Computer-Mediated Communication for Course Delivery and Teaching Materials Development: A Case Study

Abstract

This paper describes a university English course which uses computer-mediated communication CMC for the dual-purpose of providing lesson materials online and collecting student written output in the form of a news-based blog to develop a learner corpus. Comments on the blog from Japanese university students form the basis of a learner corpus, which is analysed with reference to native speaker norms, allowing needs to be identified and addressed in subsequent materials. The paper discusses CMC as a repository of teaching materials and as a resource to develop teaching materials.