Decision-making Tasks in Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)

• Authors: Hanaa Khamis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article reviews the use of decision-making tasks to trigger interaction in CMC. It argues that these tasks promote communicative competence across different CMC modes. It finally reiterates the necessity to include more task-based learning and network-based language learning (NBLT) activities in contexts of English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL).

Keywords

EN

CMC; EFL; interaction; communicative competence

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-17

Contributors

author

Hanaa Khamis

• American University in Cairo (AUC) Alexandria, Egypt

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