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Xiaoji Wang; Wenying Jiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Affordance refers to the opportunity available to a learning activity. Taking affordance as a theoretical and analytical construct, this exploratory study investigates learners' attitudes and the opportunities WeChat may provide for Chinese cultural knowledge (CCK) learning. The aim is to find out the potential new affordances and compare learners…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Awareness, Learning Activities
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Maa, Joy; Taguchi, Naoko – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Increasingly prevalent use of technologies such as instant messaging and online chat has transformed our traditional ways of learning and teaching pragmatics. This study presents an example of such transformation by demonstrating how computer-mediated communication (CMC) may be employed as a tool to provide second language (L2) learners…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Madden, Oneil; Ashby, Soyini – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Living in the 21st century means living in an era that is increasingly globalising where cross-cultural communication is essential; thus, students should be given opportunities to cultivate their Intercultural Communicative Competences (ICC). This paper reports on Phase 3 of ClerKing, a Franco-Jamaican telecollaborative project, which involved…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Exchange Programs
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Madden, Oneil; Nelson, Trishana; Barnett-Passard, Rona – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Telecollaboration allows for students to develop foreign/second language competences linguistically, culturally, and interculturally. The use of platforms, such as WhatsApp and Zoom, is now more frequently exploited in foreign language education to ensure that a wider cross section of students, including Jamaicans, can develop global competences.…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
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Catalano, Theresa; Barriga, Andrea Munoz – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
The globally mobile reality of today's world has made the field of intercultural communication increasingly relevant as people more often find themselves in intercultural situations. As a result, language teachers must be more prepared to work in intercultural contexts, and to teach their own students how to communicate across differences in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning
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Frederiksen, Karen-Margrete, Ed.; Larsen, Sanne, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the EUROCALL society succeeded in holding the 28th EUROCALL conference, EUROCALL2020, on 20-21 August as an online, two-day gathering. The transition process required to make this happen was demanding and insightful for everyone involved, and, in many ways, a logical consequence of the core content and purpose of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Videoconferencing
Shenk, Barbara; And Others – Newsletter of the Japanese Language Teachers Network, 1993
The 30 issues of the newsletter, spanning the period 1986-1993, contain articles on a variety of topics in Japanese second language instruction and the Japanese language teaching profession at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. Topics include recent and upcoming workshops, creating interest in Japanese, creative class activities,…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Software