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• This article discusses the potential that color has on eliciting emotions or behaviors and what implications this has in website design.

Cyr, D., Head, M., & Larios, H. (2010). Colour appeal in website design within and across cultures: A multi-method evaluation. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, (68), 1-21. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from ScienceDirect.

 

• This article discusses the idea of acknowledging computer coding as a foreign language credit in schools.

Berdan, S. (2014, May 12). Coding Can’t and Shouldn’t Replace Foreign Language Requirements. New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/05/12/teaching-code-in-the-classroom/coding-cant-and-shouldnt-replace-foreign-language-requirements

 

• This book reports on a detailed ethnographic study of Indonesian as a Foreign Language in classrooms at two consecutive levels of schooling in Australia.

Hill, Kathryn (2012). Classroom-Based Assessment in the School Foreign Language Classroom. Retrieved from http://www.eblib.com

 

• This article discusses the importance of keeping French on university curriculums because of its place as one of the top languages of the 21st century.

Hussey, A. (2011, February 5). French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles. The Guardian. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/06/french-studies-francophiles-universities

 

• This is a content analysis of three U.S. Internet newspapers that shows that they focus more on providing textual information than graphic information, and how large graphics only appear on the homepage. 

Li, X. (1998). Web Page Design and Graphic Use of Three U.S. Newspapers. J&MC Quarterly, 75(2), 353-365. Retrieved 2014.

 

• This paper addresses new and significant research issues in web page design in relation to the use of graphics.

Lin, Y., Yeh, C., & Wei, C. (2013). How will the use of graphics affect visual aesthetics? A user-centered approach for web page design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, (71), 217-227. Retrieved September 18, 2014, from ScienceDirect.

 

• This article discussed the implications of flipping the foreign language classroom. It discusses the current trend of making the classroom student-centered.

Muldrow, K. (2013, November 1). A New Approach to Language Instruction - Flipping the Classroom. The Language Educator, 28-31.

 

• This article discusses the challenging task that foreign language teachers face on assessing the which language-learning software and websites would be most effective in the classroom.

Rifkin, B. (2003, January 1). Criteria for the Assessment of Foreign Language Instructional Software and Web Sites. Association of Departments of Foreign Languages.

 

• This study addresses the fact that users have clear expectations of where web objects are located on a web page. It looks into the relationship between location typicality and efficiency in finding target web objects in online shops, newspapers and company web pages. 

Roth, S., Tuch, A., Mekler, E., Bargas-Avila, J., & Opwis, K. (2013). Location matters, especially for non-salient features - An eye-tracking study on the effects of web object placement on different types of websites. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, (71), 228-235. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from ScienceDirect.

 

• The authors of this paper research the flow of cognitive processes during website browsing. It looks at the meaning of website content and its outward form and how that affects user performance.

Tan, G., & Kwok Kee, W. (2006). An Empirical Study of Web Browsing Behaviour: Towards an Effective Website Design. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 5, 261-271. Retrieved January 1, 2014, from ScienceDirect.