ESL students' computer-mediated communication practices: context configuration.(english as second language)

From: Language, Learning & Technology | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

This paper examines how context is configured in ESL students' language learning practices through computer-mediated communication (CMC). Specifically, I focus on how a group of ESL students jointly constructed the context of their CMC activities through interactional patterns and norms, and how configured affordances within the CMC environment mediated their learning experiences. After a brief review of relevant studies of CMC in the literature, I discuss ecological perspectives of language learning as a core construct of this study, to explain contextual fluidity ...

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