Second Language Use, Socialization, and Learning in Internet Interest Communities and Online Gaming

By S. Thorne, Rebecca W. Black, Julie M. Sykes. 2009

506 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

How researchers see this paper

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In Literature and Literary Theory

1. K. Rajagopalan
2. Liss Kerstin Sylvén
3. M. Gu
4. Chun Lai
5. Jure Leskovec
6. Pia Sundqvist

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. M. Gu
2. Chun Lai
3. K. Rajagopalan
4. Jure Leskovec

Citations in the corpus

• From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews (2013, background): “‘Expertise’ has been studied from the perspective of linguistic development [34], for example in the context of second-language acquisition [8, 36].”
• Situated Learning through Social Networking Communities: The Development of Joint Enterprise, Mutual Engagement, and a Shared Repertoire. (2011, unknown): “grammatically accurate speech, language socialization is a model of language development which suggests that interaction within speech communities and engagement with language in socially and pragmatically appropriate ways are essential to L2 development (Garrett, 2008; Thorne et al., 2009).”
• Self-regulated out-of-class language learning with technology (2011, background): “…of instructional and authentic language learning materials and learning support, construction of and exposure to engaging learning experience and environments, and facilitation of the construction of positive learner identities, to name just a few (Thorne, Black & Sykes, 2009; Zhao & Lai, 2007).”
• The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “A CDS is not reality per se but, as Checkland and Poulter (2006: 151), explain, systems are “social constructs”, not “maps” of any kind of “real territory”.”
• Gaming as extramural English L2 learning and L2 proficiency among young learners* (2012, background): “Digital gaming as a potential arena for language learning in particular has also been in focus (see, e.g., deHaan, Reed, & Kuwada, 2010; Gee, 2007; Piirainen-Marsh & Tainio, 2009; Rankin, Gold, & Gooch, 2006; Thorne, Black, & Sykes, 2009).”