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标题：ESTABLISHING AN EMPIRICAL LINK BETWEEN COMPUTERMEDIATEDCOMMUNICATION (CMC) AND SLA:A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH
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作者：Huifen Lin
期刊名称：Journal of Language Learning Technologies
电子版ISSN：1094-3501
出版年度：2014
卷号：18
期号：3
页码：120-147
出版社：Language Learning & Technology
摘要：Drawing on interactionist and socio-cultural theories, tools provided in computer-mediatedcommunication (CMC) environments have long been considered able to create anenvironment that shares many communicative features with face-to-face communication.Over the past two decades, researchers have employed a variety of strategies to examinethe asserted advantages and possible limitations of learning a second language in such acomputer mediated environment. Despite its seeming appeal to language educators, theliterature on the effectiveness of CMC in SLA is unable to conclusively support itsbenefits. This meta-analysis aims to systematically synthesize findings from (quasi-)experimental studies conducted between 2000-2012 to examine whether there was a linkbetween the use of CMC and second language acquisition (SLA). Results from 59 primarystudies show a positive and medium effect from CMC interventions. Additionally,communication taking place either asynchronously or synchronously does not seem tohave a differential effect on SLA. Furthermore, learners’ proficiency level, interlocutortype, research context and task type were found to be variables that would significantlymoderate the effectiveness of interaction in such an environment. The above results,however, were interpreted as tentative due to the small n-size of some categories ofvariables under comparison.
关键词：Meta-Analysis; Computer-Mediated Communication; Effect Size.