn Grant; Darryl Hocking – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
As a corpus-assisted method for language pedagogy, DDL (data-driven learning) may have the potential to enhance language exposure and promote active learner engagement. Concordancing, or KWIC (Key Words in Context), has been the traditional method used in DDL to retrieve numerous language examples, while the method has limitations with…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Salah M. Ali; Kamariah Yunus; Turky Alshaikhi; Abdussalam Marie Aliia – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2025
The aim of the study is to investigate the use of digital technology in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom using various digital tools through computers and cell phones. These tools and their effect on self-perceived knowledge, learning, and English use were analyzed at the University of Tabuk. The study was conducted on a sample of 605…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
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Arndt, Henriette L.; Granfeldt, Jonas; Gullberg, Marianne – Language Learning, 2023
This paper introduces the Lang-Track-App, a smartphone application and backend system to aid second language acquisition researchers in implementing the experience sampling method (ESM). Surveying research participants with the Lang-Track-App multiple times per day can yield exceptionally rich data that can be analyzed in multiple ways. This…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mroz, Aurore P.; Thrasher, Tricia – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This longitudinal study explores how the language proficiency of eight (N = 8) US-affiliated university students developed relative to their smartphone usage during study abroad (SA) in Paris. Phone usage was tracked daily with Space, proficiency weekly using NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do statements, and language use monthly via a Language Engagement…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, French, Second Language Learning, College Students
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Christopher, Adam – International Journal on E-Learning, 2020
There are two important dimensions to successful second language learning: what goes on inside the classroom and what goes on outside of the classroom (Richards, 2015). This paper investigates smartphone use for online learning of English among Japanese university students using online surveys and semi-structured interviews. The investigation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Arndt, Henriette L.; Granfeldt, Jonas; Gullberg, Marianne – Second Language Research, 2023
Frequent language exposure and use are among the most important conditions for successful language learning, whether in classrooms, during study abroad, or in other informal contexts. Research probing exposure and usage often relies on one-off self-report questionnaires in which participants estimate their typical level of language exposure over…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
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Thorne, Steven L.; Hellermann, John; Jakonen, Teppo – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place-based contexts of language use enabled by locative media. The focal pedagogical intervention utilized mobile augmented reality (AR) activities, the development of which was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology, Place Based Education
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Chan, Venus – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: This research is inspired by the challenges encountered in interpreter training, changes in learning needs in the technological era, the educational paradigm shift caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of studies on combining virtual reality (VR)_and mobile technologies, and literature gaps in the field of the incorporation of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Translation
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Muftah, Muneera – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Web-based language learning (WBLL) materials have long been favored by English language instructors because they are plentiful, easily accessible, user-friendly and, most importantly, free. This research looks into the effects of learning the simple perfect tense translation in three different English translation classes that used three…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Translation
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Abu-Zahra, Majdi J.; Shayeb, Ahmad Sh. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This research tries to investigate the importance of mobile translation apps when carrying out translation activities in the classroom. Specifically, this is a semester-long study which attempts to see how beneficial it is to allow translation students enrolled in the translation program at the Department of Languages and Translation at Birzeit…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Class Activities
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Brown, Sally – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: The main purpose is to investigate what resources young emergent bilinguals use to communicate a multimodal response to children's literature. In particular, attention is paid to the ways students translanguage as part of the learning process. Design/methodology/approach: An ethnography-in-education approach was used to capture the social…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Semiotics, Signs, Bilingualism
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Wang, Na; Chen, Juanwen; Tai, Mankin; Zhang, Jingyuan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This article reports the design of a course blended through a small private online course in a Chinese university EFL context, with an emphasis on the blended learning environment created thereby and on learners' perceptions of their blended learning. In a survey-based approach, 1603 students' experiences of blended EFL learning in two consecutive…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Forti, Luciana – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Concordance-based Data-Driven Learning (DDL) aims to help second language learners infer language usage rules from language usage regularities. A number of DDL pedagogical treatments have focussed on phraseological units such as collocations, widely recognised as a central component of second language learning. This study evaluates DDL effects…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Data Use
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Blattner, Geraldine; Dalola, Amanda – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study seeks to further the research on online language learning by examining the level at which intermediate ESL students understand and process sociopragmatic information in their second language (L2) in globally networked environments like Twitter. In this semester-long study, L2 English learners from a variety of first languages (Chinese,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Handheld Devices
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Totanes, B. C.; Lintao, R. B. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
The present study seeks to determine significant similarities and differences of teacher-textism and student-textism styles. It also investigates on the use of textism in the actual class discussion shared by the participants of the study. To wit, results show that textism is significantly utilized by both teachers and students (12.84%). The…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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