Computer technology provides learners with new and varied options for language learning
through interactive tasks delivered through CD-ROMs, Web pages, and communications …

People tend to think of technology as fast paced, quickly changing, and difficult to keep up
with. In some ways this perception accurately characterizes the technology-related aspects …

Despite the expanded use of the Internet for language learning and practice, little attention if
any has been given to the quality of interaction among English L2 speakers in …

This statement was reportedly uttered by a salesperson who had been demonstrating
interactive educational software to a client. The story goes that several employees of an …

The Sage handbook of e-learning research Page 2 The SAGE Handbook of E-learning Research
Page 3 SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of …

This study explored the benefits and drawbacks of synchronous voice-based computer-
mediated communication (CMC) in a blended course of English for specific purposes …

Recent CALL research has started to go beyond the comparison of CALL versus non-CALL
environments to explore what learners do while going through CALL activities. One …

Communicative competence is the ultimate goal of most learners of a second language and
intelligible pronunciation a fundamental part of it. Unfortunately, learners often lack the …

The interaction approach to second language acquisition (SLA) suggests that changes that
occur during conversation facilitate second language development by providing learners …

Driven by interactionist theory and operationalized by task-based interaction, this study aims
to investigate EFL learners' task-based negotiation in Second Life (SL), a 3D multi-user …