Themes in Science and Technology Education

THEMES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION publishes original research papers from throughout the world dealing with science education, environmental education, computer science education, ICT in education and e-learning. It serves as a medium for communication and interaction between the above scientific communities and bridges the gap between research and practice providing information, ideas and opinions.
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Vol 3, No 1-2 (2010): Special Issue on ICT in language learning

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editors' Notes PDF
George R. S. Weir, Shin’ichiro Ishikawa, Athanassios Jimoyiannis pp. 5-8

Information retrieval for education: making search engines language aware PDF
Niels Ott, Detmar Meurers pp. 9-30

A software application for assessing readability in the Japanese EFL context PDF
Toshiaki Ozasa, George R. S. Weir, Masayasu Fukui pp. 31-44

The use of weblog in language learning: motivation of second language learners in reading classroom PDF
Ahmad Nasaruddin Sulaiman, Asiah Kassim pp. 45-61

Language learning in a wiki: Student contributions in a web based learning environment PDF
Linda Bradley, Berner Lindström, Hans Rystedt, Sylvi Vigmo pp. 63-80

A tagger for teaching purposes PDF
Paul Bennett pp. 81-92

Word spelling assessment using ICT: The effect of presentation modality PDF
Menelaos Sarris, Chris Panagiotakopoulos pp. 93-118

An e-project-based approach to ESP learning in an ICT curriculum in higher education PDF
Irene Mamakou, Maria Grigoriadou pp. 119-137

A corpus-based study on Asian learners’ use of English linking adverbials PDF
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa pp. 139-157

A new parallel corpus approach to Japanese learners’ English, using their corrected essays PDF
Nozomi Miki pp. 159-180

The use of epistemic markers as a means of hedging and boosting in the discourse of L1 and L2 speakers of Modern Greek: A corpus-based study in informal letter-writing PDF
Lia Efstathiadi pp. 181-206

A corpus-based study on images of family members PDF
Yuka Ishikawa pp. 207-221

Second language writing classification system based on word-alignment distribution PDF
Katsunori Kotani, Takehiko Yoshimi pp. 223-238



ISSN: 1792-8788