Despite their advantages, blended approaches have been met with mixed results by learners. There is a general view that learners who are known as Digital Natives or Millennials, are technologically savvy. Research, however, suggests rather that they possess poor levels of digital literacy and have demonstrated some degree of avoidance towards e-learning tools (Boyd, 2014; Chigeza and Halbert, 2...

needs analysis is an important step in curriculum development. teachers, writers and researchers must be aware of students’ needs to be able to make good decisions in choosing their teaching methodology or preparing course books. by the term “need”, we mean the gap between the current state and the desirable state. in the case of persian language, there is no corpus based on students’ need, the...

The field of second language acquisition (SLA) studies is characterized by two different traditions. One tradition is linguistic and focusses on the process by which learners build up their linguistic knowledge of the second language (L2). Here the focus is on learning. Human beings are credited with an innate capacity to learn language which explains why the process of learning manifests disti...

There have been some observed studies and developed applications (apps), with a concentration on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL), and no consideration of communicative needs of the learners; besides, these studies focused on either the theoretical aspects or the utilization of the available apps in the market (Burston & Athanasiou, 2020). Hence, Vocabulary Guru (VG), a custom-made mobi...

Text-based discussions in Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) may not be an optimal learning environment for all learners. This paper discusses the reasons why and explores the possibility of applying multimedia to ALN. The contribution of this paper is to provide ways of diversifying the ALN learning environment to accommodate the needs of diverse learners having different learning styles.