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Expanding Discourse Options Through Computer‐Mediated Communication: Guiding Learners Toward Autonomy
Author(s) -
Abraham Lee B.,
Williams Lawrence
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2011.01154.x
Subject(s) - affordance , autonomy , discourse analysis , lifelong learning , computer mediated communication , component (thermodynamics) , pedagogy , discourse community , sociology , linguistics , psychology , computer science , political science , world wide web , cognitive psychology , the internet , philosophy , physics , law , thermodynamics
This article proposes a multiliteracies‐based pedagogical framework for the analysis of computer‐mediated discourse ( CMD ) in order to give students increased access to expanded discourse options that are available in online communication environments and communities (i.e., beyond the classroom). Through the analysis of excerpts and a corpus of F rench and S panish electronic discourse, we illustrate how this framework can promote autonomous, lifelong participation and learning emphasized by the Communities component of the National Standards. Such an analysis allows students and instructors to explore similarities and divergences within and among different types of CMD and, by extension, more traditional types of discourse that are all shaped by technical and social affordances and constraints.