Student performance on computer chats and in classroom discussions : same or different?

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dc.contributor.advisorWright, David Allanen
dc.contributor.advisorSwaffar, Janet K.en
dc.creatorDeveny Oestreich, Tina Marieen
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-30T13:52:59Z
dc.date.available2016-06-30T13:52:59Z
dc.date.issued2000en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the concept of learner interaction in the context of an advanced Business German language course at The University of Texas at Austin to evaluate classroom communication in an advanced level, content oriented foreign language course. The goal of this study was to investigate the quantitative differences between intermediate to advanced foreign language learner discourse in both face-to-face classroom and computer mediated communication (CMC) discussions by focusing on the percentages of turns and the length of student utterances in each environment. The questions addressed by this study stem from a growing body of research suggesting that the integration of CMC into the L2 classroom has pedagogical benefits that can be qualitatively and quantitatively measured. Studies focusing specifically on the use of synchronous CMC, which allows participants to communicate in real-time via networked computers, have recognized that learners interacting in a synchronous CMC environment are not bound to the same turn-taking conventions found in oral conversations. Some researchers and educators claim that synchronous CMC might be an environment that can allow for more equal exchanges than that found in comparable oral classroom conversations. Findings indicate that communication was far from equal in both of the oral environments, and that although the CMC environment produced more equal communication than the oral activities, it was still far from equally distributed. Furthermore, there were very few instances of negotiation in the CMC environment.en
dc.description.departmentGermanic Studiesen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2901ZG03en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/38756en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden
dc.subjectLanguage pedagogyen
dc.subjectComputer mediated communicationen
dc.subjectCMCen
dc.subjectL2 classroomen
dc.subjectSynchronous CMCen
dc.titleStudent performance on computer chats and in classroom discussions : same or different?en
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentGermanic Studiesen
thesis.degree.disciplineGermanic Studiesen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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