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English in cyberspace

Negotiating digital literacies in a climate of educational accountability
  • Heather Lotherington , Deanna Neville-Verardi and Natalia Sinitskaya Ronda
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Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching
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Abstract

This chapter explores the educational gap between contemporary cyberspace communications that bring youth of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds together in an era of local-global synergies, and resources and approaches used in English language and literacy teaching and testing, and questions the political agenda to gate-keep restrictive literacy attainment which creates unhelpful divisions between L1 and L2 users. The authors raise relevant communicative issues for second language users in this discussion of contemporary digital genres and platforms that are growing in global popularity, such as contending with the shifting orthographic conventions used in digital conversations which at the same time facilitate conversational practice free from the stigma of an identifying “foreign” accent.

Abstract

This chapter explores the educational gap between contemporary cyberspace communications that bring youth of diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds together in an era of local-global synergies, and resources and approaches used in English language and literacy teaching and testing, and questions the political agenda to gate-keep restrictive literacy attainment which creates unhelpful divisions between L1 and L2 users. The authors raise relevant communicative issues for second language users in this discussion of contemporary digital genres and platforms that are growing in global popularity, such as contending with the shifting orthographic conventions used in digital conversations which at the same time facilitate conversational practice free from the stigma of an identifying “foreign” accent.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. About the contributors vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. New literacies
  6. English in cyberspace 11
  7. Navigating and interpreting hypertext in French 43
  8. Web-based translation for promoting language awareness 65
  9. Part II. Chat
  10. Learner noticing, negative feedback, and uptake in synchronous computer-mediated environments 87
  11. Teaching language variation in French through authentic chat discourse 111
  12. Exploring native and nonnative interactive discourse in text-based chat beyond classroom settings 127
  13. Part III. Podcasts
  14. Podcasts and second language learning 153
  15. Discourse analysis of podcasts in French 169
  16. Part IV. Blogs
  17. Interactional and discursive features of English-language weblogs for language learning and teaching 193
  18. Second-person pronoun use in French-language blogs 213
  19. Blogs in Spanish beyond the classroom 241
  20. Part V. Discussion forums
  21. Linguistic and social dimensions of French-language discussion forums 263
  22. The discussion forum as a locus for developing L2 pragmatic awareness 291
  23. The discussion forum as a component of a technology-enhanced Integrated Performance Assessment 319
  24. Index 345
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.25.04lot

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. About the contributors vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. New literacies
  6. English in cyberspace 11
  7. Navigating and interpreting hypertext in French 43
  8. Web-based translation for promoting language awareness 65
  9. Part II. Chat
  10. Learner noticing, negative feedback, and uptake in synchronous computer-mediated environments 87
  11. Teaching language variation in French through authentic chat discourse 111
  12. Exploring native and nonnative interactive discourse in text-based chat beyond classroom settings 127
  13. Part III. Podcasts
  14. Podcasts and second language learning 153
  15. Discourse analysis of podcasts in French 169
  16. Part IV. Blogs
  17. Interactional and discursive features of English-language weblogs for language learning and teaching 193
  18. Second-person pronoun use in French-language blogs 213
  19. Blogs in Spanish beyond the classroom 241
  20. Part V. Discussion forums
  21. Linguistic and social dimensions of French-language discussion forums 263
  22. The discussion forum as a locus for developing L2 pragmatic awareness 291
  23. The discussion forum as a component of a technology-enhanced Integrated Performance Assessment 319
  24. Index 345
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