Publications

Publication details [#40004]

Itakura, Hiroko. 2004. Changing cultural stereotypes through e-mail assisted foreign language learning. System 32 (1) : 37–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural constraint | e-mail communication | foreign language acquisition | stereotype

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines how cultural stereotypes are constructed, changed or dismissed in a collaborative intercultural e-mail project between Hong Kong students, acquiring Japanese at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and native Japanese speakers at Kagoshima University.