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An Activity Theory Perspective on Student-Reported Contradictions in International Telecollaboration
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Basharina, Olga K. – Language Learning & Technology, 2007
This process-oriented study focuses on contradictions that emerged in a WebCT bulletin board collaboration among English learners from Japan, Mexico and Russia, and explains them from the perspective of activity theory (Leont'ev, 1978, 1981; Engestrom, 1987, 1999). The study identified a) two "intra-cultural" contradictions--to post or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology