Language Economy in Computer-Mediated Communication

2013 ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. White
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Full Version ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Internet Community ◽  
Native English Speaking

This chapter presents an analysis of economised language in textchat data from non-native English-speaking students in an MA programme in English Linguistics. Previous research by the author demonstrated that forms clipped or otherwise reduced from their full version can be considered evidence that an Internet community of practice has formed. The author argues here that this implies that the learners are exhibiting autonomy, and he also demonstrates that the same can be concluded for the ellipsis. The functions of the ellipsis are identified, which demonstrates that students are interacting, and therefore, are at least in the process of forming a social learning community.

Online Learning Community

2011 ◽  
pp. 1506-1511
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Kazmer
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Computer Mediated

The study and implementation of online learning communities emerges from two approaches related to the idea of “community.” The first approach was how people began to think about learning community, but not restricted to online settings. Learning community incorporates the idea of a cohesive, collaborative culture among members with the purpose of supporting individual learning by facilitating shared knowledge creation. The idea of a learning community, and its importance for improving learning, pre-dated most online learning, and the focus was on building communitiesto support learning regardless of setting. The second approach was that people began to inquire whether it was possible to build community online, but not for purposes restricted to learning. The idea that true community was possible via computer-mediated communication (CMC) was, and still is, contentious. However, as the years have passed since this question first emerged, the idea that community can be formed online has been increasingly accepted.

scholarly journals Types of Interaction in Online Discussion Forums: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuheir Khlaif ◽  
Hamid Nadiruzzaman ◽  
Kyungbin Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Midwestern University

The purpose of this paper is to identify the types of students’ interaction, as well as their discussion patterns in an online course. The study took place in a large Midwestern University and 17 graduate students participated in the study. The primary data was obtained from students’ discussion forum postings. The researchers used both qualitative and quantitative approaches to describe and analyze the types of discussion and interaction. The researchers developed a coding scheme based on theories and models. The findings of the study reveal that computer mediated communication (CMC) has a positive potential to increase interaction among students. Furthermore, the findings confirm the effectiveness of asynchronous online environment in supporting online learning community. Participants were engaged in social interaction to build their knowledge. This study recommends two-way interaction for achieving sustainable discussion and promoting higher level of interaction.

scholarly journals An imagined community of practice: Online discourse among wheelchair users

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie E. Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Computer Mediated

People with disabilities often live in local communities primarily made up of people without disabilities: in the absence of a geographic community of people with disabilities, the internet becomes a valuable tool for connecting individuals across both local and global contexts. The power of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to allow individuals to interact both locally and globally has been well-studied in linguistics (e. g. Baron 2008; Page 2012), and this work has included the discourse of e-health (e. g. Hamilton 1998; Locher 2006, 2013) and the online discourse of people with disabilities (Al Zidjaly 2011, 2015). Less research has been done, however, on the implications of online discourse for understanding people with disabilities as a linguistic community.This paper argues that the community of people with disabilities can be viewed from a linguistic perspective as an imagined community of practice: an imagined community, because members recognize their common belonging even if they do not interact locally (Anderson 1983); a community of practice, because members use recognizable, if not identical, disability practices and engage in shared sense-making (Eckert 2006; Eckert/McConnell-Ginet 1992). This understanding of the community of people with disabilities is evidenced in online blogs by wheelchair users.A close discourse analysis of the blog posts shows shared sense-making around disability practices, even though individual bloggers’ practices may vary according to their specific strategies for accommodation. In their posts, the bloggers construct their disability identities in terms of practice and imagine themselves to belong to a community that is distinguished by disability practice. The analysis reveals shared sense-making: in particular, the way that the bloggers position themselves in opposition to the societal discourse that people with disabilities are an inspiration to people without them. In this way, the bloggers demonstrate their membership within an imagined community of practice made up of people with disabilities.

scholarly journals Perception of democracy in computer-mediated communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Jesus Gallego-Arrufat ◽  
Elba Gutiérrez-Santiuste
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Categorization System ◽  
Democratic Principles

We present a case study, the goal of which is to observe how students in Higher Education (N=100) democratize the virtual classroom by assuming responsibility for their learning and that of the other members of the class; participate actively in social, cognitive, and teaching issues; and collaborate by creating a learning community and reflecting individually and as a group. We use a mixed methodology including: (a) content analysis with a categorization system adapted from the Community of Inquiry (CoI) approach and (b) two questionnaires for observing students’ perception of the democratic elements in the virtual classroom. The results show that the students assume democratic principles of responsibility, critique, participation, and collaboration. We observe the role that the professors play in facilitating democratization of the classroom through flexible design of instruction, promotion of social relationships, and direction of the debate toward the learning objectives

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document