Virtual communities of practice: An inquiry into the creation, benefits, motivations, enablers and barriers to participation

Simon Thomas - Teachers' Communities of Practice (CoP) offer the potential for continuous professional development through knowledge sharing networks.

TOEFL iBT Training in the CALL Classroom

Aaron P. Campbell, Richard Silver - This paper describes a CALL course for EFL students at a Japanese university in…

Reasons for using YouTube in the language classroom including practical usage examples

James York - Recent statistical data regarding YouTube reveals two important factors that may be utilized by language teachers.

Japanese university students use Content 2.0 online forum to share their views of the world

Gary J. Wolff - As a supplement to the textbook World Interviews (Craven, 2006) which interviews young people from 16…

EFL learners’ proficiency differences and their CMC Interaction during an asymmetrical convergent task

Ryo Ito - This study examined the impact of EFL learners' proficiency differences on their dyadic interaction on the internet.

Learning in student-generated T.V. commercials enhanced by computer technology

Joyce Cunningham - In general, English language classes have used advertising mainly for cultural and linguistic content as well as…

Exploring genres and mediated actions in Taiwanese college students’ blog writing

Ching-Fen Chang - This study examines genres displayed in 25 Taiwanese college students' English blogs and their mediated actions in…

Online peer conferencing in academic writing

Jung-Ts Lin, Chih-Hua Kuo - Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has been used in language education in various forms to facilitate…