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Peer reviewedDesmarais, Lise – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1999
Describes a course that used e-mail to improve the German and Spanish written language skills of Canadian Foreign Service Officers. To lower attrition rates, the course required completion of authentic professional tasks, exposing participants to formal, technical, and informal language. Though initial interest was high, attrition was also high,…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, German, Language Skills
Peer reviewedWarschauer, Mark; Donaghy, Keola; Kuamoyo, Hale – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1997
Gives an overview of the history of the Hawaiian language and the decline in number of speakers, chronicles efforts to revitalize it, and discusses the role of computing and online communications in this process, focusing on the Leoki bulletin board system, the first fully based on an indigenous language. Activities in an elementary school…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Hawaiian, Heritage Education
Direct linkVinagre, Margarita – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
This article describes an email project carried out jointly by the Institute of Modern Languages and the Department of Applied Languages at Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) in the US during the first semester of the academic year 2004-2005. Students worked with a partner exchanging…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, International Programs, Language Proficiency, Electronic Mail
