Learning Culture and Language Through Icts: Methods for Enhanced Instruction

✍ Scribed by Maiga Chang, Chen-wo Kuo

• Publisher: Information Science Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learning Culture and Language through ICTs: Methods for Enhanced Instruction offers students, instructors, and researchers an authoritative reference to the current progress of language and cultural e-learning. A high quality collection for libraries and academicians, this book covers pertinent topics such as second language learning and computer learning principles.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 17
Online Synchronous English
Learning from Activity
Theory Perspectives......Page 22
Supporting Learner Reflection
in the Language
Translation Class......Page 42
A Reading Evaluation Method
for English as a Foreign
Language Learners Based on
Reading Performances......Page 62
Developing Hypertext Reading
Materials for the Teaching
of Arabic......Page 79
Culture and Language Learning
in Computer-Enhanced or
Assisted Language Learning......Page 94
Achieving Cultural
Acquiescence Through Foreign
Language E-Learning......Page 109
Learning Cultural Heritage
Through Information and
Communication Technologies:
A Case Study......Page 124
Using Blended Learning to
Teach Foreign Brides Chinese......Page 141
Exploring the Concept of
Emergent Coherence in a
Corpus of Korean ESL Texts......Page 160
The Role of Interactive
Computer Graphics to
Augment the Learning
Experience of Cultural
Heritage Within Museums
and Expositions......Page 174
A Mandarin E-Learning System
in Pervasive Environment......Page 191
An Intelligent Web-Based
Human-Computer Interaction
System with Natural Language
CSIEC and its Integration into
English Instruction......Page 215
Developing Electronic
Portfolios in a Computer
Supported Collaborative
Learning Environment......Page 230
Synthetic Speech in
Computer-Enhanced Foreign
Language Learning......Page 248
Culture-Based Language
Learning Objects:
A CALL Approach for a
Ubiquitous World......Page 276
Intercultural Dimensions in the
Information Society:
Reflections on Designing and Developing
Culturally-Oriented Learning......Page 295
Intercultural Collaborative
Project-Based Learning in
Online Environments......Page 307
Seven Principles of Good
Practice for Virtual
International Collaboration......Page 319
Communication Barriers and
Conflicts in Cross-Cultural
E-Learning......Page 339
Compilation of References......Page 352
About the Contributors......Page 378
Index......Page 387