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Clicker-based L2 vocabulary voting treatment via PowerPoint

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Description

An instructional setup in which the teacher projects vocabulary questions created in PowerPoint on a board, students respond by pressing the matching button on hand-held clickers that wirelessly transmit input to a receiver, and statistical results are displayed on the board after polling closes. In this study the Clicker Group voted on questions about 30 low-frequency or off-list words from James and the Giant Peach across five treatments of approximately 30 minutes each over two months, while the Non-Clicker Group answered by hand-raising or orally.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A presentation software such as PowerPoint to create the questions
  • Clicker handsets and a receiver to transmit and collect student responses

Constraints

  • The study used low-frequency or off-list words that students encountered mainly only in the classroom, which the authors say may have limited learnability and motivation

Target Learners

  • Grade 8 secondary ESL learners (age 13-14)

Learning Goals

  • English L2 vocabulary knowledge, assessed through drawing, translation, or explanation

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Sénécal, A.-M., Mezzaluna, V., & Cardoso, W. (2018). Make words click! Learning English vocabulary with clickers. In P. Taalas, J. Jalkanen, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018. Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.852
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title Clicker-based L2 vocabulary voting treatment via PowerPoint
description An instructional setup in which the teacher projects vocabulary questions created in PowerPoint on a board, students respond by pressing the matching button on hand-held clickers that wirelessly transmit input to a re...
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