Computer mediated communication

Video conferencing is an example of asynchronous communication.

• True

• False

State and briefly describe one advantage of CMC.

__________ provided people with an alternative way to express their emotions, feelings, and mood changes to others in restricted communication channels such as text-based ones.

Provide a possible interpretation of the following sentence:

What a great day! 😞

Human brain processes emoticons and faces in the same way.

• True

• False

What is a corpus?

• a large collection texts that have

  been gathered in electronic or paper form for a specific purpose

• a large collection of authentic texts that have

  been gathered in electronic form according to

  a specific set of criteria

• a large collection of authentic texts that have

  been gathered in electronic or paper form according to

  a specific set of criteria

• a random collection texts that have

  been gathered in electronic or paper form

The British National Corpus is an example of

• Learner corpus

• Generalised corpus

• Speacialised corpus

_______ are all the instances of a word or phrase in a corpus.

Describe one benefit of CMC for language learning.