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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Collaborative Scaffolding in Online Task-Based Voice Interactions between Advanced Learners
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Kenning, Marie-Madeleine – ReCALL, 2010
This paper reports some of the findings of a distinctive innovative use of audio-conferencing involving a population (campus-based advanced learners) and a type of application (task-based language learning) that have received little attention to date: the use of Wimba Voice Tools to provide additional opportunities for spoken interactions between…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Task Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Differences that Make the Difference: A Study of Functionalities in Synchronous CMC
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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