Objectives: The spontaneous language sample analysis is an important part of the language assessment protocol. Language samples give us useful information about how children use language in the natural situations of daily life. The purpose of this study was to compare Conversation, Freeplay, and narrative speech in aspects of Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), Type-token ratio (TTR), and the numbe...

There has been a call in recent years for an integration of cognitive load theory into instructed second language acquisition practices to assist learners by taking advantage theories on human architecture. This paper seeks move the conversation how this might be achieved presenting findings from survey data conducted with enrolled online courses at cyber-university South Korea (n = 68). Findin...

Abstract Mobile-based extramural English (EE) activities, including watching movies, playing digital games, and listening to music outside the classroom, have played an important role in increasing learners' interest as a foreign language (EFL). This mixed-method design study aimed investigate of EE activities vocabulary development intermediate EFL learners. The included group 60 learners, 30 ...

convictions are strong that multimedia courseware holds great promise for enhancing learning efficiency among learners. this study thus aimed at comparing the effects of the multimedia programs introducing 100 vocabulary items through pictures and streaming video with those of teacher instruction on increasing efl learners’ vocabulary repertoire. a total of 120 subjects were identified as inter...

This paper explores the transformative capacity of engaging teachers in constructive dialogue within ICT professional development activity. The paper reports on one aspect of an Australian Research Council funded Linkage project that is concerned with models of teacher Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) professional development that result in multiliterate teaching practices. The ...

The basic hypothesis of this research project is that since the perception and appropriation of affordances vary across cultural dimensions, representational guidance may be culturally relative. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate this hypothesis. The study design consisted of three independent groups of dyads from similar or different cultures (American-American, American-Chinese, ...

Annotated email corpora are necessary for evaluation and training of machine learning summarization techniques. The scarcity of corpora has been a limiting factor for research in this field. We describe our process of creating a new annotated email thread corpus that will be made publicly available. We present the trade-offs of the different annotation methods that could be used.