Developing teacher skills to support collaborative online language learning

Assessment and Autonomy in Language Learning

“…These difficulties may even be magnified in environments where contributions are recorded and made available for all to review at any time, and where the amount of reflection required increases along with the time commitment, for example, to check and respond to multiple online postings. In a collaborative project to identify teacher development needs, reported by Ernest, Heiser and Murphy (2013), participants also commented on issues related to responsibility and the need to build trust through discussion and sharing of feelings about collaborative online working. For example, one participant commented: 'What if you modify something [in the wiki] and it is wrong?…”

TIC en el aula inglesa – ¿Huecos entre la política y la práctica?

“…This critical feature of technology is highlighted in a recent review (Golonka et al 2014), which suggests that the prime function of digital The desire of the younger children "to speak to real French children" is one that could be accommodated by the present technology in the school, but is not (yet) realised. New pedagogies that connect learners across countries, sharing projects and resources in shared languages, are suggested in research such as that of Ernest et al (2013) which enabled graduate teaching students to deploy technology to foster collaborative teaching models. Citing new Web 2.0 environments as a means to increase peer interaction, collaboration and learner autonomy, in a project between the English Open University and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, teachers in England and Spain devised new classroom applications for connecting children for the purpose of learning.…”

Virtual learning environments on the go: CALL meets MALL

“…Publications from only a few years ago, such as Baten, Bouckaert, and Khan (2009), which would be fairly recent in other disciplines, feel much older in the fast-moving e-learning world. Bueno-Alastuey and López Pérez (2013), Ernest, Heiser, and Murphy (2013), Hubackova and Semradova (2013) or Xiaoqiong, Guoqing, and Zeng (2013) are but a few examples of the more recent literature on the use of VLEs for FLT. A good number of researchers specifically look at the use of Moodle for FLT, e.g.…”