This paper presents results from a post-analysis of three previously reported experimental studies on adaptive educational hypermedia. In this new analysis, interaction effects of the post-hoc variable “previous knowledge of learners” and the adaptive treatments were found. The interaction effects have an impact on learners’ scores in knowledge tests, the time learners needed to browse adaptive...

This article describes a web-based communicative space (a Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions environment—DFAQ) in which learners consult one another using questions, and in which both the flow of interaction and its artefacts become a resource available to a community of learners. Anecdotal evidence suggests that learners embarking on their first year of university study enter a world that is e...

This paper proposes multimodal interfaces for a mobile learning system called SCROLL (System for Capturing and Reminding of Learning Log). The system is designed to help learners to record what they have learned (called as learning log) and recall their learning logs by providing them with quizzes. With the help of multimodal interfaces, learners can interact with the system by speech and body ...

Lifelong learners who select learning activities to attain certain learning goals need to know which are suitable and in which sequence they should be performed. Learners need support in this way-finding process, and we argue that this could be provided by using Personalised Recommender Systems (PRSs). To enable personalisation, collaborative filtering could use information about learners and l...

This study examines whether language-specific input influences children’s nonlinguistic spatial cognition as they acquire their first language. Recent research on infant cognition has shown that preverbal infants can make a distinction between tight-fit and loose-fit containment relations. This distinction is systematically made in Korean (kkita ‘fit tightly’), but not in English (in). Using a ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of effectiveness and initial oral English communication needs of Indonesian learners when using OEC to perform the learning activities in the business administration department of Porliteknik Negri Ujung Pandang in Makassar. Conceptually, the needs of learners cover aspect of want, lack and necessity that will be developed as the indicators of ...

This study investigates the effect of tonal context on L2 learners’ production of Mandarin tones. Ten English-speaking learners of Mandarin were asked to imitate native productions of disyllables encompassing all possible tone combinations. Their productions were evaluated by two native judges. The results show that the learners’ error patterns vary depending on the tonal context. Specifically,...

The purpose of this article is to describe a language-learning environment for beginning Chinese learners in Australia in which technology plays a crucial role in the overall planning of the curriculum. In this curriculum priority had been given to listening and speaking skills rather than helping learners to learn through reading romanization of the Chinese language. The integration of compute...