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ERIC Number: EJ661151
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-1094-3501
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Electronic Discussion and Foreign Language Learning.
Hanna, Barbara; de Nooy, Juliana
Language Learning & Technology, v7 n1 p71-85 Jan 2003
Examines participation of language students in on-line discussion groups with native speakers of the target language. Examines the threads started by four anglophone students of French when they post messages to a forum on the Web site of the French newspaper "Le Monde." Investigation of these examples points to the ways in which electronic discussion inflects and is inflected by cultural and generic expectations. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French, Native Speakers, Newspapers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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