[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-596045-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":81,"doc-detail-596045-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":74,"head_meta":76,"extra_data":78,"updated_unix":80},105,"en","testing-the-waters-developing-interlanguage-pragmatics-through-exploration-experimentation-and-participation-in-online-communities","Testing the Waters - Developing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Exploration, Experimentation, and Participation in Online Communities","","This study presents an innovative approach to developing interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) by training university-level English language learners to participate in online participatory cultures and analyzing their participation through communities of practice. Learners used the layout and practices of a social news and discussion site (Reddit), posting weekly in interest-based forums. Interaction quality and quantity were measured via engagement metrics, while questionnaires and follow-up interviews examined learner perceptions of language and cyberpragmatics. Results show difficulty achieving high interaction levels, alongside diverse benefits for ILP development.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/","Research & Report",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/testing-the-waters-developing-interlanguage-pragmatics-through-exploration-experimentation-and-participation-in-online-communities/596045/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/testing-the-waters-developing-interlanguage-pragmatics-through-exploration-experimentation-and-participation-in-online-communities/596045.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"Anna Hans","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-01","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",8,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"What is the main goal of the study?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"The study aims to develop learners’ interlanguage pragmatics by training them to participate in online communities and examining participation through communities of practice.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"How were participants trained and what did they do online?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"Participants, university-level English learners in the United States, were trained on Reddit’s layout and practices and then assigned weekly postings in forums aligned with their interests.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"How were online interaction and learner perceptions measured?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"Engagement metrics such as upvotes and responses measured interaction quantity and quality, while post-task questionnaires and follow-up interviews explored learner perceptions of language use and cyberpragmatics.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},596045,1792165359,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,88,92,96,101,106,111,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":85,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":89,"show_sort_weight":90,"slug":91},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":97,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":102,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":107,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":131},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":55,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":127,"language":139,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144,"preview_page_count":4},5909892332657,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_994ba38a5ba835b3df7d355c54d3ed8d","calico journal (online) issn 2056–9017  \nArticle  \nTesting the Waters: Developing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Exploration, Experimentation, and Participation in Online Communities  \nEllen Yeh 1 and Nicholas Swinehart2  \nAbstract  \nThis study presents an innovative approach to developing interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) by training students to engage in online participatory cultures and analyzing their participation through the lens of communities of practice. Participants were university-level English language learners studying in the United States who were trained on the basic layout and practices ofa social news and discussion site (Reddit), then assigned weekly postings within forums based on their individual interests. Social media engagement metrics (upvotes and responses) were used to measure and observe the quantity and quality of online interaction, and post-task questionnaires and follow-up interviews investigated learner perceptions about the language and cyberpragmatics in the online communities they encountered. Quantitative results show that participants struggled to achieve high levels of interaction with other users, but qualitative results indicate a wide range of potential benefits for ILP exploration and development. The findings and implications of this study contribute towards best practices in developing strategies for ILP in online spaces and cyberpragmatic awareness among language learners, enabling them to reach higher levels of participation in online communities.  \nKeywords: communities of practice; cyberpragmatics; interlanguage pragmatics; online affinity spaces; Reddit.  \nAffiliations  \n1Columbia College Chicago, USA.  \n[email: eyeh@colum.edu](email: eyeh@colum.edu)  \n[2](2University of Chicago)[University of Chicago](2University of Chicago), USA.  \nemail: [nswinehart@uchicago.edu](nswinehart@uchicago.edu)  \ncalico journal vol 37.1 2020 66–84 [https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.38529](https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.38529)  \n©2020, equinox publishing   \nEllen Yeh and Nicholas Swinehart 67  \nIntroduction  \nWhile popular non-academic theories maintain that the “one simple trick”to learning a language is to simply use it every day, in reality learners can struggle to find opportunities for meaningful communication in the target language. Even international students studying in the United States, who on the surface are immersed in an English-speaking world, can often find themselves isolated with few opportunities to use English socially outside the classroom (Almon, 2014; Núñez, Rios-Aguilar, Kanno, & Flores, 2016). Online communities present one venue for language learners to increase target-language communication and participation, allowing individuals to build relationships by interacting in a virtual space (Moore & Chuang, 2017). In language learning, online communities have been applied as spaces for language and literacy pedagogies, such as using online fan fiction to further motivate CMC language instruction (Sauro, 2017) and emphasizing digital discourses associated with the use of hashtags on social media and digital games (Sykes, 2019). Online communities remove many of the constraints that learners may encounter due to geographic location, lack of social connections, and affective factors such as shyness or anxiety. They are asynchronous, are asynchronous and therefore can be accessed repeatedly and at anytime. In addition, learners can spend more time inconspicuously observing the behavior of others than they can in physical environments. They are typically built around users’ shared interests (i.e., online affinity spaces), which can lead to higher motivation and engagement (Dörnyei, Csizér, & Németh, 2006). However, these online spaces have an overlapping matrix of linguistic and cultural norms and practices; some are common across the Internet (e.g., memes and trolling), some are unique to the platform where the community is hosted (e.g., Tumblr or Facebook), and some are unique to the particular","cbCaibMYw9zXMJsm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibMYw9zXMJsm","pdf",442749,"English","# Introduction\n## Literature Review\n### Cyberpragmatics","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study aims to develop learners’ interlanguage pragmatics by training them to participate in online communities and examining participation through communities of practice.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants trained and what did they do online?\",\"answer\":\"Participants, university-level English learners in the United States, were trained on Reddit’s layout and practices and then assigned weekly postings in forums aligned with their interests.\"},{\"question\":\"How were online interaction and learner perceptions measured?\",\"answer\":\"Engagement metrics such as upvotes and responses measured interaction quantity and quality, while post-task questionnaires and follow-up interviews explored learner perceptions of language use and cyberpragmatics.\"}]","Testing the Waters - Developing Interlanguage Pragmatics through Exploration, Experimentation, and Participation in Online Communities | PDF",1792082338,48]