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Title:
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RESEARCH ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BY USING SOCIAL SOFTWARE |
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Author(s):
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Wang Yuting, Jin Hui |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-55-7 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Ji-ping Zhang, Tomayess Issa and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Social software; foreign language learning; blog; podcast |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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59 |
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Last Page:
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65 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The social software provides us with a new learning approach. The paper conducted an investigation based on a local famous foreign language learning website by the means of questionnaire surveys, interviews and activity recording, trying to find out whether the software can help people learn a foreign language effectively, and if not, how to propose some methods to improve it. The paper gave off questionnaire surveys to 328 netizens. And then selecting 8 representatives as objects of the case study, involved in an 8-week-long recording activity, the author asked them to fill in a special form and submit it every week. Through the study, we discovered that, without supervision, the majority of learners can not persist in learning with this software. Moreover, they did not favor collaborative learning, one of the advantages of this software: they discussed little, instead, answer the questions or copy the key. Academic achievement is proportional to the length of the time, frequency of the participation. |
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