Language Learning & Technology
2003 Volume 7, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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Tele-Collaborative Projects: Monsters.com?
Jean LeLoup & Robert Ponterio
Examines a collaborative language learning project that brought together elementary and middle school students in France, Canada, and a Basque school to communicate about monsters--a topic of... More
pp. 6-11
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Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-Line Collaboration
Bob Goodwin-Jones
Discusses two recent innovations made available via the Internet that are useful to language educators: blogs and wikis. Blogs are on-line journals that offer opportunities for collaborative use.... More
pp. 12-16
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Artifact and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural Communication
Steven L. Thorne
Develops a conceptual framework for understanding how intercultural communication, mediated by cultural artifacts, creates compelling, problematic, and surprising conditions for additional language... More
pp. 38-67
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Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Intercultural Competence in Telecollaboration
Julie A. Belz
Presents a case study of the development of intercultural competence in a German-American e-mail partnership by examining the electronic interaction produced in this exchange within the framework... More
pp. 68-117
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Understanding the "Other Side": Intercultural learning in a Spanish-English E-Mail Exchange
Robert O'Dowd
Reviews recent research on intercultural learning and reports on a yearlong e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university students. Identifies key characteristics of e-mail... More
pp. 118-44
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Negotiation of Meaning and Codeswitching in Online Tandems
Markus Kotter
Analyzes negotiation of meaning and code switching in discourse between 29 language students from classes at a German and a North American university, who teamed up with their peers to collaborate ... More
pp. 145-72
