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Teaching Presence in Students' WhatsApp Groups: Affordances for Language Learning
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Naghdipour, Bakhtiar; Manca, Stefania – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023
With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and disruption of campus-based education, the use of mobile social networking applications to supplement formal education has attracted a great deal of attention. Teachers do have opportunities to join students' online groups to share, clarify, and exchange housekeeping information and course-related content with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Role of Hypertext in Teaching Foreign Languages
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Bourina, Helena V.; Dunaeva, Larisa A. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The future of teaching foreign languages is associated with a screen culture, which will contribute to diversification and multiplication of educational sources. Therefore, along with a teacher, hypertext technology and information network claim the role of an authoritative source of knowledge about the world. The image of modern language is the…
Descriptors: Role, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Re-Imagining Internet Scholarship: Academic Uses and Abuses of the Influential Internet Social Network, Facebook
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Nam, Kyoung-Ah; Fry, Gerald W. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
Since its inception at Harvard in 2004, the social network, Facebook, has grown dramatically and spread across the globe. It will soon have 1 billion users and is now operative in over 75 languages. A large percentage of undergraduates are now active on Facebook. Much of the recent literature on Facebook focuses on business applications and how it…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Social Networks, Internet