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Sha Yang
Purdue University
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Supporting Oral Narrative Development of Kindergarten English Language Learners Using Multimedia Stories
Sha Yang
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2016) pp. 381–397
Narrative ability comes before literacy for bilingual students and helps narrow down the gap in text-level literacy between English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Kindergarten ELLs are the best age group to receive...
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The impact of the learning network: A qualitative case study on learning with Lotus LearningSpace
Sha Li
The impact of the learning@network: A qualitative case study on learning with Lotus@LearningSpace (2001) pp. 1–180
Scope and method of study . The purpose of this study was to explore how Lotus LearningSpace network impacted the HES 3002 distance class, and what were the main factors that affected learning in this class. This study was a...
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AI-Based Chatterbots and Spoken English Teaching: A Critical Analysis
Guoquan Sha
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 22, No. 3 (July 2009) pp. 269–281
The aim of various approaches implemented, whether the classical "three Ps" (presentation, practice, and production) or communicative language teaching (CLT), is to achieve communicative competence. Although a lot of software developed for teaching...
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Using Google as a Super Corpus to Drive Written Language Learning: A Comparison with the British National Corpus
Guoquan Sha
Computer Assisted Language Learning Vol. 23, No. 5 (December 2010) pp. 377–393
Data-driven learning (DDL), or corpus-based language learning, involves the learner in an exploratory task to discover appropriate expressions or collocates regarding his writing. However, the problematic units of meaning in each learner's writing...
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The Format-Shifting Dilemma in Distance Education
Sha Li
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 4, No. 2 (2003) pp. 109–27
Examines the hidden issues caused by the format-shifting effect in distance education. Findings of a study of undergraduate students indicated that learning format shifting is a period of dilemma that occurs during the early period for learners...
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Games in Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions of Barriers to Game-based Learning
William Watson; Sha Yang
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 2 (April 2016) pp. 153–170
This study explored inhibiting factors teachers in the United States have encountered or perceived using games for instruction, and how teacher perceptions of barriers were influenced by their gender, teaching level and experience with using games....
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The Online Top-Down Modeling Model
Sha Li; Daonian Liu
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 6, No. 4 (2005) pp. 343–359
The Internet has become a major resource for teaching and learning. Educators are innovating methods and strategies to integrate Internet technology effectively into instruction to meet their various needs. Providing learning models and...
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A Pedagogical Framework for Technology Integration in ESL Classrooms:The Promises and Challenges of Integration
Sha Yang; Victoria Walker
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2015) pp. 179–203
Technologies have the potential to support language teaching and learning, but English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers in the United States (U.S.) either sparingly use technologies for instruction or use them at low level. Although previous...
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Ranking the Difficulty Level of the Knowledge Units Based on Learning Dependency
Jun Liu; Sha Sha; Qinghua Zheng; Wei Zhang
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 10, No. 1 (2012) pp. 31–43
Assigning difficulty level indicators to the knowledge units helps the learners plan their learning activities more efficiently. This paper focuses on how to use the topology of a knowledge map to compute and rank the difficulty levels of knowledge...
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Increasing the Pace of an Integral Library System in China: Moving Toward the Twenty-First Century
Qiang Zhu; Sha Li Zhang
College & Research Libraries Vol. 59, No. 2 (1998) pp. 169–76
Academic libraries in China are transforming traditionally isolated and separated operations by initiating an integral library system to connect all academic libraries nationwide with each other and with other information networks abroad. The...
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Audio CBTs: An Initial Framework for the Use of Sound in Computerized Tests
Cynthia G. Parshall; Sha Balizet
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice Vol. 20, No. 2 (2001) pp. 5–15
Addresses the potential benefits of using sound in computerized assessments. Describes some current computer uses of the audio channel of communication and outlines a proposed audio computer-based testing framework. Provides some examples of...
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Software Support for Online Mentoring Programs: A Research-Inspired Design
Kevin D. O'Neill; Mark Weiler; Li Sha
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 13, No. 1 (April 2005) pp. 109–131
This article provides an overview of Telementoring Orchestrator[TM] (TMO), a new web-based software tool designed to aid small or large organizations in supporting telementoring programs (also called online mentoring or e-mentoring programs). In...
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The Development of an Audio Computer-Based Classroom Test of ESL Listening Skills
Sha Balizet; Dave Treder; Cynthia G. Parshall
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1999 (April 1999)
There are very few examples of audio-based computerized tests, but for many disciplines, such as foreign language and music, there appear to be many benefits to this type of testing. The purpose of the present study was to develop and compare...
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The Web Integration and Topdown Modeling
Sha Li; Edward Jones; Rujiang Li
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2940–2945
The Internet has become a major resource for learning. But the most classrooms use the external online learning resource (online resources developed by the people other than the instructor him/herself) that could be time consuming to find and not...
Topics: Integration
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Understanding students’ preferences toward the smart classroom learning environment: Development and validation of an instrument
Jason MacLeod; Harrison Hao Yang; Sha Zhu; Yanhong Li
Computers & Education Vol. 122, No. 1 (July 2018) pp. 80–91
This article presents the rationale for developing an instrument and initial evidence of validity and reliability in a higher education context. The 40-item instrument measures students' preferences toward the smart classroom learning environment...
Language: English
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Learners' Preferences in Using Online Learning Resources
Sha Li; Amy Leh; Yujian Fu; Xiang Zhao
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 10, No. 3 (2009) pp. 299–303
This article describes an action research in a graduate educational technology class. The study employed the Online Top-Down Modeling Model (Li & Liu, 2005) as a case in which the students used the learning resources from the course website to...
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Parents’ and Students’ Attitudes Toward Tablet Integration in Schools
Sha Zhu; Harrison Yang; Jason MacLeod; Yinghui Shi; Di Wu
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 19, No. 4 (Sep 26, 2018)
This study explored parents’ and students’ attitudes toward tablet usage in a formal educational setting. A total of 212 students from four 7th-grade classes, along with 145 of their parents, responded to the Tablet Acceptance Questionnaire....
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Understanding Mobile Learning from the Perspective of Self-Regulated Learning
L Sha; C-K Looi; W Chen; B H. Zhang
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 28, No. 4 (August 2012) pp. 366–378
Cognizant of the research gap in the theorization of mobile learning, this paper conceptually explores how the theories and methodology of self-regulated learning (SRL), an active area in contemporary educational psychology, are inherently suited to ...