Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning

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Zhang, Felicia, Barber, Beth
IGI Global, Feb 28, 2008 - Education - 614 pages

Language learning is one of the most rapidly changing disciplines. Along with changing perspectives in learning in the field of Second Language Acquisition, information communication technology (ICT) has also created many learning paths to assist the process of learning a second language (L2). In such an ever-evolving environment, teachers, researchers, and professionals in a diverse number of disciplines need access to the most current information about research on the field of computerenhanced language acquisition and learning.

The Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning provides comprehensive coverage of successful translation of language learning designs utilizing ICT in practical learning contexts. With 30 authoritative contributions by over 50 of the world's leading experts this reference source offers researchers, scholars, students, and professionals worldwide, access to the latest knowledge related to research on computer-enhanced language acquisition and learning.

 

Contents

Australasian Language Learners and Italian Web Sites A Profitable Learning Partnership?
1
Assessing the Benefit of Prewriting Conferences on Drafts
20
Blogging and Academic Writing Development
36
Second Language Reading in Hypertext Environments
48
Application of Online Questionnaires in Grammar Teaching
64
ICT and Language Learning at Secondary School
84
ComputerEnhanced Grammar Teaching
101
Multimedia and Speech Technology in Language Learning
115
A TaskBased Design for Integrating EMail with FL Pedagogy
307
The Role of Error Correction in Online Exchanges
326
Emerging Feedback in Two Asynchronous ESL Writing Forums
342
CMC and Intercultural Learning
361
Developing L2 Strategic Competence Online
377
Interventions and Student Factors in Collaboration
403
The Use of Corpora in Language Acquisition and Learning
421
Corpora in the Classroom and Beyond
422

ResearchBased Listening Tasks for Video Comprehension
116
Invested Mental Effort in an Aural Multimedia Environment
136
A ComputerBased Reading Tutor for Young Language Learners
159
Supporting the Reflective Language Learner with Computer Keystroke Logging
189
Grammar Animations and Cognition
205
Evaluation of a Speech Interactive CALL System
219
Pedagogy Meets Technology in the SomaticallyEnhanced Approach
240
Training for Learning Mandarin Tones
259
An Evaluation of a Listening Comprehension Program
275
CMC and Language Acquisition and Learning
294
CMC for Language Acquisition
295
Sharing Corpus Resources in Language Learning
438
The Texture of Inefficiently SelfRegulating ESL Systems
453
SelfAccess Support for Language Acquisition and Learning
468
Technology in Support of SelfAccess Pedagogy
469
The CALL Lab as a Facilitator for Autonomous Learning
483
Applying TTS Technology to Foreign Language Teaching
497
Using an AudioVideo Chat Program in Language Learning
507
Compilation of References
521
About the Contributors
568
Index
576
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About the author (2008)

Felicia Zhang possesses a Master of Arts degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, Australia; Holder of a Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate (TEFLA) issued by the Royal Society of Arts, United Kingdom; and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Canberra. She is currently a senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Chinese at the University of Canberra, Australia. Her research interests include the use of active learning techniques in foreign language teaching, the use of technology in language teaching and acquisition, e-learning, integrating computer technology in curriculum design in education. She has just completed an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant on science education which also won her and her team at the University of Canberra, Australia, a University of Canberra Teaching Award for Programs that Enhanced Learning. She published the ?Handbook of research on computer-enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning? in 2008. She is also the 2003 winner of Australian Awards for University Teaching. [Editor]

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