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Akiyama, Yuka; Saito, Kazuyo – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study examined whether 30 learners of Japanese in the United States who engaged in a semester-long video-based eTandem course made gains in global language comprehensibility, that is, ease of understanding (Derwing & Munro, 2009), and what linguistic correlates contributed to these gains. Speech excerpts from Week 2 and 8 of tandem…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Telecommunications, Grammar
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Akiyama, Yuka – Research-publishing.net, 2016
To examine how participants' different eTandem experiences could be attributed to the way they co-constructed turns, this study analyzed turn negotiation practices of one dyad who engaged in video-mediated interaction between Japan and America. This dyad was chosen for analysis because they expressed the greatest frustration and required a…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Program Descriptions