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Qiao, Wang; Yijun, Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study explored the role of live transcripts in online synchronous academic English classrooms by focusing on how automatically generated live transcripts influence the learning outcomes of lower-proficiency and higher-proficiency learners and on their perceptions towards live transcripts. The study adopted a 2 × 2 factorial design, with the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Online Courses
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Yagi, Kenta; Sato, Yasutaka; Sakaguchi, Satoshi; Goda, Mitsuhiro; Hamano, Hirofumi; Aizawa, Fuka; Shimizu, Mayuko; Inoue-Hamano, Arisa; Nishimori, Toshihide; Tagi, Masato; Kanno, Marina; Matsuoka-Ando, Rie; Yoshioka, Toshihiko; Matstubara, Yoshiko; Izawa-Ishizawa, Yuki; Shimizu, Rieko; Maruo, Akinori; Kuniki, Yurika; Sakamoto, Yoshika; Itobayashi, Sayuri; Zamami, Yoshito; Yanagawa, Hiroaki; Ishizawa, Keisuke – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, understanding how to hold future online academic conferences effectively is imperative. We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on academic conferences, including facilities and settings for attendance, participation status, cost burden, and preferences for future styles of holding conferences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Medicine, Professional Personnel
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Wang, Qiao – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study searched for open-source semantic similarity tools and evaluated their effectiveness in automated content scoring of fact-based essays written by English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. Fifty writing samples under a fact-based writing task from an academic English course in a Japanese university were collected and a gold standard…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Scoring
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Muranaka-Vuletich, Hiromi – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Many tertiary language courses have some online components as part of their blended learning initiatives. These online activities could be part of assessments, and online quizzes/tests can be used as preparation for the demanding final written examination. This study attempts to shed some light on the effects of online tests on final examination…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
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Yeigh, Tony; Lynch, David; Turner, David; Fradale, Paul; Willis, Royce; Sell, Ken; Lawless, Ed – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This article reports on findings from the application of BL to a school improvement project involving two K-12 international schools in Japan. These findings relate to six research questions concerning how involvement with this project impacted teachers' ICT confidence, how change management was perceived for the project, how this project sought…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Improvement, International Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tsubak, Michiko; Maeda, Yoshihiro – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (2011) started the 'Foreign Language Activities' in fifth grade based on the new Courses of Study in April of 2011. The ministry has considered beginning this course in third grade and the 'English Course' in 5th grade in order to improve students' reading, writing,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Individual Differences, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language)
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Gromik, Nicolas A. – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Sixty-seven Japanese English as a Second Language undergraduate learners completed one smartphone video production per week for 12 weeks, based on a teacher-selected theme. Designed as a case study for this specific context, data from students' oral performances was analyzed on a weekly basis for their use of the Academic Word List (AWL). A…
Descriptors: Word Lists, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The subject of computer science (CS) and computer science education (CSE) has relatively recently arisen as a subject for inclusion within the compulsory school curriculum. Up to this present time, a major focus of technologies in the school curriculum has in many countries been on applications of existing technologies into subject practice (both…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Integrated Curriculum, Required Courses, Educational Policy