A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Electronic Discussion and Foreign Language Learning

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Electronic Discussion and Foreign Language Learning

Examines participation of language students in on-line discussion groups with native speakers of the target language. Examines the threads started by four anglophone students of French when they post messages to a forum on the Web site of the French newspaper "Le Monde." Investigation of t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Language learning & technology 2003, Vol.7 (1), p.71-71
Hauptverfasser: Hanna, Barbara, de Nooy, Juliana
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Case studies
Computer Mediated Communication
Cultural Influences
Educational aspects
Electronic discussion groups
English (Second Language)
Foreign Countries
French
Intercultural communication
Internet newsgroup
Methods
Native Speakers
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Second languages
Student Participation
Study and teaching
Technology application
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Zusammenfassung:Examines participation of language students in on-line discussion groups with native speakers of the target language. Examines the threads started by four anglophone students of French when they post messages to a forum on the Web site of the French newspaper "Le Monde." Investigation of these examples points to the ways in which electronic discussion inflects and is inflected by cultural and generic expectations. (Author/VWL)
ISSN:1094-3501
1094-3501