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Strawbridge, Tripp – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
This study investigates the interaction of native speaker--non-native speaker (NS-NNS) dyads engaged in conversational interaction as part of a video-based synchronous computer mediated communication (VidSCMC) eTandem language program. Previous work has indicated certain advantages of NNS-NS conversational interaction for language learning (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Native Speakers, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Basharina, Olga K. – Language Learning & Technology, 2007
This process-oriented study focuses on contradictions that emerged in a WebCT bulletin board collaboration among English learners from Japan, Mexico and Russia, and explains them from the perspective of activity theory (Leont'ev, 1978, 1981; Engestrom, 1987, 1999). The study identified a) two "intra-cultural" contradictions--to post or…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology