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Peer reviewedSanaoui, Razika; Lapkin, Sharon – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Acknowledging that students learning a second language need opportunities for extended spoken and written interactions with native speakers, this paper describes instructional computer networking that links grade 12 Anglophone students of French in Toronto with native French-speaking peers in Montreal. Focus is on writing skills. (25 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Curriculum Development
Cohen, Moshe; Riel, Margaret – 1986
A study examined the effect of a computer network which was designed to create a functional learning environment to engage students in writing as a communicative act with a real audience. Subjects, 44 seventh-grade Israeli students, wrote an essay as part of their regular midterm examination and, a week later, wrote another essay for their peers,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textHunt, Russell A. – 1992
Collaboration in writing is not confined to conventional multiple authorship and peer editing, but extends across the text to include its readers. Strong support for language development comes from dialogic situations in which student writing is created as a response to some other utterance, and yet classrooms rarely support such situations. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College English, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning
Roskams, Tim – 1998
Issues in teaching English academic writing in a networked classroom are discussed, particularly in the Asian context. Students (n=74) in four introductory classes in English academic writing in a Hong Kong university were surveyed concerning the usefulness of the networked writing laboratory to improve writing and the usefulness of their peers'…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Classrooms
Schmitt, Lothar M.; Christianson, Kiel T. – 1999
Pedagogical features and implementation of a UNIX-based management system (UNIEM) designed to support the instructor in teaching English as a second language using a network of workstations are described. The application discussed here is for teaching English composition to students at the University of Aizu (Japan). UNIEM is constructed to assist…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Miyao, Mariko – 1996
A project using on-campus electronic mail (e-mail) to teach communicative writing in English as a Second Language to Japanese junior college students is described. The project had three stages: (1) planning; (2) piloting with a small group of students; and (3) implementation in three large classes (n=55, 28, 36). The aim was to help students write…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Literacy
Wagner, Daniel A.; Hopey, Christopher – 1998
Three Internet-based adult literacy and adult education programs in Philadelphia were examined to identify ways Internet technology can be used to improve adult basic and literacy education. The Adult Literacy Technology Innovation Network (ALTIN) technology program, which began in the mid-1990s, provides basic instructional technology staff…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Orr, Thomas, Ed. – 1998
The 13 papers archived here represent a sampling of the 23 presentations approved for the Japan Conference on English for Specific Purposes (ESP): "An Overview of ESP in the 1990s" (Tony Dudley-Evans); "'Easifying' ESP Texts for EFL Science Majors" (Judy Noguchi); "From Non-Communicative Exercises to Technical Writing:…
Descriptors: Art History, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Computer Networks
