Social Networking for Language Education

✍ Scribed by Marie-Noëlle Lamy, Katerina Zourou (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social networking is now one of the ways in which anyone can set out to learn or improve their language skills. This collection brings together different sets of learning experiences and shows that success depends on the wider environment of the learner, the kind of activity the learner engages in and the type of learning priorities he or she has.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
An Ecological Analysis of Social Networking Site-Mediated Identity Development....Pages 11-30
Architecture Students’ Appropriation of Avatars — Relationships between Avatar Identity and L2 Verbal Participation and Interaction....Pages 31-55
Online Reading Groups and Network Dynamics....Pages 56-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Bridging Design and Language Interaction and Reuse in Livemocha’s Culture Section....Pages 77-99
Profiles in Social Networking Sites for Language Learning — Livemocha Revisited....Pages 100-116
It’s Not Just the Tool: Pedagogy for Promoting Collaboration and Community in Social Networking in CMC....Pages 117-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
A Study of the Use of Social Network Sites for Language Learning by University ESL Students....Pages 137-157
Online and Offsite: Student-Driven Development of the Taiwan-France Telecollaborative Project Beyond These Walls....Pages 158-176
Formative Assessment within Social Network Sites for Language Learning....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Social Media-Based Language Learning: Insights from Research and Practice....Pages 197-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-237

✦ Subjects

Language Education; Applied Linguistics; Technology and Digital Education; Teaching and Teacher Education; Literature, general; Language Teaching