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Online Domains of Language Use: Second Language Learners' Experiences of Virtual Community and Foreignness
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Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
This paper examines the use of CMC in both Japanese and English dominated "domains" by Australian learners of Japanese. The natural, social online communication of 12 Australian university students with 18 of their Japanese contacts was collected for a period of up to four years, resulting in a corpus of approximately 2,000 instances of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Internet
Blogging to Learn: Becoming EFL Academic Writers through Collaborative Dialogues
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Sun, Yu-Chih; Chang, Yu-jung – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
This study examines how blogs and their interactive and collaborative features help academically-advanced graduate students process academic writing knowledge and make sense of their writer identity. Seven graduate students undertaking Master's level study in TESOL and Linguistics participated. The research questions are: (a) What kinds of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Advanced Students, Writing (Composition)
Acquisition of L2 Japanese Geminates: Training with Waveform Displays
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Motohashi-Saigo, Miki; Hardison, Debra M. – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
The value of waveform displays as visual feedback was explored in a training study involving perception and production of L2 Japanese by beginning-level L1 English learners. A pretest-posttest design compared auditory-visual (AV) and auditory-only (A-only) Web-based training. Stimuli were singleton and geminate /t,k,s/ followed by /a,u/ in two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese, Web Based Instruction