Multilingual virtual communities - what's the problem?

The paper discusses methods of enabling bi- or multi-lingual people to communicate effectively with each other within one virtual discussion space. The writer's own experiment in the London University Online Education and Training course is briefly described and compared with other approaches to the use of mixed language groups online for education or outside it. KEYWORDS Bilingual, multilingual, virtual, virtual community, communication

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IADIS
• Authors: Anita Pincas
• Keywords: IADIS 2004, IADIS 2008, Paper Discusses Methods, University Online Education, Virtual Discussion Space