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Direct linkPaul Richards – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This study experimentally investigated the effectiveness of feedback on learner refusals in a computer-simulated academic advising session. Ninety participants were assigned to one of three conditions: implicit feedback, explicit feedback, and comparison group. Oral and written discourse completion tasks (DCTs) were administered in a pretest…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Simulation, Academic Advising, Pretests Posttests
Nishio, Tomoe; Nakatsugawa, Masanobu – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
The concept of successful participation is context-dependent. Learners have different definitions, which are subject to potential tension in the manner of participation that affects other aspects of the interaction. Drawing on activity theory (Vygotsky, 1987), the present study analyzes tensions that emerged during a six-week telecollaborative…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, International Educational Exchange, Teleconferencing, Student Attitudes
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
An Activity Theory Perspective on Student-Reported Contradictions in International Telecollaboration
Basharina, Olga K. – Language Learning & Technology, 2007
This process-oriented study focuses on contradictions that emerged in a WebCT bulletin board collaboration among English learners from Japan, Mexico and Russia, and explains them from the perspective of activity theory (Leont'ev, 1978, 1981; Engestrom, 1987, 1999). The study identified a) two "intra-cultural" contradictions--to post or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Electronic Discussion and Foreign Language Learning.
Peer reviewedHanna, Barbara; de Nooy, Juliana – Language Learning & Technology, 2003
Examines participation of language students in on-line discussion groups with native speakers of the target language. Examines the threads started by four anglophone students of French when they post messages to a forum on the Web site of the French newspaper "Le Monde." Investigation of these examples points to the ways in which electronic…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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
