You are inside a small building used by travelers . . . You see a conference room with chairs and tables which can be rearranged as needed. A tape recorder sits on a table . . . . Dancar, Marsha, Bill Powers, Judi, and John-FR are standing here. You sense that Judi is looking for you in the Athens Room.
Students see their own culture as more important.
Even so, the low-context environment can be disorienting, as the medium tends to overwhelm the message at first. And yet a substantive discussion could be discerned, an international comparison of TESL-TEFL situations. A discussion list or listserv, a mostly automated program in a host computer or server, creates an electronic network which is, moreover, a discourse community for people anywhere in the world with an e-mail address and an interest in the topic of discussion. As examples, Chubu University hosts , for discussions of FLT in Japan, yet L2 teachers abroad do join in. They also start separate mailing lists for those more deeply involved, such as officers or organizers of their annual conferences.