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Åsa Mäkitalo, Editor; Todd E. Nicewonger, Editor; Mark Elam, Editor – New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction, 2019
"Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry" examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning and offers insights for both analysing and intervening in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Processes, Information Technology, Sociocultural Patterns
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Fearn, Lesley June – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is crucial in most secondary schools within the EU and many other schools worldwide. Some teachers are integrating Online Community Projects (OCPs) into their curricula to provide a means of communication that motivates learning and incites learner-centred methods. This collaborative Action Research study…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Vigmo, Sylvi; Bowen, Rhonwen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
This case study explores how Swedish upper secondary students communicate in English as part of second language learning, in a blog shared with Thai students. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective on learning, the notions of Goffman's "frame shifting" and Bakhtin's concept of "carnival" are employed to analyse two specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
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Dahlberg, Giulia Messina; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The study presented in this article explores the ways in which discursive-technologies shape interaction in "digitally-mediated" educational settings in terms of affordances and constraints for the participants. Our multi-scale sociocultural-dialogical analysis of the interactional order in the online sessions of an "Italian for…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Grammar, Literacy, Introductory Courses
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Messina Dahlberg, Giulia; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
The use of digital tools like computers and tablets in institutional learning arenas give rise to forms of flexibility where time and space boundaries become diffuse. Online learning sites are understood as being crucial today, especially in large parts of the Global North, where anyone anywhere potentially can become a student and have access to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Language Variation, Computer Mediated Communication
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Fredriksson, Christine – Research-publishing.net, 2012
In this paper I will show the preliminary findings from my study of the discourse in synchronous written chats performed by students who study modern German literature within their first term of German studies. The focus of the study is on learning strategies and discourse strategies and how the Swedish learners make use of them when chatting with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Discourse Analysis