OLLReN: Teaching and Learning: Articles

Teaching and Learning Resources

These pages contain a collection of research and resources on effective teaching and learning in Online and Digital Language Learning contexts.

Rock, M., Schoenfeld, N., Zigmond, N., Gable, R., Gregg, M., Ploessl, D., & Salter, A. (2013). Can You Skype Me Now? Developing Teachers' Classroom Management Practices Through Virtual Coaching. Beyond Behavior, 22(3), 15-23.
Rovai, A. (2001). Building classroom community at a distance: A case study. Educational Technology Research and Development, 49(4), pp.33-48.
Shneiderman, B., Borkowski, E., Alavi, M. and Norman, K. (1998). Emergent patterns of teaching/learning in electronic classrooms. Educational Technology Research and Development, 46(4), pp.23-42.
Wang, Y. and Chen, N. (2009). Criteria for evaluating synchronous learning management systems: arguments from the distance language classroom. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 22(1), pp.1-18.
Yang, Y. (2011). Engaging students in an online situated language learning environment. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 24(2), pp.181-198.

Bueno-Alastuey, M. and López Pérez, M. (2013). Evaluation of a blended learning language course: students’ perceptions of appropriateness for the development of skills and language areas. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 27(6), pp.509-527.
Hopkins, J. (2010). Distance language learners' perceptions of assessed, student-led speaking tasks via a synchronous audiographic conferencing tool. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 4(3), pp.235-258.
Hsu, L. (2013). English as a foreign language learners’ perception of mobile assisted language learning: a cross-national study. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 26(3), pp.197-213.
Jung, I. (2010). The dimensions of e-learning quality: from the learner’s perspective. Educational Technology Research and Development, 59(4), pp.445-464.
Sun, S. (2014). Learner perspectives on fully online language learning. Distance Education, 35(1), pp.18-42.
Tian, J. and Wang, Y. (2010). Taking language learning outside the classroom: learners' perspectives of eTandem learning via Skype. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 4(3), pp.181-197.

Alemi, M. and Pashmforoosh, R. (2016) What is Facilitating Long-term Retention of Vocabulary: Computer-assisted, Mobile-based, or Dictionary Involvement Learning? Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (1).
Golonka, E., Bowles, A., Frank, V., Richardson, D. and Freynik, S. (2012). Technologies for foreign language learning: a review of technology types and their effectiveness. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 27(1), pp.70-105.
Kinzie, M. (1990). Requirements and benefits of effective interactive instruction: Learner control, self-regulation, and continuing motivation. Educational Technology Research and Development, 38(1), pp.5-21.
Mellati, M. and Khademi, M. (2015). The Impacts of Distance Interactivity on Learners' Achievements in Online Mobile Language Learning. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 10(3), pp.19-35.
Sato, T., Murase, F. and Burden, T. (2015). Is mobile-assisted language learning really useful? An examination of recall automatization and learner autonomy. Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy.

Kitade, K. (2000). L2 Learners' Discourse and SLA Theories in CMC: Collaborative Interaction in Internet Chat. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 13(2), pp.143-166.
McCall, I. (2011). My UniSpace: applying e-mentoring to language learning. The Language Learning Journal, 39(3), pp.313-328.
Plonsky, L. and Ziegler, N. (2016) The CALL-SLA interface: Insights from a second-order synthesis, Language, Learning and Technology 20(2):17-37.
Ros i Solé, C. and Hopkins, J. (2007). Contrasting Two Approaches to Distance Language Learning. Distance Education, 28(3), pp.351-370.
Terhune, N. (2015). Language learning going global: linking teachers and learners via commercial Skype-based CMC. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 29(6), pp.1071-1089.
Vick, R., Crosby, M. and Ashworth, D. (2000). Japanese and American Students Meet on the Web: Collaborative Language Learning through Everyday Dialogue with Peers. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 13(3), pp.199-219.
Yamada, M., Kitamura, S., Matsukawa, H., Misono, T., Kitani, N. and Yamauchi, Y. (2014). Collaborative filtering for expansion of learner’s background knowledge in online language learning: does “top-down” processing improve vocabulary proficiency?. Educa