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Tongues untied
• What is “live chat”? • Who uses live chat?• Why use live chat?
2Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat and learning…what?– Linguistic pragmatics – Chatiquette – Unrestricted context
3Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat in the language classroom– CALL computer assisted – Integrating the sociolinguistic– Engaging the communicative– Acquiring fluency
4Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue• Live chat’s eight C’s
– Convenience – Cost– Currency– Context– Creativity– Communicative competence– Cognition– Computer skills
– c5Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue: Eight “C”s for ease
• Live chat’s ease: First of 8 C’s
• Convenience– To the institution– To the instructor– To students
6Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue• Live chat: 8 C’s• Cost
– Institutional– Instructional– Material
7Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat: 8 C’s• Currency
– Of subject matter– Of interaction– Of teachable/learnable moments
8Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat: 8 C’s• Context
– Unrestricted– Relaxed– Timely– Relevant
9Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat: 8 C’s • Creativity
– Comfort breeds the creative• In teaching • In collaborating• In learning
10Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue• Live chat: 8 C’s• Communicative competence
– Linguistically speaking• Phonology, morphology/syntax, vocabulary, discourse
– Pragmatically speaking• Functions, variations, interactions, cultures
11Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue• Live chat: 8 C’s• Cognition
– Recognizing the meaningful v. the meaningless• the notions of “possible words”, “possible sounds”,
possible structures”
– Making conscious and then automatic choices– Noticing context
• Linguistic, social, cultural
– Evaluating, assessing
12Katherine Watson, Coastline DL
Untying the tongue
• Live chat: 8 C’s • Computer skills
– Keyboarding– ‘net surfing– Evaluation of sources and resources
13Katherine Watson, Coastline DL