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A Preliminary Study on the Application of ELT Internet Chatrooms. Badi Jiun-ren Chen * Sylvia Min-lee Li St. Paul’s High School, Kaohsiung badi@mail.mcsh.kh.edu.tw *Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High School cubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw. Some Issues about ELT Internet Chatrooms. --5.
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A Preliminary Study on the Application of ELT Internet Chatrooms Badi Jiun-ren Chen *Sylvia Min-lee LiSt. Paul’s High School, Kaohsiungbadi@mail.mcsh.kh.edu.tw *Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High Schoolcubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw
Some Issues about ELT Internet Chatrooms --5 • What is an ELT Internet chatroom? • Why do we use ELT Internet chatrooms? • How do we use ELT Internet chatrooms? • What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms?
Why do we use ELT Internet Chatrooms? • The nature of language learning • Real linguistic experiences(Sierra 1999) • Communicative competence (Hyme 1970s) • Students’ learning motivation
How do we use ELT Internet Chatrooms? • Course Design (Swimming training) • Visual Campus • Topic Discussion among students of different schools or in the same class
What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? • Research Design • Methodology: CA (Sacks et al. 1974) • Qualitative analysis • Quantitative analysis • Subjects • Background: N=15; Age=14 • Topic
What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? 2 • Findings • Qualitatively • Netiquette Training • English Typing Speed Training • The Restriction of the Number of Interlocutors in Chatrooms • Conversation Skill Training
Quantitatively What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms?
Implications • The implications to ELT Internet Chatrooms • Netiquette Training • English Typing Speed Training • The Restriction of the Number of Interlocutors in Chatrooms • Conversation Skill Training • Issues for Further Investigation • The Relation between the Number of Interlocutors and the Use of ELT Internet Chatrooms • The Use of Conversational Turns as an Evaluation Tool for Communicative Competence • Moderating Multiparty Talks in ELT Chatrooms