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Reinhardt, Jonathon; Zander, Victoria – CALICO Journal, 2011
This ongoing project seeks to investigate the impact, inside and outside of class, of instruction focused on developing learner awareness of social-networking site (SNS) use in an American Intensive English Program (IEP). With language socialization as an interpretative framework (Duff, in press; Ochs, 1988; Watson-Gegeo, 2004), the project uses a…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Networks
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Wilcox, Kristen Campbell – CALICO Journal, 2009
This action-research project was designed to assess how the use of video as a central instructional component impacts features of cross-cultural competence among adult ESL students. The study was conducted in a college-level intensive English language program in North America. Findings suggest that students' deeply embedded beliefs and values…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness, Action Research, Video Technology