Language, Learning & Technology articles from May 2006

Language, Learning & Technology archives from May 2006

From the editors.(electronic literacy, language learning)(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... Welcome to Volume 10, Number 2 of Language Learning & Technology, a special issue on electronic literacy. We are very grateful to Carla Meskill who has done an outstanding job of guest editing this issue, under the expert guidance of Associate...

From the special issue editor.(language learning, electronic literacy)(Editorial)
May 1, 2006... It is my pleasure to introduce this special issue of LLT on electronic literacy. The contributing authors take on the large and challenging questions that new forms of electronic communication provoke, as they examine how electronic texts are...

On the net: Wikipedia: a multilingual treasure trove.
May 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Encyclopedias are excellent sources of basic introductory information on historical and cultural topics for foreign language (FL) students. The articles in these reference works do not have the depth of more extensive works...

Emerging technologies: tag clouds in the blogosphere: electronic literacy and social networking.
May 1, 2006... Electronic literacy today is a moving target. How and why we read and write online are evolving at the fast pace of Internet time. One of the most striking developments in the past few years has been how new social networking phenomena on the...

News from sponsoring organizations.
May 1, 2006... Sponsors University of Hawai'I National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Co-Sponsor Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) University of...

Review of Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the Unites States Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher 2004 ISBN 0-8508-4314-0 US $32.50 259 pp. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Mahwah, New...

Review of Literacy in the New Media Age.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Literacy in the New Media Age Gunther Kress 2003 ISBN 0-415-25356-X US $31.95 (paperback); $105.00 (hardback) 208 pp. Routledge New York, USA That much of the writing we encounter daily takes the form of...

Review of Beginner's Chinese and Intermediate Chinese.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Beginner's Chinese with Two Audio CDs Yong Ho 1997 ISBN 0-7818-1095-7 US $25 188 pp. Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, USA Intermediate Chinese with Two Audio CDs Yong Ho 2004 ISBN...

The development of e-mail literacy: from writing to peers to writing to authority figures.
May 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Though e-mail has become a common interpersonal communication medium, it does not mean that this medium is used without difficulty. While people can write e-mails to peers in any manner they like, writing e-mails to authority...

Mode, meaning, and synaesthesia in multimedia L2 writing.
May 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This study of digital storytelling attempts to apply Kress's (2003) notions of synaesthesia, transformation, and transduction to the analysis of four undergraduate L2 writers' multimedia text creation processes. The students,...

Playing the videotext: a media literacy perspective on video-mediated L2 listening.
May 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Adopting a literacy perspective towards student interactions with digital media can extend and develop views of second language (L2) listening comprehension. In this case study, variations in play are grounded in a media literacy...

Exploring the relationship between electronic literacy and heritage language maintenance.
May 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the electronic literacy practices of two Korean-American heritage language learners who manage Korean weblogs. Online users deliberately alter standard forms of written language and play with symbols,...