Motivating Students to Learn a Programming Language: Applying a Second Language Acquisition Approach in a Blended Learning Environment

Lulu Sun; Christina Frederick; Caroline Liron; Li Ding; Lei Gu; Andrew Calvin Griggs; Paula Sanjuan Espejo

Motivating Students to Learn a Programming Language: Applying a Second Language Acquisition Approach in a Blended Learning Environment

Lulu Sun, Christina Frederick, Caroline Liron, Li Ding, Lei Gu, Andrew Calvin Griggs, Paula Sanjuan Espejo

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Abstract

Learning a programming language typically involves acquisition of new vocabulary, punctuation, and grammatical structures to communicate with a computer. In other words, learning a programming language is like learning a human language. A recent study showed that programmers use language regions of the brain when understanding source code and found little activation in other regions of the brain devoted to mathematical thinking. Even though programming code involved mathematical operations, conditionals, and loop iterations, researchers found that programming had less in common with mathematics and more in common with human language.

Original language	American English
Journal	Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
State	Published - Jun 1 2018

Keywords

second language acquisition
Blended Learning
Teaching Strategies

Disciplines

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Methods
Online and Distance Education

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