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Baralt, Melissa; Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura – Language Teaching Research, 2011
The construct of anxiety is often believed to be the affective factor with the greatest potential to pervasively affect the learning process (Horwitz, 2001), and recent research has demonstrated that anxiety can mediate whether learners are able to notice feedback and subsequently produce output (Sheen, 2008). In order to reduce the negative…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Baralt, Melissa; Pennestri, Susan; Selvandin, Marie – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
This paper introduces readers to Wordle, a data visualization tool, and describes how word clouds, or wordles generated by Wordle, were used in an action research project designed to facilitate the teaching of foreign language (FL) writing within a dual coding theoretical framework. Over the course of one semester, students in a third-semester…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Strategies, Action Research, Second Language Learning