What do meta-analyses tell us about CALL effectiveness?

ReCALL ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
USCHI FELIX
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
The Past ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Meta Analyses

A great deal of research has been carried out over the past two decades related to the effectiveness of computer-assisted teaching and learning. This large body of work, however, has not produced unequivocal findings, especially in the area of CALL. Our study takes a systematic look at what dedicated meta-research since 1991 might have contributed to this controversial field. Data was gathered from several hundred studies including ca 20,000 subjects. The paper highlights the benefits and limitations associated with this type of research, synthesizes findings and recommends models and strategies for future research in the context of an agreed research agenda. Our synthesis suggests consistent positive findings related to L1 spelling, writing and reading. While there is some support for this related to CALL per se, much work needs to be done before we might reach the levels of confidence enjoyed by some of the findings reported here.

Vocabulary and Computer Technology: A Commentary on Four Studies for JALT Vocabulary SIG

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Nakata ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Learning ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Question Format

Four papers by Clint Denison and Imogen Custance, Louis Lafleur, James Rogers, and Andrew Obermeier will be presented at the Eighth Annual JALT Vocabulary SIG Symposium in Tokyo, Japan, on September 20, 2020. The topics covered in the four papers are vocabulary learning using online student-created vocabulary lists, development of a flashcard program that manipulates the review schedule and question format, creation of a list of multi-word units based on corpora, and examination of the acquisition of declarative and tacit vocabulary knowledge from deliberate computer-assisted learning. This commentary briefly summarizes each study and offers suggestions for future research. All of the four studies exhibit how computer technology can be used to facilitate vocabulary research, teaching, and learning.

Skin as a Source of Nosocomial Infection: Directions for Future Research

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 113-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis G. Maki
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Nosocomial Infection ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trials ◽  
Nosocomial Pathogens ◽  
The Past ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Per Se

Whereas infections of the skin per se comprise only a fraction of all institutionally-acquired infections, the skin has become one of the most important reservoirs of nosocomial pathogens in the hospital. Professor Noble has provided a scholarly review of the increasing importance of the major constituents of the cutaneous microflora as nosocomial pathogens and what we know of their epidemiology. Unfortunately, the empiricism and limited scientific data which underlie essential infection control measures in this area, particularly in regard to cutaneous antisepsis and handwashing, is almost incongruous in an era in which controlled clinical trials have dominated most other areas of medicine. The numerous outbreaks traced to contaminated antiseptics and disinfectants over the past two decades, stand as mute testimony to the inadequate investigative attention this area has received.

Economic Sanctions in Flux: Enduring Challenges, New Policies, and Defining the Future Research Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-477
Author(s):  
Bryan R Early ◽  
Menevis Cilizoglu
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Policies

Abstract Policymakers employ economic sanctions to deal with a wide range of international challenges, making them an indispensable foreign policy tool. While scholarship on sanctions has tended to focus on the factors affecting their success, newer research programs have emerged that explore the reasons for why sanctions are threatened and initiated, the ways they are designed and enforced, and their consequences. This scholarship has yielded a wealth of new insights into how economic sanctions work, but most of those insights are based on sanctions observations from the 20th Century. The ways that policymakers employ sanctions have fundamentally changed over the past two decades, though, raising concerns about whether historically derived insights are still relevant to contemporary sanctions policies. In this forum, the contributors discuss the scholarly and policy-relevant insights of existing research on sanctions and then explore what gaps remain in our knowledge and new trends in sanctions policymaking. This forum will inform readers on the state of the art in sanctions research and propose avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Vangelis Souitaris ◽  
Marc Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Organizational Emergence ◽  
Founding Team

Creating new ventures is one of the most central topics to entrepreneurship and is a critical step from which many theories of management, organizational behavior, and strategic management build. Therefore, this review and proposed research agenda are relevant to not only entrepreneurship scholars but also other management scholars who wish to challenge some of the implicit assumptions of their current streams of research and extend the boundaries of their current theories to earlier in the organization’s life. Given that the last systematic review of the topic was published 16 years ago, and that the topic has evolved rapidly over this time, an overview and research outlook are long overdue. From our review, we inductively generated 10 subtopics: (a) lead founder, (b) founding team, (c) social relationships, (d) cognitions, (e) emergent organizing, (f) new-venture strategy, (g) organizational emergence, (h) new-venture legitimacy, (i) founder exit, and (j) entrepreneurial environment. These subtopics are then organized into three major stages of the entrepreneurial process: co-creating, organizing, and performing. Together, the framework provides a cohesive story of the past and a road map for future research on creating new ventures, focusing on the links connecting these subtopics.

Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) in Language Teaching and Learning

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Otto
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Programmed Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

Many language teachers have had sporadic exposure to applied linguistics, limited experience with programmed learning/individualized instruction, and an incomplete understanding of ways in which educational technology can significantly augment the quality of the teaching–learning process. what is the process. what is the probability that administrators, teacher educator, materials developers, teachers, and students will appreciate and accept CAI as an approach that seeks to combine these three fields meaningfully? The propose of this discussion is to examine CAI is terms of key definitions, observations, concerns, developments, and contributions that have achieved significance during the 1979–80 academic year in the area of language teaching and learning. Implications and a challenge for future research studies will also be listed.

ESL/EFL Instructors’ Perceptions of the Importance of Computer-assisted Reading in L2 Reading Instruction

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 1753
Author(s):  
Khalid Al-Seghayer
Keyword(s):  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Electronic Text ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
P Values ◽  
Assisted Reading

English instructors’ perceptions of computer-assisted reading (CAR) influence their tendency to integrate it in the L2 reading classroom. Accordingly, this study assessed English instructors’ perceptions of the importance of electronic text in L2 reading and their general attitudes about the role and effectiveness of computers in teaching ESL/EFL. To this end, 70 ESL/EFL instructors at multiple universities responded to a two-part survey containing 34 items and open-ended questions about the respondents’ general attitudes about computers in language teaching and learning, and the importance of computer-assisted L2 reading instruction specifically. The researcher performed both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses on the data, including means and standard deviations, as well as paired t-tests and bootstrapped p-values. The results indicated that the participants recognized the importance of CAR in improving the quality of L2 reading instruction and developing learners’ reading skills. The implications of the study are discussed, and potential areas of future research are suggested.

scholarly journals Posing the million dollar question: What happens after graduation?

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison J. Head
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
And Training ◽  
Literacy Research

This paper reflects on the increase of information literacy research about the workplace and lifelong learning during the past 10 years. Librarians have long held that lifelong learning is the goal of information literacy instruction and training, but until the last decade, there has been a paucity of research about the information-seeking behaviour of students after they graduate. The origins and drivers of this shift in the research agenda are examined, drawing on US research studies by Project Information Literacy (PIL), and related research from around the world. Key takeaways from this body of work are discussed in addition to the implications findings have for academic librarians teaching and working with university students. Directions for future research are identified and discussed.

Review of Perfectionism Research From 1990 to 2019 Utilizing a Text-Mining Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 108926802110188
Author(s):  
Hanna Suh ◽  
Seoyoung Kim ◽  
Dong-gwi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Personality Characteristic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Meta Analyses

Perfectionism is a personality characteristic that has been explored for its implications in mental health; reviews and meta-analyses were conducted to synthesize research findings. This study systemically synthesizes the perfectionism literature using a text-mining approach. Co-word analysis and Dirichlet Multinomial Regression topic modeling were performed on a total of 1,529 perfectionism abstracts published from 1990 to 2019. Analysis revealed that perfectionism research is closely connected with “disorder,” with “symptom” being the most frequently addressed issue. Topic-modeling results found a total of 15 topics represented perfectionism research of the past three decades. Most articles were published in psychology journals, with social and clinical psychology subdisciplines publishing perfectionism articles most frequently. There were overlaps in research topics by journal subdisciplines, while differences were also observed. This study provides a panoramic view of perfectionism literature and highlights frequently and infrequently explored areas that could be considered in future research endeavors.

Nonfamily Members in Family Firms: A Review and Future Research Agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Tabor ◽  
James J. Chrisman ◽  
Kristen Madison ◽  
James M. Vardaman
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

The study of the roles, impact, and challenges associated with nonfamily members in family firms has generated considerable attention in the literature. To gain an appreciation of this body of knowledge, we systematically review 82 articles on nonfamily members in family firms that were published in 34 journals over the past three decades. We synthesize the literature according to three broad, yet overlapping themes: preemployment considerations, employment considerations, and outcomes of nonfamily employment. We then offer a future research agenda that integrates these themes to guide the advancement of knowledge on nonfamily members in family firms.

scholarly journals Female Volunteer Coaches in Community Sport: A Scoping Review and Research Agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley Baxter ◽  
Russell Hoye ◽  
Pam Kappelides
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Female Volunteer ◽  
Retention Performance ◽  
Community Sport ◽  
The Past ◽  
Volunteer Coaches ◽  
Sport Coaches

Over the past two decades there has been an increase in female sport participation in countries around the world, however, this has not been matched with an increase in the number of females volunteering to coach at the community level of sport. This paper uses a scoping review methodology to synthesize and analyze the extant research published on female volunteer community sport coaches, to identify gaps in the existing literature, and to provide directions for future research. It identifies a general lack of reported research on female volunteer coaches within community levels of sport and reports that existing research has focused on five themes: female volunteer coach motives, barriers, values, supports, and retention. The paper proposes a research agenda focused on seven key themes: policy and governance, coaching pathways, recruitment, retention, performance, stress and wellbeing, and support, as well as suggestions for research methods to explore these themes.

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