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Cheng, Hsiao-fang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2015
English textbooks are widely used in every discipline in the majority of colleges and universities in Taiwan. To prepare college students for their future careers, it is necessary they be given systematic training and practice in reading these books. However, due to time constraints, most content teachers focus on the delivery of content rather…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yeh, Hui-Chin; Yang, Yu-Fen; Wong, Wing-Kwong – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
This study aims at arousing college students' metacognition in detecting lexical cohesion during online text construction as WordNet served as a lexical resource. A total of 83 students were requested to construct texts through sequences of actions identified as interaction chains in this study. Interaction chains are grouped and categorized as a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Metacognition, Interaction
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Tsou, Wenli – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study used a mixed-method approach to investigate the effectiveness of Readers Theater (RT) in promoting English as a foreign language children's reading and writing proficiency after a participation period of one semester. In addition, the researcher recorded and analyzed children's learning motivation and feedback toward RT. The…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Theater Arts