Literature reviews on hypermedia learning have yet failed to show consistent positive effects of learner-controlled nonlinear information access. We argue that a possible reason for this lack of evidence in favor of hypermedia learning results from the fact that not sufficient attention is paid to the strategies of information utilization learners deploy. The few studies that do analyze these s...

Self-report data and think-aloud data from 37 undergraduates were used to examine the impact of conceptual scaffolds on self-efficacy, monitoring, and planning during learning with a commercial hypermedia environment. Participants, randomly assigned to either the No Scaffolding (NS) or Conceptual Scaffolding (CS) condition, used a hypermedia environment for 30 minutes to learn about the circula...

This paper describes a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in a ubiquitous computing environment. The environment, called TANGO (Tag Added learNinG Objects) system, detects the objects around the learner using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, and provides the learner the right information for language learning. This system supports learning in daily life with PDA (personal dig...

1. When Vannevar Bush envisioned his hypertext 'memex' in 1945 [Bush 1945], he dreamed of a personal system that would help him tackle the problem of information overload at that time. Today, with the advent of more and more powerful computers, we are still struggling to cope with the vast amount of information that bombards us daily. Perhaps hypertext technology, structuring traditional text i...

  With the advent of computer technology and educational software, hypermedia language learning materi-als made their way in foreign and second language classrooms. Today the role of hypermedia in improv-ing communication skills is by no means deniable. This research aimed at investigating the effect of hy-permedia on the oral performance as well as the motivation of Iranian EFL Learners. A pre...

The novel information retrieval system OMNIS is supported by the fulltext database system Myriad, and provides archiving, disclosing, and searching functions at drastically reduced costs. The user interface of OMNIS has been created in an intuitive way and compared with the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model, two main differences will be noticed: On the one hand, OMNIS does not support arbitrary ...

Luke Plonsky, University College London Nicole Ziegler, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa The relationship between computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and second language acquisition (SLA) has been studied both extensively, covering numerous subdomains, and intensively, resulting in hundreds of primary studies. It is therefore no surprise that CALL researchers, as in other areas of applied ...