Research on Developing a Web-database Application for Helping EFL Students to Improve Their Reading Ability for Specialized Books Written in English.

这项研究涉及开发一个名为CARET的网络数据库应用程序，这是一个“资源辅助阅读丰富文本”的CALL程序。CARET的总体目标是利用协作式英语学习模式，最大限度地提高计算机课堂的有效性。近年来，计算机和互联网为英语教学提供了许多新的工具和可能性；然而，大学call程序开发的经验（特别是我们之前为加速阅读理解而设计的Web-VOCAL程序）揭示了两个显著的局限性：学生很难在课堂教学环境之外的电脑上管理英语学习，而且英语阅读学习往往是一项孤独、孤立的任务，几乎没有同伴的支持。考虑到这些因素，CARET利用PUP和MySq1编程语言的组合作为开发基础，（在世界各地的服务器上流行）被设计为：2)利用实时学生协作作为课堂学习的一种手段，通过使用3)在计算机辅助教室中使用分布式基于服务器的数据库，4)学生可以在团队中工作，使用集成到程序中的在线工具来获取目标学术语言的词汇和用法，从而提高词汇习得和对真实文本的理解速度。6)教师可以下载并分析课文，评分难度和词汇类型。这个程序会记录学生的个人贡献，这样学生的成绩就可以记录下来。考虑到丰富文本作品的最终形式，学生将创建通过词法翻译和注释丰富的浏览器可加载文本，并使用新词汇的例句；词定义;以及来自各种语料库的用法示例。完成的文本可以在以后的课堂上使用，使现在的学生成为未来学生的资源，作为一个永久的双语教材数据库的开发-一个适合学生需求和能力的资源。少

This research concerns developing a web-database application called CARET, a "Collaborative Resource-Assisted Reading of Enriched Texts" CALL program. The overall goal of CARET is to maximize the effectiveness of the computer-based classroom, utilizing the model of collaborative EFL learning. In recent years, computers and the Internet have given EFL educators many new tools and possibilities for language teaching; however, experience with university CALL-program development (particularly our previously built Web-VOCAL program designed for accelerated reading comprehension), has revealed two significant limitations: students have difficulty managing EFL study on computers outside the classroom teaching environment, and EFL reading study tends to be a lonely, isolate task, with little peer support With these factors in mind, CARET, which utilizes a combination of PUP and MySq1 programming languages as a development base, (prevalent on servers worldwide) has been designed to: 1) accelera … More te the rate of lexical acquisition and comprehension of authentic texts, by 2) utilizing real-time student collaboration as a means of classroom study through the use of 3) a distributed server-based database in the computer-aided classroom, where 4) students can work in teams to source vocabulary and usage of the target academic language using 5) online tools integrated into the program. 6) Teachers can download and analyze texts, grading for difficulty and vocabulary types. The program 7) keeps track of individual contributions, so that work can be documented for 8) student grading. Considering the final form of enriched text works, students will have created browser-loadable texts enriched by lexemic translation and annotation, with example sentences using the new vocabulary; word definitions; and usage examples derived from various corpora. Completed texts can be used in future classes, so that present students become a resource for future students, as a permanent database of bilingual educational materials is developed-a resource tailored to student needs and ability. Less