This study is an investigation of the use of multimedia components such as visual text, spoken text, and graphics in a Web-based self-instruction program to increase learners’ English vocabulary learning at Myungin Middle School in Seoul, South Korea. A total of 172 middle school students (14 years of age) in five classes participated in the study. Each individual was required to complete sever...

improving teaching and assessment practice requires a change in the attitudes of both teachers and learners towards the new trends introduced in the field of testing. the reason for this is that no educational change can be effectively and efficiently implemented unless teachers are not only convinced but also willing to implement the new achievements. the present study aims to investigate one ...

The principal aim of the online Mandarin Chinese perceptual test is to understand how learners of Mandarin Chinese identify the language’s four tones and its correlated factors. There are many factors involved in successfully learning a second language. Therefore, aside from a learner’s L1 language and prior experience, his/her attitude and motivation also contribute to L2 learning. That may be...

The primary goal of this paper is to operationalize the connectivism approach into a new learning model with additions from problem-based and contextual learning that can be effectively implemented together, to improve socioeconomically diverse learners’ educational outcomes (attitude and persistence) in STEM (Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics) areas. We model this approach through...

The Virtual University is a learning environment at the University of Hagen. The project is aimed at distance education of fully employed part-time students inter alia. These students need special assistance in their difficult learning situation in many ways. One goal of this paper is to provide them with appropriate and reasonable to use learning material any time any location where we assume ...

The main features of mobile application software are recognized as the potential for learning process to be personalized, spontaneous, flexible, and free. Although it may take a longer time to enable systematic learning through mobile phones compared to computers, the learners do receive a greater learning experience of freedom of time and place, so that they can take the advantage of spare tim...

Connectionist simulation was employed to investigate processes that may underlie the relationships between prior expectancies or prejudices and the acquisition of attitudes, under conditions where learners can only discover the valence of attitude objects through directly experiencing them. We compared contexts analogous to learners holding either false negative expectancies ('prejudices') abou...

Social networking sites pose a new arena for argumentative practices and may provide an opportunity to facilitate, and understand argumentative processes in large scale over longer periods of time. Through apps, group awareness tools and argumentation scripts can be implemented in social networking sites, to provide additional, graphically visualized information, and prompt learners to formulat...

Mobile learning (m-learning) is gaining popularity as the „anytime, anywhere‟ online learning channel. Academics and practitioners alike are showing interest in examining its ability to support online learning. However, prior studies have highlighted the challenges in promoting m-learning adoption. The extantm-learning literature has mainly focused on technology related factors to examine m-lea...

This paper discusses the use of computer interactive media in a traditional shadow play lesson for elementary students. The researchers digitalized traditional shadow play rules, photos, and other related information by applying twodimensional animation techniques. The instructional material was used to assist the instructor’s teaching, as well as to help the students to understand the major th...