Christine Fourie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christine Fourie is involved.
Articles
2016 Academic acculturation in language learning through Facebook: Passing the turning points English Text Construction 9:2, pp. 292–316 | Article
Due to students’ growing networking needs, educational institutions are increasingly looking for tools to bolster peer communication and information exchange. These tools, furthermore, need to facilitate students’ adaptation to the new academic culture and support their academic acculturation.… read more
2015 Lowering the threshold for online learning with Facebook: A South African pilot study Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 4:2, pp. 154–173 | Article
Students’ understanding of their own learning needs can improve, if they can be made more aware of their own learning processes by supporting their metacognitive development. Research has shown that membership of online communities can positively contribute to the social acculturation process of… read more