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Lee, Helen; Hampel, Regine – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
The theorization of how multimodal learning intersects with online teaching environments has emerged as a key research area in relationship to the creation of opportunities for L2 online interaction. However, there are few studies which have examined how cross-cultural dyads harness and orchestrate semiotic resources across mobile technologies…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Klimnova, Liudmila – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Drawing on past and current scholarship on digitally mediated communication in language learning, this review article examines the evolution of identity research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) from the 1990s to the present day. The article offers an in-depth overview of critical issues and topics associated with language learner…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Baralt, Melissa; Gómez, José Morcillo – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
Technology-mediated task-based language teaching is the merger between technology and task-based language teaching (TBLT; González-Lloret & Ortega, 2014) and is arguably now an imperative for language education. As language classrooms are being redefined, training for how to set learners up to successfully do tasks online must be part of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teacher Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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Satar, H. Muge; Akcan, Sumru – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
Participation in online communities is an increasing need for future language teachers and their professional development. Through such participation, they can experience and develop an awareness of the behaviors required to facilitate their future learners' participation in online learning. This article investigates participation, interaction…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Lina – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
This study investigated the affordances for autonomous learning in a fully online learning environment involving the implementation of task-based instruction in conjunction with Web 2.0 technologies. To that end, four-skill-integrated tasks and digital tools were incorporated into the coursework. Data were collected using midterm reflections,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Task Analysis, Online Courses, Second Language Learning
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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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Granena, Gisela – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
Interaction is a necessary condition for second language (L2) learning (Long, 1980, 1996). Research in computer-mediated communication has shown that interaction opportunities make learners pay attention to form in a variety of ways that promote L2 learning. This research has mostly investigated text-based rather than voice-based interaction. The…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Second Language Learning
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Guichon, Nicolas – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This article proposes a methodology to create a multimodal corpus that can be shared with a group of researchers in order to analyze synchronous online pedagogical interactions. Epistemological aspects involved in studying online interactions from a multimodal and semiotic perspective are addressed. Then, issues and challenges raised by corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Wu, Heping; Gao, Junde; Zhang, Weimin – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
The present study examines the professional growth of three Chinese English teachers by analyzing their interactional patterns and their social and cognitive presence in an online community. The data from social network analysis (SNA) and content analysis revealed that computer-mediated communication (CMC) created new opportunities for teachers to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Synchronous Communication
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Liaw, Meei-Ling – Language Learning & Technology, 2006
This study presents findings on the efficacy of an online learning environment developed to foster EFL students' intercultural competence via reading articles on topics of their own culture and communicating their responses with speakers of another culture. The project offered opportunities for EFL students to use their own societal and cultural…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Educational Environment
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Volle, Lisa M. – Language Learning & Technology, 2005
This study investigated the acquisition of speaking skills in an online distance education course of 19 first semester Spanish learners. The possibility of oral development in a strictly online course was examined based on students' pronunciation production in two types of recorded speaking activities and in two real-time conversations. Students…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Distance Education, Online Courses, Articulation (Speech)
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Reeder, Kenneth; Macfadyen, Leah P.; Roche, Jorg; Chase, Mackie – Language Learning & Technology, 2004
In this paper we report findings of a multidisciplinary study of online participation by culturally diverse participants in a distance adult education course offered in Canada and examine in detail three of the study's findings. First, we explore both the historical and cultural origins of "cyberculture values" as manifested in our…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Interaction, Foreign Countries, Online Courses