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Título: Coconstructing Learning: The Dynamic Nature of Foreign Language Pedagogy in a CMC Environment
Autores: Van Deusen-Scholl, Nelleka
Frei, Christina
Dixon, Edward
Fecha: 2013-01-14
Publicador: Calico Journal
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Tema:
In-class Activities, Out-of-class Activities, Online Activities, Integration of Learning Activities
Descripción: Recent innovations in technology allow foreign language learners and their instructors to interact both inside and beyond the classroom using a variety of communicative tools. As a consequence, the classroom has been transformed into an extended learning environment which has had a profound effect on both student and teacher roles. However, the theoretical and pedagogical issues emerging from these new practices have not yet been thoroughly investigated. In an on-going collaborative research project, we seek to gain greater insights into the benefits of specific computer-mediated communication (CMC) activities and to examine the relationship between in-class, online, and out-of-class learning. In this paper, we propose the concept of spiraled interaction--the dynamic interplay of in-class activities that in part focus on meaning and focus on form and online collaborations that have as their primary goal student-constructed representations of knowledge. Our investigation initiates a general framework that combines technology-mediated pedagogy with different learning objectives at various levels of competency.
Idioma: Inglés