<p>Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is popular worldwide. One related issue under discussion how to effectively harness mobile devices help English writers. This paper first unpacks writing as a meaning making process from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. It then summarizes major MALL-based studies on instruction, including affordances and challenges instruction...

PURPOSE Writing scientific articles is a daunting task for novice researchers. In this qualitative study carried out in 2007, the authors evaluated the experiences of a group of novice researchers engaged in the writing process, to elucidate the main difficulties and sources of encouragement they encountered. METHOD Sixteen novice researchers were interviewed. Most were women (10), and most w...

This study investigated the effects of a 12-week language-enriched phonological awareness instruction on 76 Hong Kong young children who were learning English as a second language. The children were assigned randomly to receive the instruction on phonological awareness skills embedded in vocabulary learning activities or comparison instruction which consisted of vocabulary learning and writing ...

Our instructional program, CATO, uses a model of case-based legal argument to teach law students basic skills of making arguments with cases. CATO represents abstract knowledge about the meaning of the similarities and differences between cases in a Factor Hierarchy, in which the ‘factors’ used to represent case facts are linked to higher level concerns and legal issues. The Factor Hierarchy en...