Linguistic Studies Students and St. Olaf Faculty
Save the date for our first 2009 Linguistic Studies Lecture
“Making foreign language-learning click: A case study of Norwegian at a distance"
April 16, 2009
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
RNS 150
In this lecture, Prof. Kari Lie will discuss her doctoral research on the link between the fields of distance education and foreign language interaction and its impact on theories of Second Language Acquisition. Many researchers believe that communication is vital for both foreign language and distance education learning. However, some of the most recent studies on interaction have questioned whether more communication and interaction is better, revealing that certain types of interactions are possibly more effective than others. To test this assumption, Lie tracked how learners spent time in an online course and then investigated the relationship of these tasks to learner outcomes.
