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>From: Carmen Zamanillo <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>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.

I would like to hear from any teachers of Spanish or English as a foreign
language who are regularly using CMC and would let me collect data from
their students. As I said, I am interested in the language they produce, so
I would not interfere with the course. Ideally, the data would include
e-mail exchanges, chat room exchanges and, if possible, spoken interactions.

Please e-mail me at [log in to unmask] if you can help me.

Thanks

Carmen Zamanillo