scholarly journals La fanfiction et le FLE : une manière d’enrichir l’enseignement de la littérature à l’Université ?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Mattias Aronsson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Collaborative Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

The article presents a project where the concept of fanfiction is introduced in a Francophone literature course taught at Dalarna University (Sweden). The project presented in this study is based on the idea of online communities as an informal learning environment. The corpus consists of material gathered during four semesters, when the fanfiction project was introduced as a course assignment to undergraduate students of contemporary Francophone literature. The results indicate that the use of fanfiction in the University’s formalized learning environment creates some challenges. For instance, the fundamental online principle of anonymity and the use of English as the lingua franca of web-based communities cannot be easily transferred to an academic course where French is the target language – and where the students’ achievements must be assessed and graded by the teacher at the end of the term. Nonetheless, the overall conclusion of the project is positive. In order to write a fanfiction story based on an existing literary work, the students had to appropriate the original oeuvre; in the sense of incorporating it and making it their own. The work process was partly based on the principle of interaction. Thus, a collaborative learning environment was created, where students constructed knowledge and negotiated meaning together – a type of learning very much rooted in the sociocultural tradition.  

scholarly journals The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Per Urlaub ◽  
Joseph Kautz
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Collaborative Learning Environment ◽  
Digital Language

The Stanford Non-Native Rapper Contest is an annual event organized bythe Digital Language Lab at Stanford University. Every year, languageinstructors encourage undergraduate learners to engage in a creativeproject: learners receive the opportunity to compose rap music, writelyrics in the target language, produce videos, and share their clips via aYouTube channel. The response from undergraduate students has beenpositive: since the contest’s inception in 2008, almost 50 learners of worldlanguages and of less-commonly taught languages have participated, andtheir clips have been viewed by more than 30,000 internet users in lessthan three years. The first part of this article describes the evolution of theproject and outlines the roles of the language lab facilities and its staffmembers in organizing this collaborative learning environment. Thesecond part of the article will contextualize Stanford’s Non-Native RapperContest within current theoretical debates that relate to the acquisition oftranscultural competences and to alternative assessment in collegiatelanguage learning environments.

scholarly journals EMERGENCE OF INFORMAL LEARNING SPACE IN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: A COMPARATIVE SCENARIO IN THE CONTEXT OF KHULNA CITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Sourav ◽  
◽  
D. Afroz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

Ancient education system was developed from a semi-outdoor environment. While developing the learning spaces it developed into indoor environment to ensure controlled environment, focus, discipline and compactness. These properties lead to formal education and formal learning space which replaced the informal learning environment. Formal learning space usually drive students towards a single expertise or knowledge. The limitations and boredom of formal education often causes depression and annoy towards education that result in limited learning and one-sided education. This research indicates the role of “informal learning environment” which helps university students to achieve multi-disciplinary knowledge through a simple, contextual and informal way. To establish the emergence, we tried to do a quantitative analysis among the students studying different universities in Khulna city. We have tried to understand the perspective of the students whether they feel the importance of informal learning or not in their daily life. While working on this paper, we have experienced unique scenario for each university but by any means Khulna University and Khulna University of Engineering & Technology serves their student the environment where students can meet and share knowledge with their natural flow of gossiping with food or drinks while Northern University of Business & technology and North-Western University have shown different scenario.

scholarly journals Sketching as a Tool to Measure Concept Application in an Informal Learning Environment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Morris ◽  
Charlotte Coffman ◽  
Fran Kozen ◽  
Katherine Dao ◽  
Denise Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Concept Application ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

Work-Based Mobile Learning Environments

2012 ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Attwell
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Learning At Work ◽  
Mobile Learning Environment

This paper examines the idea of a Work Oriented Mobile Learning Environment (WOMBLE) and considers the potential affordances of mobile devices for supporting developmental and informal learning in the workplace. The authors look at the nature and pedagogy of work-based learning and how technologies are being used in the workplace for informal learning. The paper examines the nature of Work Process Knowledge and how individuals are shaping or appropriating technologies, often developed or designed for different purposes, for social learning at work. The paper goes on to describe three different use cases for a Work Oriented Mobile Learning Environment. The final section of the paper considers how the idea of the WOMBLE can contribute to a socio-cultural ecology for learning, and the interplay of agency, cultural practices, and structures within mobile work-based learning.

‘Practice Story Exchanges’ and their Creative Invitation to Informal Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Peter Willis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

This is a study of how members of a collaborative group interested in promoting convivial civilisation in human society took up exchanging practice stories – stories of doing something or seeing something done as examples of convivial backyard civilisation – in order tacitly to create an informal learning environment where practices of such a convivial backyard civilisation could seem normal, desirable and do-able. Practice story exchanges were an attempt to ‘tell the truth but tell it slant’ as Emily Dickenson put it, to work tentatively and collaboratively avoiding too much direct confrontation and rigid debate. This paper talks of the work of creating conviviality to redress an over emphasis on productivity in society; of the nature and importance of informal learning and its links with story exchanges and how this is pursued in the work of the Australian Centre for Convivial Backyard Civilisation (ACCBC).

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