Videoconferencing in a language learning application

McAndrew, Patrick; Foubister, Sandra P.; Mayes, Terry

doi:10.1016/0953-5438(96)01028-4

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“…Similar to the findings of previous research (McAndrew et al, 1996;Bondareva & Bouwhuis, 2004;Lamy & Flewitt, 2011) eye-contact was mostly believed to be unattainable in DVC, at least with the technology that was available to the participants at the time. Participants preferred looking at the screen, finding it more natural, as they would miss their interlocutors' visual feedback if they only looked at the camera.…”

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Multimodal language learner interactions via desktop videoconferencing within a framework of social presence: Gaze

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2013

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Desktop videoconferencing (DVC) offers many opportunities for language learning through its multimodal features. However, it also brings some challenges such as gaze and mutual gaze, that is, eye-contact. This paper reports some of the findings of a PhD study investigating social presence in DVC interactions of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher trainees. The case study approach involved the exploration of online interactions of five cases (pairs) within an interpretivist paradigm. Data collection included interviews, questionnaires and analysis of DVC recordings. The study emphasizes the importance of eye-contact in online multimodal communication to facilitate the establishment of social presence. Five types of gaze that were observed in learner interactions and participants' perspectives on eye-contact are reported. The conclusions include technical suggestions for the use of a webcam as well as pedagogical implications of online video interaction.

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Multimodal language learner interactions via desktop videoconferencing within a framework of social presence: Gaze

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2013

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“…Immediacy refers to the feeling of being physically close to one's partner. As McAndrew, Foubister, and Mayes (1996) have pointed out, physical barriers are partly removed thanks to videoconferencing, which seems to foster learner motivation to speak in the second language. It also facilitates the process of contextualization through the use of verbal and non-verbal signs by interlocutors, which link what is said at a particular moment and in a given place to their knowledge of the world, thus facilitating their engagement in the conversation.…”

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The Impact of the Webcam on an Online L2 Interaction

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Cohen

2014

The Canadian Modern Language Review

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It is intuitively felt that visual cues should enhance online communication, and this experimental study aims to test this prediction by exploring the value provided by a webcam in an online L2 pedagogical teacher-to learner interaction. A total of 40 French undergraduate students with a B2 level in English were asked to describe in English four previously unseen photographs to a native English-speaking teacher of EFL via Skype, a free web-based videoconferencing tool, during a 10-minute interaction. Twenty students were assigned to the videoconferencing condition and 20 to the audioconferencing condition. All 40 interactions were recorded using dynamic screen capture software and were analyzed with ELAN, a sound and video annotation tool. Participants' perceptions of the online interaction are first compared with regard to the issues of social presence and their understanding and appreciation of the online interaction, using data gathered from a post-task questionnaire. The study then explores whether seeing the interlocutor's image impacts on the patterns of these synchronous exchanges and on the word search episodes. Results indicated that the impact of the webcam on the online pedagogical interaction was not as critical as had been predicted.

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“…For example, VMC is being used in distance education (Fels and Weiss, 2000;Knowles and Dillon, 1996;McAndrew et al, 1996;Robinson, 1993), telemedicine (Furnace et al, 1996;Reiss et al, 1996;Tröster et al, 1995;) and telepsychiatry (Manning et al, 2000) and to facilitate group meetings in the research and business sectors (Carletta et al, 2000;O'Conaill et al, 1993;O'Conaill and Whittaker, 1997). Much of the research in this area has focused upon the visual channel of communication, with some debate occurring over the advantages of adding a visual channel in mediated communication (e.g.…”

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Audio channel constraints in video-mediated communication

Sanford

Anderson

Mullin

2004

Interacting with Computers

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This study investigated the effects of two types of audio channels upon the effectiveness of task-based interactions in a video-mediated context (VMC). Forty undergraduates completed a collaborative task (The Map Task) using either a full or half-duplex audio channel. Their performance was compared to face-to-face interactions, taken from the Human Communication Research Centre corpus of Map Task Dialogues. Effects of varying the audio channel were explored by comparing task performance, patterns of speech, and establishment of mutual understanding. Users of the full-duplex VMC made insufficient allowance for the VMC context; they completed the task less accurately than face-to-face participants, and interrupted each other more frequently than other participants. Participants in the half-duplex VMC however performed as well as face-to-face participants. They made sensible adaptations to the constraints imposed by the half-duplex VMC context, producing longer dialogues, with more explicit turn-taking management, and taking greater care in establishing mutual knowledge

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Videoconferencing in a language learning application

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 publications

Multimodal language learner interactions via desktop videoconferencing within a framework of social presence: Gaze

Multimodal language learner interactions via desktop videoconferencing within a framework of social presence: Gaze

The Impact of the Webcam on an Online L2 Interaction

Audio channel constraints in video-mediated communication

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