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Effectiveness of ESL Students' Performance by Computational Assessment and Role of Reading Strategies in Courseware-Implemented Business Translation Tasks
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This study reports on investigating students' English translation performance and their use of reading strategies in an elective English writing course offered to senior students of English as a Foreign Language for 100 minutes per week for 12 weeks. A courseware-implemented instruction combined with a task-based learning approach was adopted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Technical Institutes, Second Language Learning
Implementing Courseware as the Primary Mode of Task-Based ESP Instruction: A Case Study of EFL Students
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
The study reports on implementing self-developed English for specific purposes (ESP) courseware for technology industries in an elective course, "English reading for technology," offered to junior students of English as a foreign language in a technical university in southern Taiwan. Courseware implementation was combined with a…
Descriptors: Courseware, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Courseware Integration into Task-Based Learning: A Case Study of Multimedia Courseware-Supported Oral Presentations for Non-English Major Students
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – ReCALL, 2011
This study reports on the integration of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) multimedia courseware for oral presentations into a self-learning and elective program for non-English major students in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. A computer-aided instruction approach, combined with a task-based learning approach, was adopted.…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, International Trade, Courseware, Questionnaires
Developing and Integrating Courseware for Oral Presentations into ESP Learning Contexts
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Computers & Education, 2010
This study reports on the development of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) multimedia courseware on oral presentations, and its integration into self-study learning and elective courses for students with different English proficiencies, as one solution to problems in ESP courses in Taiwan. The courseware design is based on Mayer's multimedia…
Descriptors: Elective Courses, International Trade, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware