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Chen, Kate Tzu Ching – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study explored the potential of adopting speech-to-text recognition (STR) technology for English as a foreign language (EFL) oral training in class at the university level. An action study method was set to investigate the effects of implementing STR app tasks for EFL oral training with 27 students in one class for one semester at a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2022
In our ESL field of English and Chinese, oral translation has become very significant due to the speedy globalization trend. However, many seniors in Taiwan might not effortlessly participate in this global village because they did not attain their chance of learning English in their elementary school. So, some of the bosses of industries or…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Rhyme, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Yang, Hui-Chun – Infant and Child Development, 2022
The study examined storytelling prosody (i.e., prosodic variations in retelling a story) and the relation with oral language in Taiwanese preschool children. One hundred and twenty-eight preschool children aged 4 and 5 were recruited and given the following tasks: nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, syntax, and storytelling prosody. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Suprasegmentals, Oral Language
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Tzu-Yu Tai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) are a valuable tool in language learning because they provide opportunities for authentic interaction. However, their effectiveness, compared with that of human interlocutors, in facilitating second and foreign language interaction has not been explored. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of IPAs…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Wang, Hei-Chia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This paper investigates English language learners' oral presentation needs, alongside students' and instructors' perceptions towards mobile seamless language learning. The findings will be used to develop a mobile-based learning environment. Interviews with both instructors and students were used to help build a Likert questionnaire which was…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Oral Language, Performance, Electronic Learning
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Graham, Keith M.; Eslami, Zohreh – Reading Psychology, 2022
This study examines the role of transcription and ideation, the dimensions in the Simple View of Writing, as predictors of narrative and expository writing of English language learners (ELLs). Data were collected from sixth-grade primary school ELL students (N = 56) in Taiwan. Two writing samples, a narrative and an expository, were collected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
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Huang, Lan-Fen; Gráf, Tomáš – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
In its descriptors for oral fluency the Common European Framework of Reference includes frequent references to the tempo of speech and the use of pausing. The present study aims to provide empirical evidence that these fluency phenomena exist; it also seeks to establish how they distinguish two different levels of proficiency (B2 and C1) among L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Wang, Hei-Chia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study investigated student perceptions and opinions on an English Oral Presentation Application (EOPA), a mobile learning application designed to assist English learners develop oral presentations and online collaboration skills. This study was part of a Design Based Research (DBR) project which incorporated an adapted Technology Acceptance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Oral Language
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Hung, Shao-Ting Alan; Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The current study explored how the participation in multimodal videoconferencing sessions affected one of the affective factors: willingness to communicate (WTC) in second language learning. Participants from the experimental group took part in three 30-minute communication tasks via videoconferencing that included interactions in textual, audio,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Videoconferencing
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Hsu, Mei-Hua; Chen, Pei-Shih; Yu, Chi-Shun – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Many learners of English as a foreign language often feel that learning spoken English is frustrating and quite difficult, especially when they have to talk to English-speaking foreigners. In general, because they are unfamiliar with the spoken mode of English and are worried about making grammatical errors, they often feel very scared to speak…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, English (Second Language)
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Yi-chen Chen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Public speaking is considered the most anxiety-provoking speaking activity for English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. While traditional lecture-based classrooms hinder EFL learners' constant practice and frequent interaction due to large class sizes and limited time, recent developments in technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI),…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Oral Language, Second Language Learning
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Due to the outbreak of COVID 19, an online bilingual curriculum was conducted via "Google Meet." The learning material was developed and implemented by using a smartphone application, STEMUP, based on augmented reality (AR) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies. This study investigated the oral performance and perceptions…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Sasi, Abolfazl Shirban; Haga, Toshinari; Chen, Heng Yu – World Journal of Education, 2020
The present study investigated the feasibility of applying the Silent Way in teaching Japanese to Taiwanese university students. A total of 168 (96 female and 72 male) students in a university in central Taiwan were the subjects of this study. They were studying Japanese as a general course, and were grouped in five classes ranging from freshmen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
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Newman, Mark; Kwan, Irene; Schucan Bird, Karen; Hoo, Hui-Teng – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
Meta-syntheses have reported positive impacts of feedback for student achievement at different stages of education and have been influential in establishing feedback as an effective strategy to support student learning. However, these syntheses combine studies of a variety of different feedback approaches, combine studies where feedback is one of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Lim, Stacey R.; Goldberg, Donald M.; Flexer, Carol – Volta Review, 2018
In 1993, the first study of outcomes of auditory-verbal graduates was published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (JAAA). The stated purpose of the research at that time "was to document the status of graduates of one aural habilitation option; auditory-verbal" (p. 190, Goldberg & Flexer). A follow-up study was…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Young Children, Oral Language, Listening
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