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This paper shows the functionality of an online web-based system to facilitate English collocation learning via videos along with their captions. As videos can be attractive and fun materials for L2 learners who are learning English as a foreign language, this system is hopefully able to support them to be exposed to collocations by watching videos especially in terms of drama types. After recognizing collocations used in drama videos, L2 learners can look for further explanations and instances via an online concordancer integrated into this learning system. There were also functions including knowledge sharing, online assessment, and learning portfolio. In order to detect the usefulness and usability of the proposed system, we initially identified a small sum of the users’ perception as a pilot test. This preliminary result exhibited that these participants agreed the proposed system could help them learn English collocations.
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This study is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (Contract Number: MOST 107-2511-H-035-004-MY2).
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Hong, ZW., Tsai, MH.M., Shen, WW., Lin, JM., Su, YH. (2019). A System to Support the Learning of English Collocations via Video Materials: A Preliminary Study. In: Rønningsbakk, L., Wu, TT., Sandnes, F., Huang, YM. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11937. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35343-8_7
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