Network-Based Language Teaching

This text provides a critical collection of recent research in on-line communication for second language learning. The paperback edition provides a critical collection of recent research in on-line communication for second language learning including uses of e-mail real-time writing and the Web. Chapters analyze the theories underlying computer-assisted learning explore the contexts that affect network-based teaching and examine the linguistic nature of computer-mediated interaction in both textual and multimedia environments. This book will be of vital importance to language teachers and researchers as well as to readers with a general interest in linguistics computer-mediated communication and education.