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Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?

Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?

Glenn Stockwell
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781466618558|ISBN10: 1466618558|EISBN13: 9781466618565
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1855-8.ch005
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Stockwell, Glenn. "Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?." Explorations of Language Teaching and Learning with Computational Assistance, edited by Bin Zou, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 63-74. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1855-8.ch005

APA

Stockwell, G. (2013). Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?. In B. Zou (Ed.), Explorations of Language Teaching and Learning with Computational Assistance (pp. 63-74). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1855-8.ch005

Chicago

Stockwell, Glenn. "Online Approaches to Learning Vocabulary: Teacher-Centred or Learner-Centred?." In Explorations of Language Teaching and Learning with Computational Assistance, edited by Bin Zou, 63-74. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1855-8.ch005

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Abstract

Examples of learning vocabulary through the computer are appearing with increasing regularity in the recent CALL literature. Much of this learning, however, tends to be teacher-centred in that learners often rely on teachers to select the vocabulary items that they are to study. In the current study, pre-intermediate learners of English studying at a university in Japan were divided into two groups: a teacher-centred (TC) group where the learners were provided with online vocabulary learning activities composed of items selected by the teacher and a learner-centred (LC) group where the learners were required to compile their own vocabulary lists which were then entered by the learners themselves into a specially designed online system that would then create the vocabulary learning activities from these items. Data were collected in the form of pre- and post-testing of vocabulary items that appeared in the teaching materials and through questionnaires regarding their perceptions of the system.

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