‘Community’, semiotic flows, andmediated contribution to activity  

Oleh:

Thorne, Steven L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Teaching: The International Abstracting Journal for Language Teachers and Applied Linguistics (ada di PROQUEST th. 2002 - ) vol. 42 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 81-94.
Fulltext: 2009.1.81-94.pdf (114.57KB)

Isi artikel

This article begins with an overview and problematization of the term COMMUNITY through a brief assessment of its history, diverse uses, core attributes, heterogeneous elements, and collocational companions. Following this, I describe demographics and processes associated with collective engagement in digitally mediated environments. Utilizing select alternatives to the term ‘community’ and incorporating the cultural-historical notions of MEDIATION and ACTIVITY, I then present research describing exogenous influences affecting educational uses of technology in L2 settings, the use of instant messaging and blogging for out-of-class FL interaction at the secondary school level, and a pedagogically focused example of a remixing text posted to an online fan fiction website. I conclude by proposing BRIDGING ACTIVITIES as an approach for connecting the emergent logics of digital vernaculars with the analytics of formal schooling.

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