Autonomous language learning with technology

Edward (Edo) Forsythe - Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) wants English language education to be…

Frozen by fear: Can digital scaffolding help students start writing?

Daniel Mills, Olivia Kennedy - Despite having studied English for some 33 months, the students at the private junior high…

A principled approach to utilizing digital games in the language learning classroom

Jared Baierschmidt - Empirical research into the use of digital games for educational purposes has shown promising results such as…

Integrated language skills CALL course design

Kevin Watson, Grant Agawa - The importance of a structured learning framework or interrelated frameworks is the cornerstone of a…

Touch the page and mimic me: Evaluation of a talking-pen learning tool

Abigail Odakura - The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the talking-pen device called the Mimic Me, an educational…

Tablet PCs in a paperless classroom: Student and teacher perceptions on screen size

Judith Runnels, Arthur Rutson-Griffiths - A paperless classroom, when all materials required to complete a class are available in an…

Investigating an intelligent system for vocabulary learning through reading

Glenn Stockwell - While learners can acquire vocabulary through extensive reading (Pigada & Schmitt, 2006), research suggests that acquisition can…

Helping students to learn the English second conditional by blending Internet resources with virtual worlds: The results of a study

Mariusz Anglik - The paper presents the results of a study whose main aim was to investigate the effectiveness of…

A survey of online teaching by native-speaker English instructors at Japanese universities

John Bracher - This study investigates how native-speaker English teachers working at Japanese universities use the Internet in their classes.