The Ideal and Reality of Implementing Technology into English Language Teaching: A Case Study of Using a Peer Review System

  • Wei-Wei Shen
  • Ming-Hsiu Michelle Tsai
  • Jim-Min Lin
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10676)

Abstract

Although research into peer review claimed some convenience and benefits of executing online or computer-mediated-communication peer revisions in writing courses, few of them mentioned the control of the peer reviewing process via the help of technology. This paper depicts a possibility of creating a controlling online system on the one hand, and the process of executing it on the other. Using the subjects who were studying English as a foreign language, the preliminary study has shown some merits but raised some precautions of conducting this system for future studies.

Keywords

Computer assisted language learning English language teaching Writing Peer review 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the funds of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China under the contract numbers MOST 102-2221-E035-068, MOST 103-2221-E035-051, MOST 103-2511-S-468-002 and MOST 105-2511-S-035-002-MY2.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Foreign Languages and LiteratureFeng Chia UniversityTaichungTaiwan
  2. 2.Department of Information Engineering and Computer ScienceFeng Chia UniversityTaichungTaiwan

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