Computer-Mediated Negotiation Across Borders

The Author: Carolin Fuchs is Research Scholar in the Department of French at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the Institut für Anglistik at the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen. Additionally, she holds an M.A. in TESOL and a Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her primary research interests include synchronous and asynchronous CMC-based language teaching and learning, electronic literacies, corpus linguistics, socio-cultural theory, dynamic assessment, intercultural learning, and electronic portfolios in language teaching and teacher education.

• Contents: Approaching the Research Niche – Reviewing CMC in Language Learning – Revisiting Cooperative Language Learning and Communicative Language Teaching, and Discussing Technology in Teacher Education – Laying out the Research Map – Contextualizing the Study: «CMC MIIS-Giessen» – Presenting the Quantitative and Qualitative Results of the Study – Analyzing the Groups’ (Topic) Negotiation in Email and Chat Transcripts – Discussing Paticipants’ Perspectives on CMC-Based Challenges – Revisiting the Key Principles of Negotiation and Calling for Further Research.