Developing Professional Foreign Language Skills through Webinars as Online Tool

The Distribution of Foreign Language Skills as a Game Equilibrium

Student engagement and foreign language learning through online social networks

Introduction: Nowadays, one of the most important questions in teaching and learning involves increasing the degree of students’ engagement in learning. According to Astin’s Theory of Student engagement, the best learning environment is one in which it is possible to increase students’ engagement. The current study investigates the influences that using these networks for educational purposes m...

Online Searching in English as a Foreign Language

Online searching is a central element of internet users' information behaviors. Searching is usually executed in a user’s native language, but searching in English as a foreign language is often necessitated by the lack of content in languages that are underrepresented in Web content. This paper reports results from a study of searching in English as a foreign language and aims at understanding...

Changes in Foreign Language Skills Over Time

Foreign language professionals invest considerable time and effort in acquiring foreign language skills. Of key interest is how these skills change over time, and which sustainment, or language training activities, are efficacious in maintaining or improving proficiency. This paper discusses the results of mining more than 800 test/re-test records of foreign language professionals. Analyses inv...

Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language

Notions of reading and the teaching of reading have been in constant revision, especially in recent years. Indeed, computers have led the general public to revise their own needs, skills, and reading strategies in their mother tongues and in foreign languages. The question is no longer whether students want to read more than speak but whether they need reading more. In 1999, as a teacher I admi...