English Lexical Tournaments for Computer Science Students in Internationalized mLearning Contexts

我们开发了WikiGloss作为移动设备的阅读工具，以帮助计算机科学工程专业的学生阅读复杂的技术文本。WikGloss的原型允许学生输入一个文档，并添加与阅读主题密切相关的维基百科条目的链接。在平板电脑上，在阅读中选择的文本上方会出现一个注释，并提供语义上下文来支持学生读者的理解。在使用移动设备时，将WikiGloss工具与阅读文本相结合，避免了在文本和其他应用程序（如字典）之间切换以搜索内容。总之，WikiGloss通过阅读文本中的词汇和定义，以及通过维基文本的超链接，为英语学习者提供概念和语法练习。因此，它很可能使英语读者不仅在计算机工程方面受益，而且在其他高级学科领域也受益。

We developed WikiGloss as a reading gloss tool for mobile devices to assist computer science engineering students to read complex technical texts. WikGloss has been prototyped to allow students to input a document and augment it with links to Wikipedia entries that are closely related to the main topic of the reading. On the tablet, a gloss rises above the selected text in a reading and provides semantic context to support the student reader's understanding. While using mobile devices, combining the WikiGloss tool with the reading text avoids having to switch between the text and other applications to search content, such as dictionaries. In conclusion, WikiGloss provides EFL learners with conceptual and grammatical practice through reading vocabulary items and definitions within the text, but also by hyperlinking through wikified text. As such, it is likely to benefit EFL readers not only in computer engineering, but in other advanced subject areas as well.