Jinrong Li

Georgia Southern University | GSU · College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Social annotation tools hold great potential in facilitating students’ academic reading by transforming solitary reading tasks into collaborative experience, but little is known about how social annotations can affect students’ academic reading motivation. This study examined the use of Perusall, a social annotation tool, among students in three un...

This edited volume examines the opportunities and challenges brought by the expansion of online language learning opportunities and discuss how these tools and opportunities may help strengthen assessment and inform pedagogical decisions in online language teaching.

Despite the benefits of peer review, there are still challenges that need to be addressed to make it more effective for L2 students. With the development of technology, computer-mediated peer review has captured increasing attention from L2 writing researchers and instructors. While Turnitin is known for its use in detecting plagiarism, its newly d...

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While rubrics have their limitations, many studies show that they can clarify teacher expectations, and in comparison to a simple score or a letter grade, provide more information about the strengths and weaknesses of students' writing. Few studies, however, have explored the variations between students' and teachers' readings of rubrics and how su...

The development of language processing technologies and statistical methods has enabled modern automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems to provide feedback on language and content in addition to an automated score. However, concerns have been raised with regard to the instructional and assessment value of AWE in writing classrooms. The findings f...

Studies on the use of synchronous text-based computer-mediated communication (SCMC) tasks have mostly focused on how they could be used to facilitate the learning of different aspects of a second language. Recent research from a functional perspective has suggested the need to examine the impact of SCMC tasks on the development of L2 academic liter...

If we were to open up a dictionary and begin reading, it would be obvious that despite our ability to construct meaning from the words on the page, we would not be able to interact with the writing in the same way as we do for other texts. Keywords: CALL; computer mediated communication; language teaching; second language acquisition; teaching me...

The qualitative study reported in this article explored the use of technology for language learning in a third-year French class at a public university in the Midwest of the USA. To address the need for a more holistic study of technology for language learning (Basharina, 2007; Thorne, 2003), an Activity Theory framework was employed to investigate...

The purpose of this study is to examine native-speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) comprehensibility and accentedness and identify the factors that may cause listeners to rate speech in certain ways. Think-aloud or vocalization of the thought processes of each speech rater was used to understand what aspects of speech and pronunciation six ra...