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Mei-Ya Liang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article examines linguaculturally diverse university students' affective translingual practices of using emojis and languages in computer-mediated communication. Research studies have investigated the sociopragmatic uses of emojis from the perspectives of social semiotics, language socialisation, and translingual practices. This study expands…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Computer Mediated Communication, Semiotics, Socialization
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Zhang, Yi – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
The present study investigates the adoption of Japanese by users from a popular Chinese video-sharing website, bilibili.com. Over a two-month period, 5,808 instances of language use that involve Japanese language features were sampled from 28,579 video comments. It was found that features of Japanese were often utilized -- either entirely in…
Descriptors: Japanese, Video Technology, Web Sites, Language Proficiency
Xiaorong Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study examines learners' experiences in the development of written complexities during Discussion Board (DB) assignments in an Advanced university level Chinese class. Discussion Board was chosen as the avenue for written complexity development because it provides learners a supplementary space with additional time and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Wei, Li; Hua, Zhu – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This article discusses a relatively under-explored phenomenon that we call Tranßcripting -- writing, designing and digitally generating new scripts with elements from different scriptal and semiotic systems. The data are drawn from examples of such scripts created by multilingual Chinese users in everyday online social interaction. We analyse the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Semiotics, Written Language
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Paul, Jing Z.; Friginal, Eric – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
This study investigated the effects of Facebook and Twitter on foreign language (Chinese) learners' written production in both short- (10 days) and long-term (50 days) pseudo-experimental settings. Adopting two concepts (i.e. symmetric vs. asymmetric) from matrix theory in social network analysis, we categorized Facebook as a symmetric social…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Second Language Learning, Network Analysis, Sentences
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Kung, Shiao-Chuan – ELT Journal, 2004
This paper describes a project involving EFL learners in synchronous electronic discussions. The output of the students' interactions was analyzed qualitatively to uncover the main linguistic and interactional features. It was observed that the students' discussions contained a large number of spelling, usage, and grammatical errors, an almost…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction