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LEVERAGE: Reciprocal peer tutoring over broadband networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Jan Wong  and
Agnès Fauverge
Jan Wong
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
Agnès Fauverge
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, UK
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Abstract

This paper reports on the experimental use of a broadband computer network hypermedia environment for language learning (French, English and Spanish). Using Web-based resources, students engage in a collaborative task over a network which offers high quality video-conferencing, application sharing and access to authentic multimedia resources. One of the main aims was to establish the practicalities of providing learners of languages with opportunities to engage in reciprocal peer tutoring. After outlining the pedagogical assumptions, and describing the set-up of the network-based learning environment, the trials are analysed, and the effectiveness of network-based language learning in supporting collaborative learning is discussed.

Type
Selected Papers
Information
ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 133 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1999

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