LINGUIST List 23.4343: TOC: Canadian Modern Language Review 68/4 (2012)

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Wed Oct 17 2012 TOC: Canadian Modern Language Review 68/4 (2012) Editor for this issue: Rebekah McClure <rebekahlinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Oct-2012 From: Journals Dept <journalsutpress.utoronto.ca> Subject: Canadian Modern Language Review Vol. 68, No. 4 (2012) E-mail this message to a friend Publisher: University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Journal Title: Canadian Modern Language Review Volume Number: 68 Issue Number: 4 Issue Date: November 2012 Subtitle: Computer-Mediated Discourse and Interaction in Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Main Text: Volume 68, Number 4, November 2012 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q74781g3p7m1/ Computer-mediated Discourse and Interaction in Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Guest Editors Lawrence Williams and Rémi A. van Compernolle This issue contains: Editorial This special issue highlights discourse and interaction in computer-mediated communication (CMC) language learning environments. Our decision to focus on this area was motivated by a desire to promote research that demonstrates and explores close analysis of discourse and the moment-by-moment processes involved in interpersonal communication. Although a growing amount of this type of research already exists, this branch of technology-enhanced language learning remains relatively unexplored because only recently, with the expansion of bandwidth, has communication networks in certain parts of the world become more possible and accessible. The articles in this special issue confirm that 'the medium of communication does not appear to impair interaction, but rather seems to create a new environment with different features for the exchange and creation of information (e.g., Spears & Lea, 1994; Walther et al., 1994)' (Salaberry, 2000, p. 33)…. Excerpt from Editorial by Lawrence Williams and Rémi A. van Compernolle, Guest Editors http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m22524352012299l/?p=532b96abd6c84be8b0aca9b73d23df10&pi=0 Négociation et co-construction du sens en français langueétrangère (FLE) lors d'une immersion dans un environnement virtuel d'apprentissage (EVA) Aurore Mroz http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x818523043515631/?p=532b96abd6c84be8b0aca9b73d23df10&pi=1 Chatting in Paragraphs: Towards Academic Discourse in Foreign Language Chat Adam Mendelson http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m6012543vhx01437/?p=532b96abd6c84be8b0aca9b73d23df10&pi=4 Telecollaboration for Professional Purposes: Towards Developing a Formal Register in the Foreign Language Classroom D. Joseph Cunningham, Nina Vyatkina http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/x024138117j73157/?p=532b96abd6c84be8b0aca9b73d23df10&pi=3 Book and Software Reviews / Critiques de livres et de logiciels http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/lr4k60608t45548j/?p=532b96abd6c84be8b0aca9b73d23df10&pi=2 Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Discourse Analysis Language Acquisition Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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