Teaching with Technology

Although various resources for learning L2 vocabulary have become available on the Internet, we know very little about the effectiveness of these resources.  How helpful are these resources for L2 vocabulary learners?  Are these resources are being used in L2 classrooms?  “Expanding Academic Vocabulary with Interactive On-line Database” is one of the few studies of […]

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As far as Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is concerned, language input is considered to be crucial to L2 learning.  A number of researchers have investigated the various types of L2 input, such as comprehensible input, modified input, and enhanced input.  It is widely accepted that computer technology has a great potential for enhancing language input, […]

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Debra Zahay & Elisa Fredricks  Marketing Education Review, Volume 19, No.1 (Spring 2009)  Although this journal article refers to a Project Based Marketing class, there is no real mention of any specifics to this class outside of the introduction. The result being that this is a very versatile article regarding Podcasting, as it could have […]

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 Andrew Czaplewski Marketing Education Review, Volume 19 No. 1 (Sprint 2009)  This is a short, concise report and “how-to” on automating a grading rubric. I thought it worthwhile to explore as a possible teaching “tool”. After reading I am glad to report that this appears to be a relatively easy and useful application, much unlike […]

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The average native speaker of English has a vocabulary of somewhere between 30,000 and 80,000 words.  Thus, ESL learners who wish to acquire native-like fluency should learn at least 30,000 English words.  In my opinion, it is almost impossible for an ESL learner to match the vocabulary of a native speaker of English.  Japanese college […]

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