UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE
Question and answer portals allow users to post and answer questions on a number of subjects, among which languages, and constitute a perfect embodiment of the tenets of social media. Although these have been the subject of a rather vast literature in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Questi...
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| description | Question and answer portals allow users to post and answer questions on a number of subjects, among which languages, and constitute a perfect embodiment of the tenets of social media. Although these have been the subject of a rather vast literature in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Question and Answer (Q&A) portals have so far been scarcely considered by these studies. This paper aims to contribute to fill this gap and lay groundwork in this area by working out a taxonomy of questions, in order to find out which language-related topics are dealt with in such venues. The authors collected a data set of 800 questions from the Languages section of the Italian version of the Yahoo! Answer portal and defined a taxonomy of question types and categories. The study highlights that the majority of such questions concern linguistic support, thus confirming that Q&A portals can be a source of informal language learning and deserve the attention of research in this field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11de3f03c3474ab98f51a2db14036e872022-12-22T04:08:26ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872018-12-0151010.13135/2384-8987/2639UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTESimone TorsaniGiuliana Dettori0CNRQuestion and answer portals allow users to post and answer questions on a number of subjects, among which languages, and constitute a perfect embodiment of the tenets of social media. Although these have been the subject of a rather vast literature in the field of Second Language Acquisition, Question and Answer (Q&A) portals have so far been scarcely considered by these studies. This paper aims to contribute to fill this gap and lay groundwork in this area by working out a taxonomy of questions, in order to find out which language-related topics are dealt with in such venues. The authors collected a data set of 800 questions from the Languages section of the Italian version of the Yahoo! Answer portal and defined a taxonomy of question types and categories. The study highlights that the majority of such questions concern linguistic support, thus confirming that Q&A portals can be a source of informal language learning and deserve the attention of research in this field.https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2639Question and answerInformal online learningSocial mediaLanguage learning |
| spellingShingle | Simone Torsani Giuliana Dettori UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE RiCognizioni Question and answer Informal online learning Social media Language learning |
| title | UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE |
| title_full | UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE |
| title_fullStr | UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE |
| title_full_unstemmed | UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE |
| title_short | UNA TASSONOMIA DELLE DOMANDE DI ARGOMENTO LINGUISTICO NEI PORTALI DI DOMANDE E RISPOSTE |
| title_sort | una tassonomia delle domande di argomento linguistico nei portali di domande e risposte |
| topic | Question and answer Informal online learning Social media Language learning |
| url | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/2639 |
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