In this research, the students' level of awareness about use digital tools in education, their perspectives on education tools, feelings and thoughts course processes carried out with interactive applications were examined. According to results study, it is seen that student profile, which meets world at time birth, e-mails, chats, uses social media, access research resources new media where in...

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...

BACKGROUND Continued refinement of resources for patient information, education and support is needed. Considering the rapid development of new communication practices, the perspectives of young people themselves warrant more attention using a wide research focus. The purpose of this study was to understand information-seeking behaviours, Internet use and social networking online in adolescents...

this study aimed at investigating the impact of utilizing call on efl learners’ foreign accent reduction. to this end, 62 participants out of 100 undergraduate freshman english students at islamic azad university central tehran branch were ed based on a piloted sample pet and a text-to-read. the ed participants were then nonrandomly assigned to an experimental and a control group, each containi...

This study addressed the complex issues surrounding cognitive change in educators. It analyzed qualitative data gathered from an online Experiential Simulation© (ES©). ES© (Brunner, 2002) uses synchronous chats and written reflections to prompt dissonance around areas of power identity. Research was iteratively compared with education, psychology, neuroscience literature build a model educator ...

Today’s Wi Fi generation utilize the latest technology in their daily lives. Instructors at National University, the second largest non profit private institution of higher learning in California, are incorporating these new tools to modify their Online class formats to better accommodate these new skills in their distance education delivery modes. The University provides accelerated learning i...

This discourse analysis aimed to investigate the different emoji and its pragmatic illocutionary forces as used in messenger chats. The study utilized qualitative content approach identifying communicative uses of reflected context online discourse. explores signs symbols form by interactants their computer-mediated exchange Data revealed that or emojis represent current state being chats are: ...

In this paper a collection of chats and tweets from the Netherlands and Flanders is described. The chats and tweets are part of the freely available SoNaR corpus, a 500 million word text corpus of the Dutch language. Recruitment, metadata, anonymisation and IPR issues are discussed. To illustrate the difference of language use between the various text types and other parameters (like gender and...