COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

Internet is the utmost magic of the technology .You can almost do whatever you want via internet .The most important aspect of internet is communication. The first example that comes to our mind as the communication aspect of internet is e-mail & instant messaging .Any people from any part of the world can talk to each via internet , e-mail .Internet gives the opportunity to the students to speak and listen to the native speakers of the language which otherwise they lack in a learning process without internet .For this use of the internet there have been a lot of programs and some of them were successful and some were not.and one of them is eTandemEuropa .In this program in which telephone &internet audio used by the different native speakers .Recently there have been programs that you can see and talk to the other people via internet .So this is a really important thing for L2 learners as it enables them to speak language in a authentic context .There are three different communication types: a) Instant messaging b) conferences c)chat groups .In these programs both text and audio is used.
There are kind of programs that L2 students can use as an authentic material such as: AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Windows Messenger, PalTalk, Ivisit.