A Preliminary Study on the Application of ELT Internet Chatrooms

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A Preliminary Study on the Application of ELT
Internet Chatrooms

• Badi Jiun-ren Chen Sylvia Min-lee LiSt.
  Pauls High School, Kaohsiungbadi_at_mail.mcsh.kh.ed
  u.tw
• Kaohsiung Girls Senior High Schoolcubby_at_cc.nsy
  su.edu.tw

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Some Issues about ELT Internet Chatrooms
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• 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?

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What is an ELT Internet Chatroom?
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Why do we use ELT Internet Chatrooms?

• The nature of language learning
• Real linguistic experiences(Sierra 1999)
• Communicative competence (Hyme 1970s)
• Students learning motivation

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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

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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 N15 Age14
• Topic

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• Data Collection Processing

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What are the problems with the application of ELT
Internet chatrooms?
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• Findings
• Qualitatively
• Netiquette Training
• English Typing Speed Training
• The Restriction of the Number of Interlocutors in
  Chatrooms
• Conversation Skill Training

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What are the problems with the application of ELT
Internet chatrooms?

• Quantitatively

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Analytical Results
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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