Learning Language and Culture Via Public Internet Discussion Forums

Public Internet discussion forums offer opportunities for intercultural interaction in many languages on a vast range of topics, but are often overlooked by language educators in favour of purpose-built exchanges between learners. The book investigates this untapped pedagogical potential.

Public Internet discussion forums offer opportunities for intercultural interaction in many languages on a vast range of topics, but are often overlooked by language educators in favour of purpose-built exchanges between learners. The book investigates this untapped pedagogical potential.

BARBARA E. HANNA teaches at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, where she is Senior Lecturer in French. She is particularly interested in teaching French as intercultural communication and has published in the fields of computer mediated communication, intercultural narratives and intercultural communication.

JULIANA de NOOY is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, Australia. She teaches across the fields of French language, intercultural communication, and cultural studies, and her research projects focus on questions of identity and difference as they arise in these disciplines.