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A teacher development program on CALL materials evaluation: teachers' knowledge and attitudes toward technology
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2016)
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Development and validation of virtual interactive tasks for an aviation English assessment
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2015)
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The effects of metacognitive strategy training on ESL learners' self-directed use of TED Talk videos for second language listening
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2015)
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Teachers' attitudes towards and uses of translanguaging in English language classrooms in Iowa
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2014)
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CALL-infused project-based learning: a case study of adult ESL students learning prepositions
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2014)
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Project-based learning (PBL) with computers has become a topic of interest, and there has been a call for research to determine whether they facilitate learning and motivate students. This case study examines how English as a second language (ESL) adult learners' proficiency with prepositions was affected by project-based learning with enhanced input, explicit instruction, and production practice using the software program Hot Potatoes. The 14 participants were part of an intermediate ESL class offered by a Midwestern community college in the U.S. The students were divided into three different levels: low, intermediate, and high. The students then were divided into three main mixed-level groups, and each group was given a handout with a different set of grammatical rules. Each group was asked to create a 16-item multiple-choice quiz based on the rules in the handout. Following this, each group entered another group's 16 multiple-choice quiz into the software program, Hot Potatoes. In the final stage, each group took a Hot Potatoes quiz made by another group whose work they had not yet been exposed to. In addition, the students studied a list of 16 prepositions outside of class; the list was not part of the project. The students took a pre-, post-, and delayed posttest and were interviewed about their opinions about the project and the list. The results of the one-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that there was a significant gain in pre-post test scores for the project. Although preferences and scores did not correlate, qualitative findings suggest that the intermediate and high-level students preferred the project, whereas the low-level students preferred the list. Ten students used strategies that were used during the project, such as forming rules for prepositions or finding example sentences on the Internet, to help them study the list. Thus, the qualitative data suggested that students transferred the strategies to a new context. Eleven students stated they would like to do a similar project in the future.
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and Multicultural Education; Applied Linguistics; Bilingual; CALL; Computer-Assisted Language Learning; English as a second language; English Language and Literature; Multilingual; prepositions; project-based learning; Teaching English as a Second Language; Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics; Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics (Computer-Assisted Lanugage Learning)
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URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/14174 https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5181&context=etd
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Field dependence/ field independence: how do students perform in CALL-based listening activities?
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2005)
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Second language needs analysis in the workplace: a case study of Hispanic immigrant manufacturing workers
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2005)
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Where are the Latinos?: improving representation at Metropolitan Community College in South Omaha, Nebraska
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2005)
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The mental verbs "think" and "believe" in authorial evaluative "that" statements: a corpus study of four academic disciplines
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2005)
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ESL dialogue journaling in the home environment
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2003)
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A corpus-based study of direct speech quotatives in American English conversation
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2002)
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Parallel concordancing: are there benefits for intermediate learners?
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2002)
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The integration of CALL in the ESL classroom: reconciling agendas
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2002)
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Evaluation of computer software for elementary school ESL classes
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2000)
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A comparison of the use of modal verbs in research articles by professionals and non-native speaking graduate students
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (2000)
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Cultural partners: an exchange of language and culture between adults
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1998)
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A project in English for specific purposes: English for Hispanic workers at a bulk mailing company
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1997)
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Backgrounds in L1 literacy and attitudes toward text in an ESOL writing classroom
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1997)
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Rhetoric, syntax, and evaluative styles in the assessment of nonnative speakers' texts
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1996)
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Language extinction and the status of North American Indian languages
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In: Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1994)
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