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Nowadays, university students are evaluatedusing paper-and-pencil tests in addition to e-tests. Ahundred university graduate and undergraduate studentsin a private university in Lebanon were surveyed to studytheir attitudes towards taking e-tests in comparison totaking paper-and-pencil tests. The results of this casestudy showed that the majority of the students felt lessanxious while taking e-tests,...
In this paper we report on the operation and results of a pilot trial on the use of Science-Fiction Prototyping (SFP) as a means to motivate students to engage with STEM and language learning courses. In particular we describe two case studies. The first was conducted in Shijiazhuang University, China, and involved approximately 102 students following a course aimed at improving their English language...
In this article, I reflect on four dimensions of assessing the significance of research in the computers and composition field: tradition, method, theory, and originality. Considering these four key concepts as topoi will help our community define, explain, and predict how future research will significantly contribute to teaching wisely and to writing well with technology.
For most of its history, modern linguistics viewed writing as a poor relation to speech, at best a tool facilitating the study of historical change and documenting contemporary spoken language. Only in the last few decades has written language been accepted as an object of study in its own right, thanks to the efforts of a variety of classicists, anthropologists, historians, and linguists.One of those...
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