scholarly journals The Predictive Evaluation of Language Learning Tasks

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Zorana Vasiljevic
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Task Selection ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Systematic Procedure ◽  
Learning Tasks

Teachers are often faced with difficulty in choosing appropriate teaching activities for use in their classroom. In selecting suitable materials for their learners, teachers need to be able to analyze any tasks (i.e., their objectives, procedures and intended outcomes) before they are applied in the classroom. This paper will attempt to outline a systematic procedure for predictive task evaluation. This model should help teachers to identify elements in the task design that are likely to affect the accuracy, fluency and complexity of the students’ output before the task is implemented in the classroom and thus help them to make decisions regarding task selection and their sequencing.

scholarly journals A review of MALL: from categories to implementation. The case of Apple’s iPad

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Valentina Morgana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Implementation Practices ◽  
Tablet Device

<p>The use of mobile devices inside and outside formal settings is often associated to innovative practices in the design of language learning activities. This often implies the reconceptualization of language learning tasks and of the role of the teacher in the mobile classroom. In order to investigate current research and practices in secondary and higher education a review of recent studies in the field of MALL has been undertaken with the main aim of identifying main trends, implementation practices and research gaps.</p><p>This paper presents a synthesis of the literature by analysing the four different MALL categories, as presented in Pegrum (2014) and selecting a series of case studies and trends that may be implemented in various educational settings with a specific focus on the use of the iPad in second language settings. The review sought to provide a picture of the various options of MALL task-design and recent implementation practices in secondary and higher education using a specific tablet device. General findings show that many studies are more descriptive than innovative and advocate the implementation of larger and long-term research studies on how mobile devices, and the iPad in particular, are impacting language teaching and learning. Keywords: Mobile-assisted language learning, review, iPAD, task design.</p>

Framework for 3D Task Design

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-55
Author(s):  
Iryna Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Simulated Environments ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Original Plan

This chapter introduces a framework for the 3D task design. The framework proposes that the process of designing language learning tasks for 3D immersive simulated environments also be immersive. The framework guides designers/teachers who are new to 3D worlds through 10 stages of the design process that incorporates designers/teachers' individual work and their collaboration with colleagues and learners. Following Breen's advice, collaboration with colleagues and learners allows for taking into account some possible interpretations of the tasks to help learners interpret the task as closely as possible to its original plan; it also improves task functionality. Developed for designing 3D language learning tasks, this framework also benefits other disciplines and informs the design of tasks implemented in other virtual environments.

A qualitative analysis of language learning tasks: the design of a tool

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Driessen ◽  
Gerard Westhoff ◽  
Jacques Haenen ◽  
Mieke Brekelmans
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Tasks

L’acquisition de la langue orale par l’entremise de tâches de centres d’apprentissage de littératie dans des classes d’immersion française

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200116
Author(s):  
Josée Le Bouthillier ◽  
Renée Bourgoin ◽  
Joseph Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
French Immersion ◽  
Oral Production ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Language Literacy

This qualitative exploratory study examined the language/literacy tasks performed by elementary students from six elementary French Immersion (FI) classrooms. Various literacy tasks were performed as students rotated through different literacy centres/stations which had been pre-planned by their teachers. Specifically, researchers investigated students’ oral production and opportunities for extended oral output when working at independent learning centres/stations in order to identify key principles for creating literacy-enhancing tasks suitable for developing language literacy skills within second language (L2) contexts. Data were collected through classroom observations ( n = 23) to identify the types of literacy/language tasks proposed to L2 students, the nature of communicative functions, the targeted learning outcomes, and principles of effective L2 learning tasks. Results demonstrate the importance of adapting pedagogical practices, such as literacy centres/stations, borrowed from the first language teaching contexts to maximize L2 literacy/language learning and meet the specific needs of FI students. Results also highlighted the importance of ongoing professional learning opportunities for FI teachers specific to their L2 teaching contexts. Researchers propose principles for creating literacy/language tasks that promote oral language learning in FI contexts.

scholarly journals Towards sustainable language learning in higher education – engagement through multimodal approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
Kirsi Korkealehto ◽  
Vera Leier
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
First Year ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Content Analysis Method

This project was conducted in a five credit course in English as a Foreign Language, which was a compulsory module in first year business administration studies. The data includes students’ learning diaries and a post-course online questionnaire (N=21). The data were analysed using a content analysis method. The results indicate that the students perceived the multimodal task design as enjoyable and students’ engagement was fostered by course design, teacher’s activity, student’s activity, and collaboration.

Familiar or Unfamiliar Context?

2015 ◽  
pp. 223-250
Author(s):  
Amir Mashhadi ◽  
Saeed Khazaie
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Content Representation ◽  
L2 Learning ◽  
The Face ◽  
Age Range

This chapter endeavored to devise a motivating way to engage learners in L2 English learning tasks presented through the mobile game (m-game). It started on the issue of whether types of a displayed picture on m-games had any significant relationship with learners' performance in the blended mode of L2 learning. To that end, a cellphone-based form of the nonEnglish game of 'Xane Bazi', modified as didactic 'Xane Bazi' for English vocabulary learning, was grafted onto the face-to-face mode of content representation in the blended language learning module. 100 Iranian boys and girls within the age range of 10-13 were divided into two groups to learn English vocabulary items during 12 sessions of an academic semester: One group played a version of 'Xane Bazi' with learner-made paintings and the other group played a version of the game filled with photos. The results hinted at the desired effect of utilizing m-games as applying learner-made painting condition to didactic 'Xane Bazi' was proved to significantly ratchet up the participants' L2 learning.

Implications of Using Corpus Tools in Primary and Secondary Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-190
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Given

This chapter will give a comparison of using computer corpora in primary and in secondary schools. It will compare information that was collected from primary school teachers and secondary school teachers about using computer corpora for language subjects on primary and secondary educational levels. Based on the given information, the chapter will provide an explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of using computer corpora in language learning on those two educational levels. The chapter will explore which educational levels have more possibilities for incorporating computer corpora in their teaching activities and how it can be used in the classroom with students.

scholarly journals Beyond Entertainment: Novels and Film Adaptations in the ESL/EFL Classroom

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gareis ◽  
Martine Allard ◽  
Susan Gill ◽  
Jacqueline Saindon
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Video Project

This article explores techniques for use with longer works of literature and their film versions. Activities include discussions and writing assignments exploring the content of the selected novel or play, whole language exercises combining skill practice with social interactions, a video project allowing students to assume the roles of actors and crew members in their own production of the novel or play, and language learning tasks accompanying the viewing of the novel's or play's movie adaptation.

A prioriassessment of language learning tasks by practitioners

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard J. Westhoff
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Depth Analysis

Teachers' competence to estimate the effectiveness of learning materials is important and often neglected in programmes for teacher education. In this lecture I will try to explore the possibilities of designing scaffolding instruments fora prioriassessment of language learning tasks, based on insights from SLA and cognitive psychology, more specifically connectionist theory. I will subsequently outline the development and evaluation of a ‘yardstick’ to judge complex, integrated, life-like tasks, such as WebQuests. The possibilities will be explored of performing in-deptha prioritask analyses as a learning task for teachers in order to enhance their competence in making ‘educated guesses’ about task effectiveness. Finally, an experiment will be described to determine the reliability and validity of an instrument for in-depth analysis of language learning tasks based on the theoretical framework previously described.

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