Giving corrective feedback (CF) is an essential part of the teaching and learning process, and the way it should beneficially be done has been the focus of attention for numerous researchers especially when traditional ways of CF provision are not possible, particularly in rare situations such as outbreaks of diseases. This study investigated how different ways of giving feedback; namely, throu...

Phatic communication refers to small talks that aim form ties of personal union between people or the speakers. Especially in this digital age, phatic is somehow still used. This research aims uncover kinds and functions used by Indonesian students who have been doing online classes through Facebook, responding their classmates’ material presentations, having discussions comment column. current...

Newsgroups and online discussion boards have long been used to supplement class discussions. We describe a study comparing the use of two systems, WebAnn and EPost, to support class discussion of technical papers in a graduate course. WebAnn is a shared annotation system that supports anchored discussions on web pages, and allows users to easily associate comments with a particular paragraph, p...