Online Video-Based Interaction: A Learning Arrangement for English Language Learning

Authors

  • Noureddine Mouhadjer Tlemcen University, Algeria

Abstract

Nowadays, a great deal of research has been produced on the effects of an on-line environment on the language teaching and language learning process, where Internet has been quickly and eagerly taken up by educators as both a tool and a medium for foreign language education. The type of teaching delivered in such classrooms is referred to as network-based language teaching (NBLT), and the technologies most commonly used as either non-synchronous communication tools (such as e-mails), or synchronous tools (such as web-based videoconferencing, and chats). For that reason, this article takes a collaboration between Tlemcen University from Algeria and East Carolina University from North Carolina in USA as a case study to discuss the pedagogical implications of video-based communication, such as videoconferencing which distinguishes itself greatly from the other technologies, on foreign language learning.

Author Biography

Noureddine Mouhadjer, Tlemcen University, Algeria

Lecturer of Linguistics at UABT, Tlemcen, Algeria

Published

2013-04-26

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