Spiral Learning: An Introductory Course on Reading LOTE Online

Ulf Schuetze

Journal of Learning Design Vol. 4, No. 1 (2010) pp. 24–31

In teaching reading, authentic texts with abundant lexical items and complex grammatical structures are typically used (Roche, 1992). Unfortunately, this has been a challenge for students enrolled in reading courses developed for English as a Second ...

Live Chat / E-Mail in SLA: Two tools, two methods, one outcome.

Ulf Schuetze

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 732–736

This session reports on a hybrid second language course using three learning environments: face-to-face communication; multi-media lab; online component. The course was taught at the University of Victoria in Canada (L1: English; L2: German) in the...

Topics: Communication, Languages, Students

Online Reading Course German: Development, Design, Dynamics

Ulf Schuetze

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 793–796

This paper introduces a new type of reading course that avoids using complex structures and an overload of lexical items at the beginner’s level. The course was developed by didactizing texts and applying the idea of task-cycling (Levi & Kennedy,...

Exchanging Second Language Messages Online: Developing an Intercultural Communicative Competence?

Ulf Schuetze

Foreign Language Annals Vol. 41, No. 4 (2008) pp. 660–673

This article reports on a study carried out twice on an online second language course that was set up between a Canadian University and a German University. In that course, students of German in Canada and students of English in Germany exchanged 2...

How do female and male students work with an online vocabulary program?

Ulf Schuetze

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1620–1625

This paper reports on a large-scale study carried at the University of Victoria on second language vocabulary acquisition. The research was based on intentional vocabulary training in combination with the use of information technology as suggested...

Virtual Vocabulary: Research and Learning in Lexical Processing

Ulf Schuetze; Gerlinde Weimer-Stuckmann

CALICO Journal Vol. 27, No. 3 (May 2010) pp. 517–528

This article presents the concept development, research programming, and learning design of a lexical processing web application, Virtual Vocabulary, which was developed using theories in both cognitive psychology and second language acquisition ...

Retention in SLA Lexical Processing

Ulf Schuetze; Gerlinde Weimer-Stuckmann

CALICO Journal Vol. 28, No. 2 (January 2011) pp. 460–472

Second language learners are faced with the challenging task of remembering many new words. Exactly how learners are supposed to accomplish that task is disputed. Research on lexical processing that has been carried out in cognitive psychology...