Abstract
This chapter describes the use of a Web-based essay critiquing system and its integration into in a series of composition workshops for a group of secondary school students in Hong Kong. It begins with a review and application of the hybrid learning approach, followed by a description of latent semantic analysis, a methodology for corpus preparation. Then, the distribution computing architecture for essay critiquing system is described. It explicates the way in which the system is integrated with a writing pedagogy implemented in the workshop and the feasibility evaluation result is derived. The positive result confirms the benefits of hybrid learning.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models |
| Subtitle of host publication | Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 393-405 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781605663807 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |