Foreign language MOOCs design: challenges to provide meaningful learning

Foreign Language Anxiety and the EFL Learners’ Intention to Continue their English Language Learning

Anxiety undoubtedly plays an influential role in the experience of foreign language learning. This affective factor has attracted lots of researchers and has been the subject pool of scholarly research worldwide. However, research on the effect of demographic variables on foreign language anxiety (FLA) and the effect of FLA on the learners’ intention to continue their English language education...

Challenges to Research in MOOCs

Over the past five years, the emergence of interactive social media has influenced the development of learning environments. Learning management systems have come to maturity, but because they are controlled by educational institutions and are subsequently used to support institutional learning, have been seen by learning technologists as not capturing the spirit and possibilities that new medi...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

A Design Framework for Foreign Language Learning Applications

In this article we present a method for generating and applying syntactic motivated patterns in order to develop a foreign language learning mechanism. The patterns have been extracted from a parallel corpus that has been automatically annotated for morpho-syntactic descriptions and syntactic constituents. The proposed language learning framework is not designed around the wellknown list of wor...

Challenges of Identifying Second Language English Speakers in MOOCs

In this study, we aim to analyse English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a First Language (EFL) MOOC participants’ engagements in a MOOC. We aim to find out key points which directly effect learners’ dropout and performance in MOOCs. We worked on a FutureLearn data which is provided by the University of Southampton. The course is Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching MOOC that...