Highlights the importance of classroom discourse to any second language teacher
education programmeReflective practice is central to teacher education and development …

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence social presence and user
satisfaction with Mobile Instant Messaging (mIM). The proposed research model integrates …

Human interaction is fundamentally about shared understanding, created when interlocutors
engage with one another around their own intended meaning and the intended meaning of …

Abstract The use of Conversation Analysis (CA) in the study of technology-mediated
interactions is a recent methodological addition to qualitative research in the field of …

There is a “prevalence of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in education,” and a
concern for its negative psychosocial consequences and lack of effectiveness as an …

This chapter suggests that researchers in the field of second language learning often start
with different basic assumptions about the nature of 'language'and 'learning'(as well as …

Page 1 Studies in Social Interaction Social Interaction in Second Language Chat Rooms
Christopher Jenks Page 2 2 SOCIAL INTERACTION IN SECOND LANGUAGE CHAT ROOMS …

Great diversity exists in the way English is being used in the world today. It is now not
uncommon to hear a Korean and a Brazilian do business in English, or a Syrian and a …

In a growing, multilingual world, learners across the globe need to be prepared for a society
and a workforce in which most communication is with people in other places and, most often …

Opening an interaction is a crucial step in establishing and maintaining social relationships.
In this paper we describe how participants in an institutional setting, a help desk counter for …