The aim of this study was to investigate the level of effectiveness and initial oral English communication needs of Indonesian learners when using OEC to perform the learning activities in the business administration department of Porliteknik Negri Ujung Pandang in Makassar. Conceptually, the needs of learners cover aspect of want, lack and necessity that will be developed as the indicators of ...

This study investigates the effect of tonal context on L2 learners’ production of Mandarin tones. Ten English-speaking learners of Mandarin were asked to imitate native productions of disyllables encompassing all possible tone combinations. Their productions were evaluated by two native judges. The results show that the learners’ error patterns vary depending on the tonal context. Specifically,...

The purpose of this article is to describe a language-learning environment for beginning Chinese learners in Australia in which technology plays a crucial role in the overall planning of the curriculum. In this curriculum priority had been given to listening and speaking skills rather than helping learners to learn through reading romanization of the Chinese language. The integration of compute...

The present study examines how different types of attention cueing and cognitive style affect learners’ comprehension of a cardiovascular system and cognitive load. In this study, the learners were randomly assigned into one of following groups: no-cueing, static-blood cueing, static-blood–static-arrow cueing, and dynamic-blood–dynamic-arrow cueing. The results showed that attention cueing yiel...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of learners’ gender on their preferences for corrective feedback. learners’ prefer- ences which were investigated included the necessity, frequency, timing, type, method, and delivering agent of error treatment. to this end, a questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 100 participants (50 males and 50 females) studying english (efl) at shi...

Current approaches to language pedagogy recognize the fact that ESL learners need explicit help to improve the grammatical accuracy of their writing. This research investigates the utility of an online resource intended to improve advanced-level ESL learners’ writing by increasing their grammatical awareness and ability to correct the grammatical errors in their own writing. This classroom-base...

Literature indicates that centrality is correlated with learners’ engagement in MOOCs. This paper explores the relationship between centrality and performance in two MOOCs. We found one positive and one null correlation between centrality and grade scores at the end of the MOOCs. In both MOOCs, we found out that learners tend to communicate with learners in different performance groups. This su...

the present study aimed at investigating the possible impact ofzone of proximal development (zpd) on the learners’ performance. forty-sixiranian university students participated in this study by taking two types of readingcomprehension tests (i.e., the main idea and wh-question type). the researchersused the winstep program to analyze the data and estimate the learners’ raschmeasure in pre, pos...

The aim of our research is to realize a system for supporting English composition in second language learning which allows learners to compose some sentences and gain appropriate awareness of their errors in the sentences with indirect information from the system. This paper proposes a method when and how the system provides stimuli to the learners, describes its implementation briefly, and rep...