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Computer Mediated Communication: Tools for Instructing Russian Heritage Language Learners
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Meskill, Carla; Anthony, Natasha – Heritage Language Journal, 2008
The unique needs, goals, and constraints of heritage language learners in U.S. higher education and the multiple ways that they differ from those of second and foreign language (L2) learners have been well documented (Brisk, 2000; Chevalier, 2004; Grosjean, 1982; Kagan & Dillon, 2003). Each population uses its two languages in diverse ways, for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Mothers, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Form-focused Communicative Practice via CMC: What Language Learners Say
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Meskill, Carla; Anthony, Natasha – CALICO Journal, 2007
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is being used widely to support and extend foreign language instruction. Language learners are practicing the target language by communicating with their instructors, peers, and native speakers at a distance. This study examines high-beginning and low-intermediate learners of Russian and their uses of, and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Russian, Native Speakers, Interviews
Teaching and Learning with Telecommunications: Instructional Discourse in a Hybrid Russian Class
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Meskill, Carla; Anthony, Natasha – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2004
Where learner discourse has been the focus of much recent research on asynchonous online instruction, the specific forms of instructional discourse used by online educators has yet to be examined. Indeed, the majority of work in the area of foreign language and telecommunications has concentrated on student-student, student-peer interaction, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Russian, Computer Mediated Communication
Foreign Language Learning with CMC: Forms of Online Instructional Discourse in a Hybrid Russian Class
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Meskill, Carla; Anthony, Natasha – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2005
Where the role of instructor discourse has been the focus of much recent research on asynchronous online instruction, the anatomy of effective instructional discourse of foreign language educators has yet to be examined. Indeed, the majority of work in the area of foreign language and telecommunications has concentrated on student-student,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Russian