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Peterson, Mark – ReCALL, 2012
This exploratory study investigates the linguistic and social interaction of four intermediate EFL learners during game play in a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG). Twelve illustrative episodes drawn from the participants' text chat, collected in four 70-minute sessions held over a one-month period, are analyzed from a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computer Games, Role Playing
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Kenning, Marie-Madeleine – ReCALL, 2010
This paper has a dual aim: to situate functionalities among the complex of factors that help shape online interactions and to explore the heterogeneity of audio conferencing and its implications. Following a critical discursive synthesis of the treatment of variables in the literature, attention focuses on the distinctive and diverse…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Teleconferencing, Synchronous Communication
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Whyte, Shona – ReCALL, 2011
This qualitative study investigates the relationship between learning opportunities and teacher cognition in the context of a videoconferencing (VC) project for foreign languages (FL) in French primary schools. Six generalist primary teachers were followed throughout the initial six-month stage of the initiative, and data were collected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning
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Develotte, Christine; Guichon, Nicolas; Vincent, Caroline – ReCALL, 2010
This paper explores how language teachers learn to teach with a synchronous multimodal setup ("Skype"), and it focuses on their use of the webcam during the pedagogical interaction. First, we analyze the ways that French graduate students learning to teach online use the multimodal resources available in a desktop videoconferencing (DVC)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Interaction, French
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Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Shield, Lesley – ReCALL, 2008
Mobile learning is undergoing rapid evolution. While early generations of mobile learning tended to propose activities that were carefully crafted by educators and technologists, learners are increasingly motivated by their personal learning needs, including those arising from greater mobility and frequent travel. At the same time, it is often…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Activities, Internet
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Brett, David – ReCALL, 2004
The acquisition of new vowel sounds is one of the most challenging tasks for the adult learner of a second language. It is also an aspect which requires a great deal of time and individual attention. Learners of English are particularly hampered by the irregular orthographic representation of vowel sounds. This paper reports on research in…
Descriptors: Vowels, Adult Students, Adult Education, Feedback (Response)