This study aimed at gaining insights into students’ attitudes in the learning English using the Smart Board or Interactive White Board (IWB) technology in EFL classrooms. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate students’ attitudes towards the use of Smart Board as an instructional tool on student motivation, participation, interaction and retention for learning English in Iranian schools. To...

Despite the abundance of research on teachers’ repair practices in language classroom interaction, there are not enough conversation analytic studies on repair organization with the focus on the details of interaction in the context of EFL. Drawing on sociocultural and situated learning theories, this study explores the contingent nature of English language teachers’ org...

Drawing on Walsh's (2012) idea that boosting learners' contribution and interaction can play a key role in their foreign language learning, this mixed-methods study tried to cast some light on the ways by which teachers, via their choice and use of language, create or block learners' contribution in direct interactions in the classroom. A total of 800-minute recordings of 10 teachers' talks and...

1. ABSTRACT This paper describes a strictly controlled study of the impact that Classroom Learning Partner, a Tablet-PC-based classroom interaction system, had on student performance. The goal of the study was to test the hypothesis that the use of such a system improves student learning, especially among the poorest performing students. This paper describes our validation of that hypothesis, a...

This paper introduces a suite of Window Managers purposed for the technologically enhanced classroom. The overall objective is to instantiate a common look and feel across various classroom artifacts, thus providing a unified working environment for the students and teachers. To achieve optimal interaction and application display, the workspaces for each artifact are designed keeping in mind bo...

Results: Our sample size is too small to draw empirical conclusions about whether clickers alone improve grades, but subjectively there was a clear improvement in the classroom dynamic when using the clicker technology. The students were engaged and enjoyed the immediate feedback and resulting peer interaction. The instant feedback also enabled the professor to recognize and address a grammatic...

This study investigates the current situation of some gender issues in primary (key stage one) education, such as gender imbalance of classroom interaction and pupils’ concentration levels at different stages of class. The present study is based on the observation of the classroom interactions of a carefully selected primary class in Northeast England. Throughout the observation which lasted tw...

The development of network technology brings wider imaginary space for teaching techniques reforms. The research on application of WeChat as the most popular social information platform in classroom teaching is receiving increasingly more attention. This paper discusses the establishment of WeChat-based piano teaching communication platform. WeChat platform provides students with creation, comm...

Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology that blends physical objects with virtual reality. through the integration of digital and print media, a gap between the “on and offline” worlds are merged, radically shifting student-computer interaction in the classroom. this research examined the results of a multi-case study on the use of the AR platform Aurasma in the higher education classr...