This book concerns scientific and technical issues that are of a high interest for several
aspects of the Informatics1 of the future. It is not the case to paint a surface of “dialogism” …

Although corrective feedback (CF) has received much interest in the second language
acquisition literature, relatively little research has investigated the relationship between CF …

A number of recent studies have identified classroom blogging as a promising approach to
teaching writing in English as a second language (ESL) in non-Anglophone higher …

This article assesses the impact of translation on the acquisition of vocabulary for higher-
intermediate level students of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). The use of …

Self-assessment questionnaires have long been used in tutoring systems to help
researchers measure and evaluate various aspects of a student's performance during …

Learning a foreign or second language (L2) is a long process that can begin for different
reasons. People may find it intrinsically 'cool', view it as practical career strategy, or have an …

We apply a previously reported measure of dialog cohesion to a corpus of spoken tutoring
dialogs in which motivation was measured. We find that cohesion significantly predicts …

" arrative-centered learning environments tightly integrate educational sub8ect matter and
interactive stories, where students serve as active participants in story-centric problem …

Using longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N= 1,364), the purpose of the current …

The purpose for this phenomenological study was to investigate students' perceptions as to
why some middle school students lose their intrinsic motivation to learn and develop apathy …