As the Enron scandal and Bernie Madoff’s pyramid scheme have shown, individuals’ attitude towards ethical risks can a huge impact on society at large. In this paper, we compare risk-taking attitudes assessed with Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) survey individual e-mail networking patterns body language measured smartwatches. We find that communication signals such as network structure dyn...

Two main reasons contributing to the lack of mastery in English grammar by students are their apprehension towards subject and difficulty understanding tenses. To alleviate fear trigger learners' interest learning grammar, an interactive digital board game was designed via MALL targeted at TESL students. This paper aims explore these students' perceptions game. The uses Theory Variation as a th...

This paper describes an experimental study aimed at investigating the learning effectiveness of a Web-based course called Academic English (EAP) for Japanese learners of English. The main focus of the study was to examine the form, function, and impact of interaction in the course. Twenty university-level EFL students participated in this experiment. They were randomly assigned to two treatment...

Integrative motivation was found to correlate significantly with sign language proficiency of adult learners at a post-secondary program for deaf students. Instrumental motives, however, were perceived as less important. Higher achievement in ASL was also associated with a positive cultural attitude toward deaf people. Learning of ASL as a second language may be enhanced if instructors design s...

We present a framework for handling emotional variations in a speech-based natural language system for use in the MRE virtual training environment. The system is a first step toward addressing issues in emotion-based modeling of verbal communicative behavior. We cast the problem of emotional generation as a distance minimization task, in which the system chooses between multiple valid realizati...

This study explores the perceptions of high school students who attend an international in Jakarta towards language use, attitude, and identity. One hundred sixty-five aged between 15-18 years old participated this study. They were divided into three categories based on their nationalities, namely (1) Indonesian born raised Indonesia, (2) outside (3) non-Indonesian (expatriates) studying Indone...