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Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice.

Mark Warschauer
- 01 Dec 1997 - 
- Vol. 81, Iss: 4, pp 470-481
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A conceptual framework for understanding the role of computer-mediated interaction based on a sociocultural analysis of the relationship among text, talk, and learning is introduced and current research is analyzed according to five features particular to online interaction.
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Recently interest has grown concerning the uses of online communication for language teaching Yet this growing interest in computer-mediated collaborative language learning has not been matched by sufficient research and theory This article introduces a conceptual framework for understanding the role of computer-mediated interaction based on a sociocultural analysis of the relationship among text, talk, and learning The article then analyzes current research according to five features particular to online interaction

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Feedback on second language students' writing

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Technologies for foreign language learning: a review of technology types and their effectiveness

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Performance in e-learning: online participation and student grades

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Thought and language

Lev Vygotsky
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.
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Thought and language

D. Laplane
TL;DR: From aphasics' self records, common experience, changes in signification of sentences according to a verbal or non-verbal context, animals and non speaking children performances, it seems possible to get some evidence that thought is distinct from language even though there is a permanent interaction between both in normal adult human beings.
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Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension-Monitoring Activities

TL;DR: In this article, two instructional studies directed at the comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities of seventh grade poor comprehenders are reported, and the training method was that of reciprocal teaching, where the tutor and students took turns leading a dialogue centered on pertinent features of the text.
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Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Craft of Reading, Writing and Mathematics

TL;DR: This paper proposes the development of a new cognitive apprenticeship to teach students the thinking and problem-solving skills involved in school subjects such as reading, writing and mathematics.