Collaboration and computer-assisted acquisition of a second language

Delphine Renié (1) , Thierry Chanier (1)

1 LRL - Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage

In the last few years, the community working on Computer Assisted Learning has started considering a different type of learning as an alternative to traditional ones: collaborative learning (or cooperative learning). We are addressing the question of defining how collaboration could be beneficial to a computer environment for language learning. In order to answer that question , we refer to various research fields, such as Applied linguistics, Psychology of Education, Artificial Intelligence and Education. From thereon we propose an application of collaborative learning to one particular domain of the second language: interrogative sentences in French.

Keywords: Computer-assisted instruction; Education -- Data processing; Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Educational technologies; Information and communications technology; Foreign language/ foreign language as teaching language; Education/ Computer-assisted education; Language and literature; learning of pragmatics; interaction; collaboration; second language acquisition; computer-assisted language learning.; computer-assisted language learning

Keywords: Langage et langues -- Etude et enseignement; Enseignement assisté par ordinateur; Nouvelles technologies de l´information et de la communication

Domains: Education

Delphine Renié, Thierry Chanier. Collaboration and computer-assisted acquisition of a second language. Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 1995, 8 (1), pp.3-30. ⟨edutice-00000277⟩