Using Online Forums to Scaffold Oral Participation in Foreign Language Instruction

According to sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition (SLA), participation in communicative practices in the target language is the goal of language learning and a fundamental part of the acquisition process. One role of language instruction is to provide scaffolding that enables lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam Mendelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2010-02-01
Series:L2 Journal
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xs1r2tq