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Publication Date: 1998
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Videoconferencing as Access to Spoken French.
Kinginger, Celeste
Modern Language Journal, v82 n4 p502-13 Win 1998
Analysis of French used in teleconferences between American and French university students, relative to technical and discursive dimensions and learners' Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), found much of the language used was beyond these learners' capability, due to heightened classroom anxiety and differences in language varieties used by learners and native speakers. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education, International Cooperation, Knowledge Level, Language Proficiency, Language Role, Language Usage, Language Variation, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction, Second Languages, Teleconferencing
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France; United States
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