For my final project in this class I would like to research some of the effects of live chatting on students' learning. I think that many teahcers are integrating chats into their classes as a way to get students using language for a meaningful, communicative purpose and to increase their participation. Most foreign language teachers seem to believe that chats can make students more comfortable using the TL by removing the face-to-face factor.
However, I know from experience that the stress of forced communication can really raise a student's affective filter and make communication even more difficult. I am interested to what degree this may or may not be true for other language learners that may prefer face-to-face communication as I do. So, my tentative research questions are:
1. What effect does chatting have on learners' affective filters. What are the specific causes for the comfort/discomfort students feel.
2. What does chatting provide for learner's that face-to-face communication does not. What does chatting provide for learner's that asynchronous communication does not?
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I think your questions are taking shape. Feel free to chat with me and we can try to fine tune!
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hey kennedy! i think it would be neat for you to look at this topic simply because it is something that we are getting to experience first hand and we are getting to see some of the positives and negatives of these types of chats. i look forward to seeing what you find!
Very interesting! We are doing almost the same thing. I want to look at how text-chat affect oral and written production. Maybe we can share some ideas and look at similar articles.
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