Publications

Publication details [#51712]

Jenks, Christopher Joseph. 2009. Getting acquainted in Skypecasts: aspects of social organization in online chat rooms. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 19 (1) : 26–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | internet | language acquisition | language use | lingua franca

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study exlores how Skypecasts, a new voice-based computer-mediated communication tool, is worldwide deployed as forum to learn and use English as a lingua franca, focusing on the social-interactional practice of getting acquainted.