Title: Distance Language Learning and Desktop Videoconferencing: A Chinese Language Case Study
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3639042867
ISBN 13: 9783639042863
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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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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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