• DocumentCode
    2767556
  • Title

    Evaluation of Factors Affecting the Efficacy of English Acqusition in CALL Environment

  • Author

    Hongyan, Zheng ; Yongmei, Xiao ; Zhe, Li

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Literature, Hebei Univ. of Eng., Handan, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-15 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    494
  • Lastpage
    496
  • Abstract
    This paper is to elaborate on the factors that influence the learners´ language acquisition in multimedia environment. It first describes a course-support hypermedia language- learning environment based on computer-assisted language learning (CALL) system. And then it does some research to identify positive and negative factors influencing the effectiveness of CALL system. The factors considered in this study were the teaching style, help options and student´s motivation. After a period of two-year-research and test, the corresponding data analyses and results of this study confirmed the influence of the above factors on the effectiveness and usefulness of CALL system.
  • Keywords
    hypermedia; natural language processing; CALL system; English language efficiency; computer-assisted language learning system; course-support hypermedia language; help options factor; multimedia environment; student motivation factor; teaching style factor; Application software; Batteries; Chemical sensors; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computerized monitoring; Energy consumption; Network topology; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks; Call system; computer-assisted language learning system; hypermedia;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Technology and Development, 2009. ICCTD '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kota Kinabalu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3892-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCTD.2009.87
  • Filename
    5360035