Demotivating factors can negatively influence the learners’ attitudes in learning English language. In the present study, demotivating factors and the strategies used to reduce demotivation among Iranian EFL learners were explored through both qualitative and quantitative research methods. İn the qualitative part of the study, semi-structured interviews including two main open-ended questions w...

While different approaches to evaluation will yield different results, depending on the purpose of the evaluation this article describes an evaluation approach that was aimed at investigation the mental models of users of the programme. The study was driven by questions about the differences in mental models of the instructional designers and the learners, the time learners spent working throug...

Social scientists face an overload of digitized information. In particular, they must often spend inordinate amounts of time coding and analyzing transcribed speech. This paper describes a study, in the field of learning science, of the feasibility of semi-automatically coding and scoring verbal data. Transcripts from 48 individual learners comprising 2 separate data sets of 44,000 and 23,000 w...

abstractlistening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. in spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. however, on account of the entire challenges efl learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as supp...

This paper, as part of an ongoing study, reports a qualitative case study in investigating pre-writing activities among three English as Foreign language (EFL) learners in an online community via a facebook group. The data were collected from the learners’ interactional exchanges, observation notes of their interaction and responses to online written interview questions. Based on a qualitative ...

The aim of this paper is to explore the use of an application that scaffolds the constructions of programs on a mobile device. The application was developed to support novice learners of programming outside the classroom. This paper reports on results of a first experiment conducted to evaluate the mobile application. The main research questions are: (i) whether the use of the application is ef...

This paper reports findings from a case study that investigated the Chinese reading strategies of English speaking learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL). We focused on CFL learners’ reading of different genres in two different formats, paper-based format and computer-based hypertext format (henceforth hypertext format). Since Chinese characters are categorized in deep orthography, whi...

This paper describes an evaluation of a web-based consultation space (a dynamic frequently asked questions environment DFAQ) in which learners consult one another using questions, and in which both the flow of interaction and its artefacts become a resource available to a community of learners. The DFAQ is a special form of a Computer-Mediated-Communication tool specifically developed to facili...

The present study examines the in uence of intonational contrasts of German and Japanese on the F0 patterns of Japanese learners of German. It was found that Japanese learners generally place the word accent in compound words on the right-most (the generic) term which suggests that they adopt rules of accent concatenation of Japanese. In contrast to native speakers of German, they tend to place...

Research study has focused on investigating: could we transform today’s outmoded education system to a vibrant learning ecosystem that puts learners at the center?, how technology is changing the way we teach and more importantly the impact it has on the way students learn? The study focused primarily on two objectives. Firstly on assessing and evaluating issues and deficiencies in the current ...