Mind and material: The interplay between computer-related and second language factors in online communication dialogues

Pin-hsiang Natalie Wu, Michelle Kawamura - With a growing demand for learning English and a trend of utilizing computers in…

Blended instruction for EFL learners: Engagement, learning and course satisfaction

Aysel Sahin-Kizil - Offering blended courses has increasingly become common at tertiary education though it is relatively new in the…

A case study of using Facebook in an EFL English writing class: The perspective of a writing teacher

Li-Tang Yu - The purpose of this study was to address a writing teacher's perspective about integrating Facebook, a social…

Tasks for easily modifiable virtual environments

Robert Swier - Recent studies of learner interaction in virtual worlds have tended to select basic tasks involving open-ended communication.

EFL instructors’ perceptions of usefulness and ease of use of the LMS Manaba

Sean Toland, Jeremy White, Daniel Mills, Doris U. Bolliger - Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have become important tools in higher…

The effects of syntactically parsed text formats on intensive reading in EFL

John C. Herbert - Separating text into meaningful language chunks, as with visual-syntactic text formatting, helps readers to process text…

Online intercultural collaborations using wikis: An analysis of students’ comments and factors affective project success

Edo Forsythe - Online intercultural collaborations using wiki pages are becoming common in foreign language education.

Take your pick: Out-of-class, blended language and Web 2.0 projects, and online

Neil Cowie, Keiko Sakui - This paper provides a synthesis of the pedagogical practices of e-learning teacher experts into a…