THE SUMMARY OF COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

a) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum: Electronic Discussion & Foreign Language Learning
This article is about the use of internet for developing the foreign language of students. At first, the boundaries between the cultures and the effect of internet using for overcoming these boundaries are discussed. Again at this part, the case study analyzing the effects of using internet forums on the language learning is introduced briefly. After that some different points of views about emails and key pals are analyzed. Then the case study is given in a detailed way. It analyzes the online discussion groups of web site of Le Monde. Before proceeding to the detail of case study, some information about the website is given and the series of exchanges are told. After that the students who are in the case study are introduced and their first messages are shown. Their writings and answers to the native French are investigated. Also the students are divided into groups according to the nationality such as “.The Americans” and their behaviors are described regarding their genders and cultures. Their relationship between the moderators is also given. Lastly, the result of the case study shows that the way in the interrelationship between the culture and genre is present in the discourse of forum practitioners.
b) Internet Audio Communication for Second Language Learning: A Comparative Review Of Six Programs
First of all, the importance and availability of internet in people life is explained. Then some of the projects aiming to meet the foreign language learners and the native speakers are



introduced and evaluated shortly. After that three different kinds of communicative environments offered by SCMAC programs a) instant messaging, b) conferences, c) chat groups are given deeply. Then the purpose of this research is explained as reviewing free widely used SCMAC programs and exploring their potential use for L2 learning. Firstly AOL Instant messenger is introduced. It provides both instant message and conference environment. However it has no video capability and its audio capabilities are limited. Also it offers many chat communities but nothing of interest related to second language learning opportunities have been found in those chat rooms. The second program Yahoo Messenger is explained. It can be used in three different environments: Instant message, Conference, Chat room. Its advantages and drawbacks are discussed. The third program MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger are analyzed in a detailed way. The last two programs Paltalk and Ivisit are introduced and evaluated by the SCMAC criteria’s. At the last part the ways of matching software to L2 learners needs’ and preferences’ are investigated