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Information practices and user interfaces: Student use of an iOS application in special education
A framework connecting concepts from user interface design with those from information studies is applied in a study that integrated a location-aware mobile application into two special education classes at di...
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Develo** an adaptive tool to select, plan, and scaffold oral assessment tasks for undergraduate courses
The increased linguistic and cultural diversity of undergraduate classrooms at English language institutions has imposed additional pedagogical and assessment challenges on instructors, many of whom lack the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Interactive Event: Enabling Vocabulary Acquisition while Providing Mobile Communication Support
We have developed an adaptive communication support tool that also supports vocabulary acquisition. This tool is called VocabNomad; it is one of the few mobile assisted language learning tools that aims to sup...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mobile Adaptive Communication Support for Vocabulary Acquisition
Language learners are often isolated because of their inability to communicate. Adaptive mobile communication support tools could be used to scaffold both their interaction with others and their vocabulary acq...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ProTutor: Historic Open Learner Models for Pronunciation Tutoring
Acquiring proper pronunciation is difficult for second language learners. We built a Russian pronunciation tutor, called ProTutor, that uses open learner models (OLMs). Of particular interest is ProTutor’s “hi...