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>Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:48:36 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
>From: "Jean-Jacques d'Aquin" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #5235 CMC and language learning - data for a dissertation
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>Organization: University of South Alabama
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, LLTI-Editor wrote:
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> >From: Carmen Zamanillo <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Subject: CMC and language learning - data for a dissertation
> >Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:47:54 +0100
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> I am an MA student at Birkbeck College (London) and I am writing my
> dissertation about computer mediated communication and language learning. I
> would like to collect data from learners of Spanish or English using MOOs
> and e-mail to practise and learn the language. I want to examine how these
> channels affect learners' language, and whether there is any transfer of
> skills from written to oral fluency.
** You might be interested in looking at similar research done in Finland
by Seppo Tella. One manuscript is titled "Introducing International
Communications Networks and Electronic mail into Foreign Language
Classrooms: A case study in Finnish Senior Secondary Schools." A strong
example of qualitative methodology. A good dissertation model!
I got the information:
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From: Mark Warschauer <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [pn] Dialogism, language, & technology
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Some of you might be familiar with the work of Seppo Tella. Formerly a
professor of foreign language education at the University of Helsinki,
Tella conducted one of the first longitudinal qualitative studies of an
e-mail exchange by language learners. The study resulted in three
book-length manuscripts published in 1991-92, all of which are now
available online at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/95.pdf
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/99.pdf
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tella/110.pdf
Tella is now a professor of media education and has co-authored with Marja
Mononen-Aaltonen a new book on dialogic communication, language, and
technology. The book is available temporarily for free on the Web and the
authors would like feedback on it. Here's a short notice about it sent by
Tella, who, by the way, can be reached at <[log in to unmask]>.
Mark
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Cheers!
Jean-Jacques d'Aquin, Language Lab Director
University of South Alabama, HUMB-322, Mobile, AL 36688
VOX 334-460-6291 FAX 334-460-7123
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