It is widely known that interaction, as well as communication, are very important parts of successful online courses. These features are considered crucial because they help to improve students’ attention in a very significant way. In this publication, the authors present an innovative application, which adds different forms of interactivity to learning videos within MOOCs such as multiple-choi...

Adult Basic Education programs are under pressure to develop and deliver instruction that promotes rapid and sustained literacy development. We describe a novel approach to a literacy intervention that focuses on morphemes, which are the smallest meaningful units contained in words. We argue that if you teach learners that big words are comprised of smaller components (i.e., morphemes), you wil...

Digital libraries have been rather successful in supporting learning activities by providing learners with access to information and knowledge. However, this level of support is passive to learners and interactive and collaborative learning can not be easily achieved. In this paper, we study how digital libraries could be extended to serve a more active role in collaborative learning activities...

In order to successfully learn the meaning of words such as bin or pin, language learners must not only perceive relevant differences in the speech signal but also learn mappings from words to referents. Prior work in native (Stager & Werker, 1997) and second (Pajak, Creel, & Levy, 2016) language acquisition has found that the ability to perceptually discriminate between words does not guarante...

This study investigated the effectiveness of incidental focus on form in promoting second language development in text-based live chats. Sixteen college-level Taiwanese English language learners were partnered with American college students to complete two communicative tasks via synchronous chats on Instant Messenger. Language-related episodes (LREs) were identified and used as a basis for ind...

Language learners have come to an era in which studying outside the classroom is well-facilitated by technology development. Along with this advancement, there a wider chance learn things classroom, including language. In Indonesian context, many students done exploration improve their English exposure through various activities. This study aims reveal learning strategies successful EFL learner...

Scholars who have studied the adoption of technology in educational settings, believe that professional development is necessary for its successful adoption. This paper addresses a need for an iPad Professional Development Program (iPDP) to support the adoption of iPad tablet computers in higher education teaching and learning. The proposed iPDP is a hybrid program involving both face-to-face l...

Word learning research has shown that learners constrain the hypothesis space for word meanings by using multiple sources of information, such as cross-situational regularities of word-context co-occurrences or syntactic cues, like the number of arguments. These studies typically focus on word meaning development where these cues can be helpful but not necessary. As such, it sheds little light ...