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Saeed, Murad Abdu; Ghazali, Kamila – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
The current paper reports an empirical study of asynchronous online group review of argumentative essays among nine English as foreign language (EFL) Arab university learners joining English in their first, second, and third years at the institution. In investigating online interactions, commenting patterns, and how the students facilitate text…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
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Yang, Se Jeong – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
The aim of this study was to gain insights into how language learners perceive two online interactional contexts and how these perceptions impact the learners' participation in eTandem learning. This study incorporated pair work with group discussion as interactional contexts, connecting Korean language learners with English language learners.…
Descriptors: Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Group Discussion
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Hsieh, Pei-Yin – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
Many college students who study English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are less-proficient readers as they have few opportunities to negotiate their perspectives for creating meaning through peer questioning in onsite instruction. This study reports on using online peer questioning to enhance less-proficient college students' negotiation of meaning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), College Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency
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Thorne, Steven L. – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
In this article I revisit the cultures-of-use conceptual framework--that technologies, as forms and processes comprising human culture, mediate and assume variable meanings, values, and conventionalized functions for different communities (Thorne, 2003). I trace the antecedent arc of investigation and serendipitous encounters that led to the 2003…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Environment, Sociocultural Patterns
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Helm, Francesca; Guth, Sarah; Farrah, Mohammed – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This qualitative study explores the impact of potential linguistic, technical and educational hegemonies on the learning outcomes for English language students in Hebron, Palestine, and Padova, Italy, who were involved in the Soliya Connect Program, a telecollaboration project developed to explore critical issues that divide the "West"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Arabs, Muslims