over the past 25 years, autonomy has been a popular focus for discussion and increasingly influential in foreign language educa- tion. most research is concentrated on learner autonomy, while teacher autonomy has been seriously neglected. recently, however, researchers and experts have realized that to enhance learner autonomy, we must enhance teacher autonomy (e.g., benson 2000; little 1995; l...

The educational benefits of involving learners as active players in the learner modelling process have been an important motivation for research on this form of learner modelling, henceforth referred to as participative learner modelling. Such benefits, conceived as the promotion of learners’ reflection on and awareness of their own knowledge, have in most cases been asserted on the grounds of ...

Learner corpora are receiving special attention as an invaluable source of educational feedback and are expected to improve teaching materials and methodology. However, they include various types of incorrect sentences. Error type classification is an important task in learner corpora which enables clarifying for learners why a certain sentence is classified as incorrect in order to help learne...

Nowadays, instructional technologies are the enabler for educators to have more choices in course planning, course design, and lecturing. These technologies not only strengthen the communication between instructors and learners, but also let the learners get an easily access their course materials at anytime and from anywhere. As a result, many educational institutes, including formal universit...

Wikis are increasingly popular Web 2.0 tools in educational settings, being used successfully for collaborative learning. However, since they were not originally conceived as educational tools, they lack some of the functionalities useful in the instructional process (such as learner monitoring, evaluation support, student group management etc.). Therefore in this paper we propose a solution to...

This is a collection of papers edited by the founder and coordinator of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), which brings together written texts produced by non-native speakers (NNSs) of English from a variety of European mother-tongue backgrounds. The book is divided into three parts, each composed of several papers: the first part is devoted to a general outline of the constitu...

This paper discusses learner-centered approaches and evaluation in English language teaching and learning materials design. Based on the researches in this field, a framework is developed for the evaluation of learner-centered components contained in the materials. Thereafter, we apply the criteria to the assessment of two major English textbooks College English (1991) and Experiencing English ...

efficient system design and training human resources with the necessary skills is essential for every organization. managers' skills in using information technology results in greater efficiency at work and make decisions based on the information. this study investigates the design quality criteria and standards for rfid technology strategic management of university libraries is discussed....