TY - JOUR
T1 - Computer-assisted foreign language learning
T2 - Effects of text, context, and gender on listening comprehension and motivation
AU - Jakobsdóttir, Solveig
AU - Hooper, Simon
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1995/12
Y1 - 1995/12
N2 - A computer-based foreign language lesson was developed to study the effects of text, context, and gender on listening comprehension and motivation. A total of 109 fifth grade students responded to spoken commands, with text and a story absent or present. Presenting spoken language with text appeared to assist the development of listening skills. When text was present, students made fewer errors on the subsequent comprehension test and gave higher relevance and confidence motivation ratings than when text was absent. Girls demonstrated higher achievement than did boys and rated the lesson higher, indicating that girls tend to like different kinds of software than do boys. An interaction between context and gender regarding achievement was significant: Girls, but not boys, made fewer errors after a story-embedded lesson.
AB - A computer-based foreign language lesson was developed to study the effects of text, context, and gender on listening comprehension and motivation. A total of 109 fifth grade students responded to spoken commands, with text and a story absent or present. Presenting spoken language with text appeared to assist the development of listening skills. When text was present, students made fewer errors on the subsequent comprehension test and gave higher relevance and confidence motivation ratings than when text was absent. Girls demonstrated higher achievement than did boys and rated the lesson higher, indicating that girls tend to like different kinds of software than do boys. An interaction between context and gender regarding achievement was significant: Girls, but not boys, made fewer errors after a story-embedded lesson.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=26744438019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=26744438019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/BF02300490
DO - 10.1007/BF02300490
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:26744438019
SN - 1042-1629
VL - 43
SP - 43
EP - 59
JO - Educational Technology Research and Development
JF - Educational Technology Research and Development
IS - 4
ER -