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Amir Reza Rahimi – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The university curriculum has been urged to incorporate 21st-century digital competence and skills, particularly information literacy, in accordance with recommendations made by numerous organizations, including the Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Instructors are then…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Skill Development, Higher Education, Language Arts
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Xodabande, Ismail; Hashemi, Mohammad R. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The current study examined the use of electronic textbooks designed as mobile applications for learning vocabulary in English among Iranian university students. To this end, 95 university students in an experimental (N = 50) and a control group (N = 45) participated in the study. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was employed and over…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Books, Textbooks, English (Second Language)
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Seraji, Farhad; Ansari, Saied; Chosarih, Muhammad Reza Yousefzadeh – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Increasing children's access to media has attached greater significance to media literacy education, the content and methods of which have changed with media development. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) method on media literacy competencies in elementary students. To this end, 95 female sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education
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Ebadi, Saman; Ashrafabadi, Fateme – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study investigated how Augmented Reality (AR) impacted EFL learners' reading comprehension and attitudes toward utilizing AR. A mixed-method was used with a sample composed of 64 upper-intermediate EFL learners in a state university in Iran. Independent and paired sample t-test were used to investigate the experimental group's reading…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension
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Kavoshian, Saeedeh; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Koehler, Thomas – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The purpose of this study was three-fold: first, it aimed to develop a scale to shed light on English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perceptions of using Mobile Social Network Sites (MSNSs) in language teaching and learning. To this end, a 36-item MSNSs Utility Perceptions Inventory (MUPI) was developed. Second, the current study made an…
Descriptors: Barriers, Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pourhosein Gilakjani, Abbas; Rahimy, Ramin – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Teaching (CAPT) provides EFL teachers with more alternatives to help learners who have serious problems in learning pronunciation. CAPT also provides EFL learners with a private, stress-free environment where they can have access to an enormous amount of input and repetitive practice pronunciation at their own pace.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mirabolghasemi, Marva; Choshaly, Sahar Hosseinikhah; Iahad, Noorminshah A. – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
E-learning readiness has been initiated in higher education institutions (HEI) as an attempt to improve institutions' service delivery. Meeting and managing the expectations of students using e-learning systems to facilitate teaching and learning activities is a prominent way to make HEI competitive. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Readiness, Teaching Methods
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Gilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein; Rahimy, Ramin – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
This study examined the factors that influenced Iranian teachers' use of computer-assisted pronunciation teaching (CAPT) in teaching English pronunciation. Iranian teachers have serious problems in teaching pronunciation such as lack of enough time, knowledge, experience, training, and suitable pronunciation materials. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Mohamadi Zenouzagh, Zohre – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
This study investigated the effect of multimedia learning on textuality of Iranian EFL (English as Foreign Language) intermediate learners' writing performance in individual, collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities from student and teacher perspectives. The results of Multivariate and repeated measure analysis of variance on 90…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Mohammadhasani, Nasrin; Fardanesh, Hashem; Hatami, Javad; Mozayani, Naser; Fabio, Rosa Angela – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Gaining the attention is the first key step to enhance learning. In Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as the most prevalent deficit in school age, the learners face some impairment in attention that requires appropriate intervention. An environment that embedded Pedagogical Agent in computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has been…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology