AN ACTIVITY THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON STUDENT-REPORTED CONTRADICTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOLLABORATION

This process-oriented study focuses on contradictions that emerged in a WebCT bulletin board collaboration among English learners from Japan, Mexico and Russia, and explains them from the perspective of activity theory (Leont’ev, 1978, 1981; Engeström, 1987, 1999). The study identified a) two intra...

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Main Author: Olga K. Basharina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii 2007-02-01
Series:Language Learning and Technology
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Online Access:http://llt.msu.edu/vol11num2/pdf/basharina.pdf