On-line Chatting and the Development of Grammatical Competence

• 作者: ZhaoYing ChenHong DengLihua
• 来源期刊: 中国英语教学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: 英语教学 语法能力 口语能力 多媒体技术
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（3）
• 页码范围: 79
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

<正> Objectives: It is questioned whether network-basedcommunication (NBC) aids the development of grammaticalcompetence in teaching English as a foreign language.Methods: In order to demonstrate that NBC holds similarpotential for the development of grammatical competence asdoes oral interaction, we studied the on-line communicationbetween students of a Chinese university and a Japaneseuniversity mediated by a synchronous NBC software, namelyCUSeeMe. 68 second-year students from the Department of