Distance Language Learning and Desktop Videoconferencing: A Chinese Language Case Study - Softcover

Wang, Yuping

 
9783639042863: Distance Language Learning and Desktop Videoconferencing: A Chinese Language Case Study
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3639042867 ISBN 13: 9783639042863
Publisher: VDM Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

This book is a study of e-learning for online language learners, with particular reference to students of Modern Standard Chinese. Using desktop videoconferencing as the medium of instruction, the author documents how remote language learners may overcome distance and acquire communicative competence through synchronous one-on-one oral and visual interaction with their instructors. Through an empirical evaluation of such interaction, this study sheds light on significant issues and challenges in an emerging field, including the needs and experiences of distance language learners, videoconferencing-based task design, implementation and evaluation, and the benefits, limitations and potential of videoconferencing-supported language learning. This book will be of interest to CALL researchers, course designers, teachers, and language learners who wish to work effectively in a multimodal online environment via sophisticated learning systems.

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About the Author

Yuping Wang, PhD: Studied Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) at Griffith University. Senior lecturer of Chinese language in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia.

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Publisher
VDM Verlag
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3639042867
ISBN 13 
9783639042863
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336