Authentic Learning: Enhancing Learners’ Academic Literacy Skills

Enhancing Authentic Texts for Language Learners

Enhancing Authentic Web Pages for Language Learners

Second language acquisition research since the 90s has emphasized the importance of supporting awareness of language categories and forms, and input enhancement techniques have been proposed to make target language features more salient for the learner. We present an NLP architecture and webbased implementation providing automatic visual input enhancement for web pages. Learners freely choose t...

Enhancing Learners' Cognitive Skills Through Multimedia Design

This paper examines how to design interactive multimedia learning environments to provide necessary support for developing higher level cognitive skills. We looked at one approach of engaging learners as multimedia designers using a project-based learning approach. We described this learner-as-multimedia-designer environment and synthesized the research, conducted over the past several years, o...

Adult Learners Information Literacy and Technological Skills within University Education

Higher education is changing to serve the needs of the 21 century called the information age where the building of the knowledge society is the highest priority. Universities are becoming mass; therefore their readiness to train competent citizens goes in line with contemporary challenges caused by new technologies, abundance of information resources that adult learners face in learning process...

The Literacy Skills of English Language Learners in Canada

The purpose of this article is to review published studies of the English literacy of children in Canada who are English language learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the reading development of ELLs and characteristics of reading disabilities (RD) in this population. Phonological processing, syntactic awareness, and working memory of ELLs with and without RD were compared to that of n...