Observing Vocabulary Learning Strategies with an Online Annotation System

Shiou-Wen Yeh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1407–1412

Vocabulary learning is an interactive and complex process of incremental learning and constant reinforcement. Studies have also proved that students’ vocabulary learning strategies deserve detailed investigation. To meet the challenges of...

Effects of Learner Control and Learning Strategies on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learning from Interactive Hypermedia Lessons

Shiou-wen Yeh; James D. Lehman

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 10, No. 2 (2001) pp. 141–159

This study investigated the effects of learner control, English learning strategies, and the use of advance organizers on En-glish as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning from interactive hypermedia lessons. The experiment used 150 EFL subjects in...

Topics: Interaction, Multimedia

Applying Mobile Annotation APPs in EFL Reading: Students’ Perceptions and Experiences

Shiou-Wen Yeh; Ting-Yi Wu

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1546–1550

With the advancement of mobile technology, making annotations by marking text on a mobile device has become a common practice. The mobility of mobile annotations means that learners could do the reading annotation activities in any environment. The...

Topics: SIG: Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching, Usability/User Studies, Implementation Experiences

Museum-based Language Learning with Location-aware Services

Shiou-Wen Yeh; Yi-Shan Liu

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022 (Jun 20, 2022) pp. 443–446

It is important for EFL (English as Foreign Language) students to be exposed to authentic practices and ubiquitous contexts to help them extend their learning to the real world. Among a variety of environments, museums are viewed as a significant...

Topics: social networks, Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning, Mobile and ubiquitous learning

Applying Location-aware Mobile Apps to Support EFL Writing Instruction: Student Perceptions

Cheng-Ting Chen; Shiou-Wen Yeh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 730–733

Among the emerging MALL (Mobile-assisted Language Learning) applications, location-aware technology with geo-spatial tagging ability to link a word, phrase, or image to a particular physical location provides an innovative approach to support EFL ...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Comparing Online Argumentative Writing with In-Class Argumentative Writing as Assignment to the Instructor

Meng-Che Hsieh; Shiou-Wen Yeh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 920–924

This paper presents a study of an undergraduate-above level English argumentative writing course in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context. The study attempts to explore how online writing is different from in-class writing in terms of writing...

Assessing metacognitive knowledge in web-based CALL: a neural network approach

Shiou-Wen Yeh; Jia-Jiunn Lo

Computers & Education Vol. 44, No. 2 (February 2005) pp. 97–113

The assessment of learners’ metacognitive knowledge level is crucial when developing computer-assisted language learning systems. Currently, many systems assess learners’ metacognitive knowledge level with pre-instructional questionnaires or...

Language: English

Using online annotations to support error correction and corrective feedback

Shiou-Wen Yeh; Jia-Jiunn Lo

Computers & Education Vol. 52, No. 4 (May 2009) pp. 882–892

Giving feedback on second language (L2) writing is a challenging task. This research proposed an interactive environment for error correction and corrective feedback. First, we developed an online corrective feedback and error analysis system called ...

Language: English

Using Mobile Technology to Enhance English Teaching: EFL Students’ Strategies and Perceptions in a Collaborative Learning Activity

Kai-Yueh Chang; Shiou-Wen Yeh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 727–730

For EFL learners, English speaking is the most difficult skill and the most anxiety-provoking aspect of the four language skills. In recent years, the advancing mobile technologies have encouraged the development of technology-enhanced language...

Topics: Mobile Learning, English Education

Effects of confidence scores and remedial instruction on prepositions learning in adaptive hypermedia

Jia-Jiunn Lo; Hui-Mei Wang; Shiou-Wen Yeh

Computers & Education Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 2004) pp. 45–63

Although Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) provides EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students a dynamic environment for English learning, many courses in current markets still emphasize the presentation of domain knowledge but neglect...

Language: English

Designing an adaptive web-based learning system based on students’ cognitive styles identified online

Jia-Jiunn Lo; Ya-Chen Chan; Shiou-Wen Yeh

Computers & Education Vol. 58, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 209–222

This study developed an adaptive web-based learning system focusing on students’ cognitive styles. The system is composed of a student model and an adaptation model. It collected students’ browsing behaviors to update the student model for...

Scaffolding Collaborative Technical Writing with Procedural Facilitation and Synchronous Discussion

Shiou-Wen Yeh; Jia-Jiunn Lo; Jeng-Jia Huang

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 6, No. 3 (September 2011) pp. 397–419

With the advent of computer technology, researchers and instructors are attempting to devise computer support for effective collaborative technical writing. In this study, a computer-supported environment for collaborative technical writing was...

Applying GIS to develop a web-based spatial-person-temporal history educational system

Jia-Jiunn Lo; Chuen-Jung Chang; Hsiao-Han Tu; Shiou-Wen Yeh

Computers & Education Vol. 53, No. 1 (August 2009) pp. 155–168

Developing interactive history learning materials to facilitate historical thinking is one of the challenges in history teaching and learning. This study developed a web-based history educational system, which has used the acronym HES-SPATO (history ...

Language: English