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How Students Of Japanese Perceive And Use Technology, David Rubino
How Students Of Japanese Perceive And Use Technology, David Rubino
Masters Theses
The role of technology in education has expanded to a near universal reality. In foreign languages the field of Technology-enhanced Language Learning, has long sought to effectively implement instruction with these tools, and often to great success, often through the guise of Computer-assisted Language Learning. However, most studies investigating the student perception of class structures incorporating technology are based on what instructors have implemented.
Students, the counterparts of instructors, often own more than one technological tool and will often employ these tools in their studies. For learners of foreign languages, certain aspects of technology are selected for various tasks based …
Role-Play In The Chinese Classroom, Matthew Werth
Role-Play In The Chinese Classroom, Matthew Werth
Masters Theses
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing push for foreign language teachers to use a communicative approach to language instruction. One area this can be seen is through role-plays, activities where students take on a persona other than themselves to complete a task in the target language. Despite the growing popularity of role-play, there has been little empirical research looking at the impact of role-play on students. In particular, the differences between large group and small group role-plays remain virtually unstudied.
This thesis looks at role-play in Chinese language classrooms from the perspectives of both teachers and students. …