Computer-assisted language learning

Computers are used pretty much for everything these days, and schools don’t fall behind, as different computer devices are of great help to the school work and teachers in every classroom. People already use computers for everything and pretty much the whole world around them is built with some kind of computer in use. For example, when family goes to eat at Burger King these days, there is this “smart” soda machine, with just one touch screen display and one button, they are able to create one…

“The Relationship Between Global Competence and Learning Motivation: An Empirical Study in Critical Language Classrooms”, Foreign Language Annals, vol. 48, Iss. 3, pp. 511-520. Summary: This article studies how the global influences of different countries are related to the learning of these countries’ language, in the classrooms of the United States. The researchers believed that there was relationship between global competence and language learning motivation, and therefore set global…

The article begins by discussing the history of ELL (also called heritage language students in the article) students in the state of California. Proposition 227 supported an English-only curriculum and claimed that ELL learners would learn English much more quickly if they were taught only in English. Senate Bill 2042 replaced the Cross Cultural, language, and Academic Development (CLAD) credential with an Authorization to Teach English Learners credential which did not address the cultural…

Basically, we are aware that there are two forms of language learning. The first type is second language learning and next is foreign language learning (FLL). Learners from English language speaking environment are categorized as English language learners (ELL) and theylearn English as a second language. In contrast, foreign language learning is when the language studied by the learners is not spoken in the native country of the learners. There are key differences which are relevant to teaching…

I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people, to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on, then read simple passages, later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by…

knowledge of public health and law. An internship with the CAPA London Program can assist me towards my path by preparing me as a professional and helping me to become a well-rounded intellectual. Learning is a life-long endeavor to me, and I believe that this specific CAPA program would enhance my learning by providing me with a plethora of exciting, new resources. I would like to take my nursing career further by being able to defend patient rights in a legal setting, and by advocating for…

example, as an Arabic native speaker and previous English language learner and a current English as a foreign language instructor, and a future assistant professor at the University of Jeddah who has been involved in multicultural and multilingual contexts for several years, I produced a paper to investigate language use, motivation and attitudes towards foreign language learning. Through this investigation I learned how attitudes about language use influence the way some Arabic students…

improvement of both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. I have the ability to support the learning needs of others and the capability to instruct via several different learning styles. I have a thorough understanding that adult learning involves multiple forms including written work, supervision, the direct observation of clinical procedures, verbal communication or the use of group learning and I recognise the importance of understanding that different people learn through different…

throughout its existence. From a representative core of data assessments, we have formed our plan of restructuring. Instructional teacher strategies, teacher and parent developed student safety nets, ramp-up classes along with parental involvement and assisted behavior guide patterns form the bases of our academic progress plan. We expect to elevate our scores to a higher percentage level in each domain of the Criterion Referenced Competency Test. Our expectations are due to our knowledge of…

INTRODUCTION Interactive learning is a learning system that combines together the effect of social networking and urban computing within the same curriculum. Interactive learning has become dominant from a round 2000 and this is due to the increase in the number of people involved in the digital technology and virtual communication. It is a system where the boundary between the educator and the learner means completely nothing and the educators can no longer be regarded as the keeper of…