Internet and Foreign-Language Instruction

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Tapping into the synergy between SLA, Foreign Language Instruction and Natural Language Processing in ICALL

internet and arabic language

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...

The Internet, Language Learning, and International Dialogue: Constructing Online Foreign Language Learning Websites

In the present study we call attention to the close connection between languages and globalization, and we also emphasize the importance of the Internet and online websites in foreign language teaching and learning as unavoidable elements of computer assisted language learning (CALL). We prepared a checklist by which we investigated 28 foreign language teaching websites (4 from each of seven la...

Undergraduate Instruction and the Internet

TODAY’S UNDERGRADUATES VARY GREATLY in their information and computer skills. Few are motivated, or even see the need, to improve these skills yet are excited and curious about the information superhighway. Several projects which integrate the Internet and specific Internet resources into undergraduate teaching and learning and the problems involved are