Developing intercultural communicative competence through online exchanges

CALICO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 392-419

  Chun, Dorothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous Fo rums; Intercultural Communicative Competence; Pragmatic Competence; Synchronous Text Chat; Telecollaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044801573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11139/cj.28.2.392-419     Document Type: Article

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