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Conference: Chicago International Conference on Education 2014 (Chicago ICE), May 2014, USA

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:November 10, 2013
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ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The 2nd annual Chicago International Conference on Education (Chicago ICE 2014) will be held in Chicago, a rich and complex urban landscape. Chicago ICE 2014 will again provide a venue to bring together a wide audience of academicians and professionals in related fields to discuss clearly circumscribed topics, engage in fruitful debate, in an effort to facilitate mutual understanding that will lead to possible solutions to educational concerns and continue to build a strong network of global educational leaders.

“We” The Teachers: Meeting in an International Classroom for Better Education is the theme of Chicago ICE 2014. Our goal this year is to target a diversified field of international experience and expertise in the four key areas that delineate who “We” are. (more…)

Research Paper: ‘CALL for Researchers: Capturing a Ubiquitous Influence of Technology’ by Mie Shigemitsu

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:November 10, 2013
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ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

The last few decades saw a dramatic progress in computer technology, which challenged many taken-for-granted assumptions about human communication. In terms of language classroom settings, integrating computers into teaching and learning brings certain communication patterns and, at the same time, poses the question about adaptation of classroom communicative practices. In order to understand a ubiquitous influence of technology in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), it is important to examine what actually happens in classrooms with and without computers and how the teacher and the students use languages in different contexts. (more…)

Research Paper: ‘Students’ Motivation towards Computer Use in EFL Learning’ by Gulten Genc & Selami Aydin

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:November 10, 2013
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ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#39 | November 11 , 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

It has been widely recognized that language instruction that integrates technology has become popular, and has had a tremendous impact on language learning process whereas learners are expected to be more motivated in a web-based Computer assisted language learning program, and improve their comprehensive language ability. Thus, the present paper examines English as a foreign language students’ motivation level in using web-based Computer-Assisted Language Learning. The sample group of the study consisted of 126 learners of English as foreign language at preparatory school of Inonu University. (more…)