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German Arellano-Soto; Susan Parks – CALICO Journal, 2021
This study analyzed eTandem video-conferencing exchanges between five pairs of university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) and Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). The exchanges, which involved discussion of seven tasks, took place on a weekly basis. Drawing on an interactionist perspective (Ellis et al., 2001a; Loewen, 2005), the…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kennedy, Kristen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the acquisition of target-like patterns of variation by 22 American learners of French during study abroad (SA) in France and correlates such acquisition with the creation of dense, multiplex, exchange-based social networks (Milroy 1980) with native speakers (NSs) during the SA period. In this longitudinal study, naturalistic…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), North Americans