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When Is It Appropriate to Talk? Managing Overlapping Talk in Multi-Participant Voice-Based Chat Rooms
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Jenks, Christopher Joseph – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
There has been extensive reporting on the interactional characteristics of multi-participant text-based chat rooms. In these chat rooms there are several students typing at the same time, often on more than one topic. As a result, it is not uncommon to see multiple overlapping utterances. Despite these communicative challenges, research suggests…
Descriptors: Cues, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Teleconferencing