期刊刊名：國立虎尾科技大學學報 　 卷期：31卷3期

篇名出版日期：2013年9月1日

作者：Chi-Yen Chiu,邱智仁

語言：English

關鍵字：Computer-mediated communication, E-mail pal exchange, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) ,網際網路溝通,電子郵件筆友,英語為外國語

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摘要：
This study explored the use of an e-mail pal activity as out-of-class language learning (Benson & Reinders, 2011) in a course of Intermediate English Writing at a national university of science and technology. The students were asked to respond to a questionnaire that examined their perspectives of the e-mail pal activity incorporated into this particular course. The results of the questionnaire revealed that most of the students in this EFL writing class did not feel it difficult to exchange e-mails in English. However, many participants (83%) did concern a lot about grammar and checked for grammar mistakes before sending out a message. Some of the participants (17%) even received help from their foreign e-mail pals who actively offered kindly assistance to correct the students’ writing. During the process of e-mail interactions, a good number of students (71%) had developed friendship with their e-mail pals although so much fewer students found it easy to find a foreign e-mail pal (32%, M=2.98) or to maintain the connections with their e-mail pals (39%, M=3.10). Despite the fact that some students had ever been harassed by their foreign e-mail pals or were asked to send personal photos, a lot of the students still considered it safe to make e-mail pals on the Internet and had learned about different cultures from the e-mail pal exchange activity. In sum, the majority of the students in this class liked the experience of e-mail pal exchanges and would continue to write e-mails to their pals in their own time after the class was finished. The findings of this study had provided some insights into the use of e-mail pal exchanges as out-of-class language learning in an English composition class in Taiwan. Further research is recommended to be conducted to scrutinize and examine the relationship between the technology of computer-mediated communication and the development of learner autonomy for foreign language learners of English (EFL) in Taiwan or other countries.

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