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How a Web-Based Course Facilitates Acquisition of English for Academic Purposes: ...Belkada, and Toshio Okamoto The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo ABSTRACT This paper describes an experimental study aimed at investigating the learning effectiveness of a Web-based course ...

by Jin Chen, Safia Belkada, Toshio Okamoto
in Volume 08 Number 2, May 2004
News from LLT: ...Belkada, and Toshio Okamoto's "How a Web-Based Course Facilitates Acquisition of English for Academic Purposes" describes an experimental study which investigated the form, function and impact of inte...

by Dorothy Chun, Irene Thompson, Pamela DaGrossa
in Volume 08 Number 2, May 2004
Learner use of holistic language units in multimodal, task-based synchronous computer-mediated communication: ...Belkada and Okamoto (2004) concluded that negotiation occurs in TB-SCMC, but question whether greater “listening comprehension or L2 development” (p. 47) occurs since they found that few syntactic m...

by Karina Collentine
in Volume 13 Number 2, June 2009
Conversations—and negotiated interaction—in text and voice chat rooms: ...Belkada, & Okamoto, 2004). Similarly, Smith (2004) found that task-based text chat engendered negotiation of meaning as well as short-term SLA amongst NNSs of English, especially surrounding attempt...

by Kevin Jepson
in Volume 09 Number 3, September 2005 Special Issue on Technology and Oral Language Development