Author Description

Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances highlights new research and an original framework that brings together foreign language teaching, experiments and testing practices that utilize the most recent and widely used e-learning resources. This comprehensive collection of research will offer linguistic scholars, language teachers, students, and policymakers a better understanding of the importance and influence of e-learning in second language acquisition. Contents include: (1) a Wiki Platform for Language and Intercultural Communication (Minjie Xing, Bin Zou, and Dongshuo Wang); (2) Engendering Interaction, Collaboration, and Reflection in the Design of Online Assessment in Language Learning: a Reflection from the Course Designers (Yuping Wang and Nian-Shing Chen); (3) Practising Language Interaction via Social Networking Sites: The Expert Student's Perspective on Personalized Language Learning (Marina Orsini-Jones, Billy Brick, and Laura Pibworth); (4) Scaffolding Role of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment on Collaboration and Academic Literacy: Possibilities and Challenges (Ke Zhao); (5) Language Economy in Computer-Mediated Communication: Learner Autonomy in a Community of Practice (Jonathan R. White); (6) Facebook Comparison Research: Faculty and Student Perceptions of Social Media for Foreign Language Courses (Joseph M. Terantino); (7) Learner Engagement in Computer-Mediated Chinese Learning (Zhiyan Guo and Zhizhuo Guo); (8) Students in the New Millennium: How Much do We Know about Them? (Jianxiong Wu); (9) Using a Virtual Learning Environment to Promote Autonomous Language Learning for Chinese Students (Eoin Jordan and Mark Coyle); (10) Developing and Implementing an Online Chinese Program: a Case Study (Mingyu Sun, Yea-Fen Chen, and Andrew Olson); (11) Design of Language Learning Software (Vehbi Turel and Peter McKenna); (12) Getting Smart about Split Attention (Rae Lynne Mancilla); (13) Computer-Bas