Year: 2006

E-pals to motivate students: How a fully integrated email exchange can help motivate low-level students

Marie-Nancy Bourques - This article describes how an email exchange (epal) can motivate low-level college students.

CALL for autonomy, competency and relatedness: Motivating language learning environments in Web 2.0

Antonie Alm - In the last 30 years, computer-assisted language learning has gone through significant changes, as illustrated in Warschauer's…

Introducing ICT to teachers of an institution-wide language programme: Principal considerations

Christine Leahy - This article sets out to introduce some principal pedagogical considerations which influenced the design and delivery of…

Using CALL as the major element of study for a university English class in Japan

Scott Bingham, Eric Larson - The purpose of this study was to see if using CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)…

Single-page, multiple-view web pages for reading ease

Scott Petersen - Japanese universities often assign students who fail a course to separate, repeaters' classes.

Online tutorial support in distance learning through audio-graphic SCMC: Tutor impressions

Fernando Rosell-Aguilar - The adoption of audiographic conferencing brings with it changes to the learning experience for tutors and students…

Collaborative early EFL reading among distributed learners: A simulation pilot study

Yu-Ju Lan, Yao-Ting Sung, Kuo-En Chang - It is widely accepted that reading provides important opportunities for second language (L2)…

Review of PodOMatic

Mete Akcaoglu - In Hampel and Hauck (2004) the basic second language learning theory is summarized as follows: For language…

Implementing optimal spaced learning for English vocabulary learning: Towards improvement of the Low-First Method derived from the reactivation theory

Tatsuya Nakata - The spacing effect is known to be one of the most robust phenomena in experimental psychology, and…

Computer-mediated language learning: Making meaning in multimodal virtual learning spaces

Regine Hampel, Mirjam Hauck - This article argues that when using Internet-based computer-mediated communication technologies for language teaching and learning…

Developing writing fluency and lexical complexity with blogs

Terry Fellner, Matthew Apple - The researchers utilized student blogs in an integrated CALL program for low proficiency, low motivation…

Computer education and filming in an ESL classroom

Nicolas Gromik - A review of the literature reveals that film editing as task-based language development activities has received little…

Limitations of mobile phone learning

Shudong Wang, Michael Higgins - In this article, we discuss weaknesses inherent in mobile phone learning, and factors that limit…

Telecollaboration for intercultural learning: An overview of projects involving Japan

Nathaniel Carney - Telecollaboration is a form of foreign language education which links language students both cross-linguistically as well as…

English Trailers v4: An example of an ESL/EFL website that transformed from a testing to a teaching focus

Andrew Johnson - Since the spring of 2003, English Trailers has been a free, online learning environment for students to…