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Practice Of Online Chat Communication Between Two Countries And Across Different Curricula, Ritsuko Saito, Noriko Ishizuka
Practice Of Online Chat Communication Between Two Countries And Across Different Curricula, Ritsuko Saito, Noriko Ishizuka
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Internet Chat As Collaborative Call: Language Learning Strategies In An Internet Chat Class, Ritsuko Saito
Internet Chat As Collaborative Call: Language Learning Strategies In An Internet Chat Class, Ritsuko Saito
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes an internet Chat class in a compulsory Japanese language subject at an Australian university. The study seeks evidence of the use of language strategies relating to social interaction in Chat classes and examines the importance of strategy use in this form of Collaborative CALL. It also presents the way the medium is used in the curriculum as a means of fostering student collaboration. A preliminary survey was conducted to investigate types of strategies used by the students in two specific situations: when they saw an unknown word in their Chat partner s message and when they did …