Virtual Connections: Online Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners

Handle, Donna C. Van; Warschauer, Mark

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“…Since the Internet offers all kinds of subjects, some of them are not suitable for school children who are learning English as a second language. Although serious precautions are taken today, it remains a significant problem for parents and children (Singhal, 1997). Lastly, the increasing amount of information usually confuses learners when trying to access specific information.…”

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Benefits and Drawbacks of Learning English Online

Thane¹

2023

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Learning English is not an easy feat. We used to travel long distances to learn English from the best English teachers when we were younger. We may now study English without leaving our homes by using the internet; all we need is reliable internet access. As we all know, there are several advantages to studying English online, yet there are drawbacks if we do so incorrectly. I utilized a quantitative research technique to identify the advantages and disadvantages of online English learning. First, I used Google Forms to determine the most pertinent 15 questions for participants, which took approximately three months, and I obtained 95 responses out of 100 surveys on the benefits and drawbacks of online English learning. By extensively investigating the replies, we can appropriately establish the weightiness of the pros and cons of studying English on the internet. Although technology and multimedia make it easier to study English, there are advantages and problems due to poor internet usage. According to research, there are a plethora of advantages we may reap if we apply the right implications of using internet resources to learn any language, not only English. Without a doubt, if we exploited the internet in the wrong way, there would be a slew of bad consequences for our society as a whole.

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Benefits and Drawbacks of Learning English Online

Thane¹

2023

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“…Se favorece de este modo la comunicación, porque, como expone Baron (1984), la organización jerárquica que en muchas ocasiones determina el desarrollo de una conversación presencial queda diluida en el anonimato que proporciona el medio y, por lo tanto, los roles se intercambian con más facilidad, ofreciendo oportunidades comunicativas a aquellos alumnos que, por diversas cuestiones, no interactúan en una conversación al uso. Esta posibilidad resulta, desde nuestro punto de vista, esencial en la aplicación del correo electrónico como medio didáctico, como se ha constatado en diversos estudios que han analizado la producción lingüística en la lengua meta (Beauvois, 1995;Warschauer, 1995;González-Bueno, 1998;Lee, 1998;Sitman, 1998;Trenchs, 1998a). Esta mayor implicación del alumnado se ve favorecida por la ausencia de elementos kinésicos en la interacción, lo que obliga al aprendiz a esforzarse por construir un texto que, como afirma Cruz Piñol (2002, p. 79), "será su imagen pública", pues en el correo electrónico "eres lo que escribes (o dices), sin ningún detalle paralingüístico que te pueda delatar" (Sitman, 1998, p. 12).…”

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El correo electrónico como medio de aprendizaje lingüístico

Casanovas

2003

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Se analizan las características que presenta el correo electrónico y las peculiaridades de las interacciones que se producen a través de este canal frente a otros tipos de comunicación electrónica, así como sus potencialidades como medio didáctico en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas. Se revisan algunas experiencias didácticas basadas en el uso de este medio y se propone una tipología de aplicaciones didácticas que se ejemplifica con algunas de las experiencias pedagógicas realizadas en el ámbito de la didáctica de las lenguas.

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“…Its beginnings date back to the 1990s and over the last three decades, both the terminology used to refer to the pedagogical approach of VE and the practice itself have transformed and evolved rapidly as will be discussed in detail in the following pages. Over the years, this practice has been referred to as telecollaboration (Belz, 2003;Warschauer, 1995), tandem learning (O'Rourke, 2007), Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) (O'Dowd 2007;O'Dowd & Lewis, 2016), Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education (Belz & Thorne 2005) or Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Currently, the term that many practitioners and researchers propose in order to advance the field is Virtual Exchange (VE) to refer to the different ways in which international students engage in structured online collaborative learning projects.…”

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Virtual exchange and the integration of global and ecological citizenship in foreign language education

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This thesis was written and is framed in a context of educational change and global challenge marked by historic events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine and the environmental crisis among others. As asserted in the 2022 UN's annual 'Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report': "Today, we stand on the precipice of a critical moment. Either we fail to deliver on our commitments to support the world's most vulnerable or together we turbo-charge our efforts to rescue the SDGs and deliver meaningful progress for people and the planet by 2030" (UN, 2022, p. 4). For this reason, the pedagogical activities proposed here take on special relevance due to their suitability for the development of intercultural (Byram, 2008), global (OECD, 2018), and ecological (Dobson, 2000 citizenship competences that favour sustainable and peaceful coexistence. As stated by the OECD (2018): "Developing a global and intercultural outlook is a process -a lifelong process-that education can shape" (p.5). It is following this idea of using education as a shaping power for preparing students to seize the opportunities and face the challenges that the present context poses that this doctoral thesis is born.

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Virtual Connections: Online Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners

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Benefits and Drawbacks of Learning English Online

Benefits and Drawbacks of Learning English Online

El correo electrónico como medio de aprendizaje lingüístico

Virtual exchange and the integration of global and ecological citizenship in foreign language education

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