1. A Preliminary Study on the Application of ELT Internet Chatrooms Badi Jiun-ren Chen *Sylvia Min-lee Li St. Paul’s High School, Kaohsiung badi@mail.mcsh.kh.edu.tw badi@mail.mcsh.kh.edu.tw *Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High School cubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw cubby@cc.nsysu.edu.tw

2. Some Issues about ELT Internet Chatrooms What is an ELT Internet chatroom? Why do we use ELT Internet chatrooms? How do we use ELT Internet chatrooms? What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? --5

3. What is an ELT Internet Chatroom?

4. Why do we use ELT Internet Chatrooms? The nature of language learning Real linguistic experiences(Sierra 1999) Communicative competence (Hyme 1970s) Students ’ learning motivation

5. How do we use ELT Internet Chatrooms? Course Design (Swimming training) Visual Campus Topic Discussion among students of different schools or in the same class

6. What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? Research Design Methodology: CA (Sacks et al. 1974)  Qualitative analysis  Quantitative analysis Subjects  Background: N=15; Age=14 Topic

7. Data Collection & Processing

8. What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? Findings Qualitatively  Netiquette Training  English Typing Speed Training  The Restriction of the Number of Interlocutors in Chatrooms  Conversation Skill Training 2

9. What are the problems with the application of ELT Internet chatrooms? Quantitatively

10. Analytical Results

11. Implications The implications to ELT Internet Chatrooms Netiquette Training English Typing Speed Training The Restriction of the Number of Interlocutors in Chatrooms Conversation Skill Training Issues for Further Investigation The Relation between the Number of Interlocutors and the Use of ELT Internet Chatrooms The Use of Conversational Turns as an Evaluation Tool for Communicative Competence Moderating Multiparty Talks in ELT Chatrooms