International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


synchronous

Genres of online learning discourse: From learning website to e-lesson

The article aims at the substantiation, definition and genre characteristics of a new sphere of Internet communication – learning online discourse, which is becoming increasingly important in modern educational practice due to various social processes and technological development of society, but has not yet become the subject of linguistic and genre analysis. The research is based on observation and comparison of various genres emerging in online learning and illustrated by the online discourse on studying foreign languages.

Web Lecture as an Oral Internet Genre

This article is devoted to the analyses of web lecture as a new genre of the Internet communication with growing popularity. Investigations of oral Internet genres are at their beginning, which implies the actuality of linguistic view especially on this genre type at a moment. The aim of the analysis is the genre characteristics of web lecture according to my Internet genre model, which includes media, pragmatic, structural and stylistic genre features.