Computer-Mediated Communication in the Classroom: Models for Enhancing Student Learning

Learning Pragmatics through Computer-Mediated Communication in Taiwan

This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. The goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

learning pragmatics through computer-mediated communication in taiwan

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

Enhancing student engagement using the flipped classroom.

The flipped classroom is an innovative pedagogical approach that focuses on learner-centered instruction. The purposes of this report were to illustrate how to implement the flipped classroom and to describe students' perceptions of this approach within 2 undergraduate nutrition courses. The template provided enables faculty to design before, during, and after class activities and assessments b...

Personalized Language Models for Computer-mediated Communication

In this paper, we investigate the performance of statistical language models on Instant Messaging (IM) data. Language Models (LM) are quite useful for modeling text data, and hence they are helpful in different contexts like spelling correction, speech recognition, part-ofspeech tagging etc. Construction of LM on a users past messaging data would be a strategy to model her writing style, and th...

Student elaborations in face-to-face versus computer-mediated-communication learning situations