Year: 2012

A cross-cultural comparison of students’ perceptions of IT use in higher education

Kurtis McDonald - Ensuring the most effective use of information technology (IT) in higher education requires that instructors understand not…

Developments in ongoing English classes using electronic courseware for multi-level repeaters

Steven Silsbee, Myles Grogan - In compulsory university English classes, not all students pass.

Critically minded podcasts: An interactive curriculum

Nicholas A. Bufton - In an effort to improve intermediate and advanced foreign language learners' critical thinking skills regarding the…

Content-based instruction using Moodle: Teaching with TEDTalks

Rick Broadaway - This paper will describe how Moodle was employed to facilitate the use of TED Talks as content…

Integration of iPads into a Japanese university English language curriculum

Marnie Brown, Joachim Castellano, Erin Hughes, Alexander Worth - Tablet computers are a growing trend in education that has been…

Perceptions of mobile language learning in Australia: How ready are learners to study on the move?

Chika Fujimoto - The increased availability of mobile devices in recent years has brought about a noticeable increase in the…

A pedagogy-driven approach to the design of a medical abbreviations videogame: Brevissima

Amanda Muller , Jodie Price - This paper explores the development of a computer-assisted language learning game which teaches medical…

Moodle: Students’ perspectives on forums, glossaries and quizzes

Rob Hirschel - A socio-cultural approach has been taken in investigating student perspectives of CALL instruction for EFL, specifically the…

Tool-mediated collaborative learning: Peer-assessment workshop case study

Mark de Boer, Simon Townsend - In this paper we will discuss an action research project where students created an…

Barriers to the implementation of CALL in EFL courses: Iranian EFL teachers’ attitudes and perspectives

Reza Dashtestani - This study explored the attitudes of Iranian EFL teachers toward the use of CALL in EFL courses…

Twitter in the teaching methods course: Foreign language graduate teaching assistants’ perspectives

Isabelle Drewelow - This article reports on the experimental implementation of Twitter in a foreign language teaching methods course.

The effectiveness of project-based learning utilizing Web 2.0 tools in EFL

Jesse R. Elam, Ben Nesbit - Researchers in the past, such as Jeon-Ellis, Debski, and Wigglesworth (2005), have successfully utilized…

Examining the Validity of the Lexical Access Time Test (LEXATT2)

Tatsuo Iso - This study aimed to investigate the validity of the Lexical Access Time Test (LEXATT2).

Identifying Dimensions of Vocabulary Knowledge in the Word Associates Test

Aaron Batty - Depth of vocabulary knowledge (DVK) (i.e. how much a learner knows about the words he knows) is…

Relationships Between Text Length and Lexical Diversity Measures: Can We Use Short Texts of Less than 100 Tokens?

Rie Koizumi - Lexical diversity (LD) measures have been known to be sensitive to the length of the text, and…

A Multiple-Choice Test of Active Vocabulary Knowledge

Jeffrey Stewart - Most researchers distinguish between receptive (passive) and productive (active) word knowledge.

Four Empirical Vocabulary Test Studies in the Three Dimensional Framework

Masamichi Mochizuki - In this paper I would like to briefly overview vocabulary testing literature and discuss the four empirical…

Utilizing Student-Generated Pictures for Formative Vocabulary Instruction

Charles J. Anderson - Contemporary vocabulary learning strategies focus on the learner.

A Study of Learners’ Intuitions Behind the Use of Utterance Verbs in English

Yoshiaki Sato, Aaron Batty - Verbs of utterance are some of the most fundamental verbs in the English language, yet…

The Frequency Model of Vocabulary Learning and Japanese Learners

Dale Brown - The frequency model of vocabulary learning, the idea that words are learnt broadly in order of their…