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Harris, Judith B. – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1994
Reports results from "Characters Online" a telecommunications in education project. Participating college students impersonated characters in children's books in electronic mail communications over the Internet with elementary school students reading the equivalent books. Both groups engaged frequently in informal conversation and rarely used…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Computer Mediated Communication

Chapman, David – On-Call, 1997
Investigates the effect of oral and electronic media on interaction patterns by learners of Japanese as a second language. The framework for the analysis of learner is speech act theory, which provides a richly developed set of descriptive categories by which to examine interactional processes. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis