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Anh Nguyen Nhat; Marni Manegre – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In the context of online stories and games, web forms can be an excellent instrument for generating interactive narratives. Using web forms, authors can enable readers to make decisions that influence the story's progression. Additionally, web forms can be used for interactive reading tasks, not only to increase reading but also to promote foreign…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Interaction, Reading Instruction
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Chen-Yu Liu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained increasing popularity and importance because they greatly expand students' access to university lectures. Although the main component of OCW and MOOC platforms is lectures, their differences may potentially affect the difficulty of academic listening comprehension. This study…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Open Educational Resources, Lecture Method, Second Language Learning
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Gutiérrez-Colón, Mar; Frumuselu, Anca Daniela; Curell, Hortènsia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is a fast-developing field that is constantly growing and evolving in education. There is a lack of publications focusing on implementation studies of MALL as a means to enhance second language/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension. Building on Burston's (2013). Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: a…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Program Implementation
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Chen-Chen Liu; Yu Guo; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu; Zhiqiang Wang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Reading comprehension is critical and challenging for the English learning process. EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners often do not understand the meaning of the text due to the lack of an authentic learning context. This easily leads learners to read literally without deeply understanding. To address this issue, an article-structure…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
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Alicia Ndegwa; Mar Gutiérrez-Colón; Marni Manegre – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The on-going implementation of the new curriculum of the new education system in Kenya includes the administration of technology in the classroom. In this study, this was achieved through the use of a gamified app in a local private school in Kenya, a gamified Swahili app. As Swahili is the language that is Kenya's national and one of two official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, African Languages, Comparative Analysis
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Kao, Yu-Ting; Kuo, Hung-Chih – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study implemented the principles of dynamic assessment (DA) with computer technology, iSpring Quiz Maker, to (1) identify the English listening difficulties of 172 L2 English learners; (2) diagnose their individual learning needs, and (3) promote their future potential abilities. Upon evaluating the participating junior high school students'…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Chih-Ming; Chen, I.-Chun – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
In recent years, English instruction has emphasized the importance of listening comprehension; however, playing CDs in class is still the most widely used approach to practicing English listening skills in Taiwan. It is obvious that this training approach cannot satisfy individual needs, thus reducing the effect of promoting English listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interactive Video, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Garrido-Iñigo, Paloma; Rodríguez-Moreno, Francisco – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This article presents our experience of testing the OpenSim platform as a tool in teaching French to 108 tourism students at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain). The article begins with some theoretical reflections on the behaviour of the student when using a virtual platform by means of an avatar, and with our observations of how this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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Liu, Tammy Sue-Wynne; Liu, Yeu-Ting; Chen, Chun-Yin Doris – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study employed eye-tracking technology to probe the online reading behavior of 52 advanced L2 English learners. These participants read an e-book containing six types of multimedia supports for either vocabulary acquisition or comprehension. The six supports consisted of three micro-level supports that provided information about specific…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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Liu, I-Fan; Young, Shelley S. -C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The purpose of this study is to describe an online community-based English extensive reading contest to investigate whether the participants' intrinsic, extrinsic, and interpersonal motivations and learning results show significant gender differences. A total of 501 valid questionnaires (285 females and 216 males) from Taiwanese high school…
Descriptors: Competition, Motivation, Gender Differences, Questionnaires
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Tseng, Sheng-Shiang; Yeh, Hui-Chin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Reciprocal teaching (RT) has been used to improve English as Foreign Language (EFL) students' reading comprehension in face-to-face instruction. However, little was known about how they use the RT to comprehend English texts in an online environment. This study explored how the implementation of RT strategies with the use of an annotation tool to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Low Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ponce, Héctor R.; Mayer, Richard E.; Figueroa, Verónica A.; López, Mario J. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This article examines the effectiveness of a software that supports formative assessment in real-time of learners' vocabulary knowledge through an interactive highlighting method. Students in a classroom are given a passage on their computer screen and asked to highlight the words they do not understand. This information is summarized on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Advanced Courses, Second Language Learning
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Wu, Ting-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Learning English by reading articles on multimedia e-book devices can assist students in improving their vocabulary and in understanding the associations among vocabulary, textual meaning, and paragraph composition. Adaptive integration of reading technologies and strategies not only strengthens their language ability and reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Diaries, Electronic Publishing, Reading Comprehension, Guidance
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Shang, Hui-Fang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The effective use of reading strategies has been recognized as an important way to increase reading comprehension in hypermedia environments. The purpose of the study was to explore whether metacognitive strategy use and access to hypermedia annotations facilitated reading comprehension based on English as a foreign language students' proficiency…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension