Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsSocial Interactions for Academic Purposes in Literature Classes for Non English SpeakersAi Chun YenProblem statement: This study reports how Learning Communities (LCs) and Online Learning Communities (OLCs) can improve Taiwanese EFL students’ lack of Social Interactions (SIs) and acdemic skills in literature classes (Y1, N = 40) by involving freshmen in a social process that encourages student-student and student-instructor discussion, interpretation, production and negotiation. Approach: The data collected from the database of the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 16 Jul 2012 · 7,276 accessesView PDFCite