A Meta-Analysis of Web-Based English Instruction in Taiwan

• In Event: Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: Online Learners’ Strategies, Attitudes, and Behaviors

Abstract

In this meta-analysis study, a total of thirty-one studies related to strategy use of students in Taiwan in web-based English context were identified, collected, and analyzed. Three criteria for selecting the appropriate studies are (a) They must have applied the web-based instruction; (b) They must be related to English learning; and (c) They had to provide one of the following data in order to calculate effect size (ES), including means and standard deviation (SD), F values, or t values. The characteristics were divided into three groups; that is, study characteristics, methodological characteristics, and design characteristics. The findings reveal that predicting, summarizing, self-questioning and clarifying, text annotation with picture, and glossing were strategies with higher effect size (ES > 0.920).

Authors

• Mei-Mei Chang, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology

• Mei-Chen Lin, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology

• Takumi Kano, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology