Language Choice Among Peers in Project-Based Learning: A Hong Kong Case Study of English Language Learners’ Plurilingual Practices in Out-of-Class Computer-Mediated Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph A. Hafner ◽  
David C.S. Li ◽  
Lindsay Miller
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated

Use of the Wiki for Cross-Institutional Collaborations

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Graduate Institution

This article discusses how groups of student teachers use the wiki to collaborate cross-institutionally in order to design tasks for English language learners. Participants in this case study involved student teachers at a private graduate institution on the East Coast in the U.S. and students at a public graduate institution in Luxembourg. In this action research approach, data triangulation involved gathering information through a combination of different instruments such as computer-mediated communication data, needs analyses, journal entries, and post-course questionnaires. Findings showed that in addition to writing collaboratively, groups used the wiki as a discussion tool. This subsequently led to an exploration of the interactions through computer-mediated discourse analysis and a discussion of methodological implications.

scholarly journals A case study of a learner’s use of an online translator as a cognitive tool in a SCMC context

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
Morgane Domanchin
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Comprehension Skills

This study explores a language learner’s screen while interacting from a desktop videoconferencing device as part of an intercultural telecollaboration exchange that connected teacher-trainees and French learners. Communicative tasks involving opinion exchanges require from language learners simultaneous speaking and listening comprehension skills, which may prompt linguistic difficulties. To compensate for their weaknesses, learners had access to online resources exposing them to various and complex language use. Based on Jonassen’s (1992) work on ‘cognitive tools’ as intelligent resources that contribute to knowledge construction, the author draws on multimodal interaction analysis to question the uses of an automatic online translator in the context of Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication (SCMC). This study illustrates a learner’s technical autonomy using Google Translate (GT) to search for vocabulary while interacting with his interlocutors. It reports the learner’s emergence of a linguistic need which is followed by a search for vocabulary leading in some cases to the searched translation’s integration within the pedagogical interaction. This study raises cognitive challenges that such a practice presents for language learning.

A case study of language learners’ social presence in synchronous CMC

ReCALL ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Jung Ko
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Learning Journals

AbstractThis study adopts a case study approach to investigate the impacts of synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) learning environments on learners’ perception of social presence. The participants were twelve French as a foreign language (FFL) beginners in a Taiwanese university. Divided into three groups, they conducted some tasks in three different learning environments (video/audio, audio and face-to-face) during an academic semester. Before each oral task, all the participants had to conduct the same task in synchronous text chat. The participants’ interview transcriptions, learning journals and the instructor's observation journal provided information about the impacts of each environment on their perception of social presence. The results of the study suggested that the differences in the environments are reflected in the learners’ perception of social presence.

Insights from an MSN Corpus

2010 ◽  
pp. 60-94
Author(s):  
Adams B. Bodomo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Instant Communication

In this chapter I look closely at one type of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Microsoft Network (MSN) instant messaging. MSN instant communication is quite popular among the youth in most parts of the world. In Hong Kong, it has fast replaced I-seek-you (ICQ) and QQ (in mainland China) as one of the primary instant communication tools among the youth. In this chapter I will be looking particularly at the linguistic features of this kind of communication. More specifically, Hong Kong being a trilingual and biliterate society, one would want to see how participants juggle these languages within the medium of the MSN instant messaging and what linguistic features are thus produced. As is usual with most chapters our observations are based on a case study. So first I present this study in the next section. A distinctive feature of this chapter from some others is that I present and describe a comprehensive corpus as an example of an actual CMC exchanges. This will give us insights into the actual communication sessions of young people who use MSN in Hong Kong.

Assessment 360°: A Panoramic Framework for Assessing English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Lewis ◽  
Nancy Castilleja ◽  
Barbara J. Moore ◽  
Barbara Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Many Sources

This issue describes the Assessment 360° process, which takes a panoramic approach to the language assessment process with school-age English Language Learners (ELLs). The Assessment 360° process guides clinicians to obtain information from many sources when gathering information about the child and his or her family. To illustrate the process, a bilingual fourth grade student whose native language (L1) is Spanish and who has been referred for a comprehensive language evaluation is presented. This case study features the assessment issues typically encountered by speech-language pathologists and introduces assessment through a panoramic lens. Recommendations specific to the case study are presented along with clinical implications for assessment practices with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

scholarly journals New Media Technology in Developing Effective Organizational Internal Communication

Humaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Nur Kholisoh ◽  
Ria Sulastri
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Communication Pattern ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated

The article was intended to investigate various benefits of Whatsapp Messenger application for an effective intenal communication in PT Euro Management Indonesia. In addition, this research also aimed to map the organizational internal communication pattern through the use of Whatsapp Messenger application. The research used theories of organizaional communication, new media communication pattern, and computer mediated communication (CMC). Moreover, paradigm used in the research was constructivist with qualitative approach and the research method was case study. The research result finds that the use of new media Whatsapp Messenger as a tool of communication can build effective internal communication in PT Euro Management Indonesia. Moreover, it also shows that the internal organizational communication pattern in PT Euro Management Indonesia used in Whatsapp Messenger application is conversation pattern.

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