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Qin, Tianyu; van Compernolle, Rémi A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
The focus of this article is on the design and administration of an online computerized dynamic assessment of an important area of pragmatics: implicature comprehension (i.e., indirect meaning). The assessment centered on indirect acceptances, refusals, and opinions. Drawing on Vygotskian psychology, this assessment had a dual aim: (a) to evaluate…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Li, Mimi; Zhu, Wei – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This article reports a case study that examined dynamic patterns of interaction that two small groups (Group A and Group B) of ESL students exemplified when they performed two writing tasks: a research proposal (Task 1) and an annotated bibliography (Task 2) in a wiki site. Group A demonstrated a collective pattern in Task 1, but switched to an…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Sociocultural Patterns, Case Studies
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Dahlberg, Giulia Messina; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The study presented in this article explores the ways in which discursive-technologies shape interaction in "digitally-mediated" educational settings in terms of affordances and constraints for the participants. Our multi-scale sociocultural-dialogical analysis of the interactional order in the online sessions of an "Italian for…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Grammar, Literacy, Introductory Courses
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Jin, Li – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
Previous research (e.g., Belz & Thorne, 2006; Ware & O'Dowd, 2008) has discovered that language learning can be afforded through intercultural telecollaboration. From a sociocultural theoretical perspective, the current study investigated the language development outcomes and process in a 10-week Sino-American telecollaborative project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Collentine, Karina – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers strive to understand the language and exchanges that learners generate in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Doughty and Long (2003) advocate replacing open-ended SCMC with task-based language teaching (TBLT) design principles. Since most task-based SCMC (TB-SCMC) research addresses an…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Second Language Instruction