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Publication details [#66138]

Álvarez Valencia, José Aldemar and Alejandro Fernández Benavides. 2019. Using social networking sites for language learning to develop intercultural competence in language education programs. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 12 (1) : 23–42.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative competence | computer communication system | foreign language acquisition | intercultural communication | social network | student | university | website
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores the manners a social networking site for language learning (SNSLL), Livemocha, raises or impedes intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Partakers were second-year students of an English class in a Colombian university.