Abstract
Social networking services (SNS) have gained its popularity and utility in the past years, and there is an increasing interest in using SNS as an educational tool. Skype in particular provides teachers with a suitable platform to enhance students' language abilities and it is ideal for role-playing based learning activities. Role-playing has been proved to be an effective English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching tool. This pilot study was conducted on 42 students attending an English conversation course. Students' speaking errors during a role-playing Skype-based activity were being investigated with both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The findings of this pilot study indicated that Skype in combination with role-playing activities could gradually reduce the number of speaking errors and help improve speaking skills of EFL learners.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 312-319 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Volume | 8167 LNCS |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 12th International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2013 - Kenting, Taiwan Duration: 2013 Oct 6 → 2013 Oct 9 |
Keywords
- Social networking service
- computer-assisted language learning
- role-playing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science