Many studies have been conducted on video and visual aids and language learning (eg. Gromik, 2012; Huang, 2015; Lee & Mayer, 2015). As many other studies have found, Gromik (2012) who conducted a case study conducted at a Japanese national university in which the participants were asked to produce one 30-second video on a teacher-selected…
Framework for Collaborative Writing
In the odd semester last year, I decided to embed collaborative writing activity into my writing class. Thirty pre-service English teachers of a university in Indonesia were put into seven groups and were assigned into an eight-week collaborative writing project using Google docs. Each group was assigned to write two essays collaboratively on Google docs.I…
Experimental Studies on Vocabulary Learning: An Article Evaluation
In one of our 510 course meeting, we talked about vocabulary learning which reminds me of these two articles on vocabulary learning. I would like to evaluate these two articles reporting two studies which employed two different experimental designs. Gettys, Imhof, and Kautz (2001) writing in Foreign Language Annals titled Computer-Assisted Reading: The effect of…
C-map for Semantic Mapping
I was really happy when my group mate, Huang, picked C-map as our tool for this project. As a visual learner, I think mapping tools are really helpful to map and describe abstract concepts. Since the multimodal tutorial assignment also expects us to come up with a creative way of using the technology for language…
CALL in Our Real Classrooms: Indonesia’s Context
Introduction ‘Most schools do not have computers’ is a common sentiment when we talk about using technology in the classroom. To me, the sentiment says two things. First is that technology and computer are two interchangeable terms. Technology means computer. It means the term technology in this case is given a narrower definition that it…