Carolin Fuchs

Computer-Mediated Negotiation Across Borders

German-American Collaboration in Language Teacher Education. Dissertationsschrift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents findings from a research project which provided future language teachers in Germany and in the US with the opportunity to experience computer-mediated collaboration. Overall goals of the project included preparing preservice language teachers to use computer technology in their future teaching, fostering electronic and professional literacies and cross-cultural learning. This volume explores institutional, technical, socio-cultural and linguistic challenges encountered by participants when jointly designing a website. Data collection instruments were triangulated, and a Grounded Theory approach was used to identify categories such as linguistic issues and missed negotiation opportunities. Based on her findings, the author makes recommendations for future projects and research.

Produktdetails

• Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne 424
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 54774
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9783631547748
• ISBN-10: 3631547749
• Artikelnr.: 25903921

Autorenporträt

The Author: Carolin Fuchs is Research Scholar in the Department of French at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the Institut für Anglistik at the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen. Additionally, she holds an M.A. in TESOL and a Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her primary research interests include synchronous and asynchronous CMC-based language teaching and learning, electronic literacies, corpus linguistics, socio-cultural theory, dynamic assessment, intercultural learning, and electronic portfolios in language teaching and teacher education.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents : Approaching the Research Niche - Reviewing CMC in Language Learning - Revisiting Cooperative Language Learning and Communicative Language Teaching, and Discussing Technology in Teacher Education - Laying out the Research Map - Contextualizing the Study: "CMC MIIS-Giessen" - Presenting the Quantitative and Qualitative Results of the Study - Analyzing the Groups' (Topic) Negotiation in Email and Chat Transcripts - Discussing Paticipants' Perspectives on CMC-Based Challenges - Revisiting the Key Principles of Negotiation and Calling for Further Research.