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Eneau, Jerome; Develotte, Christine – ReCALL, 2012
This study concerns the development of autonomy in adult learners working on an online learning platform as part of a professional master's degree programme in "French as a Foreign Language". Our goal was to identify the influence of reflective and collaborative dimensions on the construction of autonomy for online learners in this programme. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Student Problems, Adult Learning
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de los Arcos, Beatriz; Coleman, James A.; Hampel, Regine – ReCALL, 2009
Success and failure in language learning are partly determined by the learners' ability to regulate their emotions. Negative feelings are more likely to frustrate progress, while positive ones make the task of learning a second language (L2) a more effective experience. To date no significant body of research has been carried out into the role of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Kupetz, Rita; Ziegenmeyer, Brigit – ReCALL, 2005
The paper discusses a blended learning concept for a university teacher training course for prospective teachers of English. The concept aims at purposeful learning using different methods and activities, various traditional and electronic media, learning spaces covering contact and distance learning, and task-based learning modules that begin…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learning Modules, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Basanta, Carmen Perez – ReCALL, 2004
This paper presents an online course for assessing and developing lexical competence which grew out of one simple question: How many words do our students have? We start by highlighting the importance of vocabulary teaching in the second language learning process and the beneficial effects of multimedia on developing lexis. The first response to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Personal Autonomy, Vocabulary Development
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Ros i Sole, Cristina; Mardomingo, Raquel – ReCALL, 2004
This paper discusses a framework for designing online tasks that capitalizes on the possibilities that the Internet and the Web offer for language learning. To present such a framework, we draw from constructivist theories (Brooks and Brooks, 1993) and their application to educational technology (Newby, Stepich, Lehman and Russell, 1996; Jonassen,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Open Universities, Student Attitudes, Distance Education