Abstract

ESL(English as a Second Language) learning experiments were carried out at an early engineering educational college using smart phones linked with a brainwave sensor. The questioning difficult and easy words alternatively in every four words, confirmed a difference between the mental condition working on difficult and easy words. Japanese and American students show a different dependence of the correct answer ratio on the parts of speech. Our analysis on the attention and the meditation data unveiled that Japanese students have a tendency to decrease the attention when they are working on nouns. On the other hand, no difference depending on the parts of speech was found in American students' data. These results showed a good agreement with the fact that native students did not have any significant difference depending on the parts of speech in terms of the correct answer ratio. Those are attributed to their cognitive loads to read the definition depending on the parts of speech.

Citation

Itakura, S., Kira, T., Suehiro, S. & Sato, T. (2013). A Study on ESL Learning in Early Engineering Education using Smart Phones linked with Brainwave Sensor. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2013--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 798-804). Las Vegas, NV, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 5, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/114940/.

© 2013 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• Evaluation