Enhancing language learning using technology by Malba Barahona

Educational design

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A sound educational design provides opportunities for active learning. The use of technology is key as it is used to:

immerse students into a new language and world in a variety of formats (texts, videos, audios,)
capture key content for students to access at their own convenience and to suit their pace of learning (e.g. lecture material, readings, interactive multimedia,e-pub),
present learning materials in a variety of formats to suit different learner styles and multimodal learning (e.g. text, videos, audio, multimedia),
provide opportunities for interaction and reflection in and out of class (e.g. polling tools, discussion tools, blogs),
convey timely information, updates and reminders for students (e.g micro-blogging, announcement tools,wattle),
provide immediate and anonymous feedback for teachers and students (e.g. quizzes, polls) to signal revision points,
capture data about students to analyse their progress and identify ‘at risk’ students (e.g. wattle reports).

Blended language courses

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Learning Indonesian using a flipped classroom model

Dr Malba Barahona

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Language educator and educational researcher can be contacted at malba.barahona@anu.edu.au

Institutional support to develop online courses

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CAP- Digital learning project

CASS- Educational learning studio

Digital storytelling

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To raise student awareness of the role impact plays in communication and to develop narrative skills, Dr Carol Hayes & Dr Yuki Itani-Adams have been running an Intermediate Japanese Language Digital Story Telling Project in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University since 2009. Digital stories are short three to four minute multimedia productions that combine a first-person narrative, with image and background music, and provide a powerful way of developing learner communicative skills. Digital stories also provide a place where textbook language learning combines with more authentic communication, where teacher-centered and student-centered approaches combine and where the storyteller interacts with their audience

Blogging in Spanish for intercultural competence

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Persian online- the challenges and opportunities of using a web-based platform

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An online course to learn Persian using a web platform with lots of exercises and interactive experiences.

Portuguese online- a complex endeavour

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Portuguese was taught online as a joint project with Indiana University

Examples of language tasks using technology

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Technology has the potentiality of enhancing the language experience providing more time on task and new ways of engagement and learning.

Wattle Forums (e.g Arabic)
Blogging (Spanish
Podcasting (Spanish)
Polls (Spanish)
Wikis (Spanish, Italian )
Digital storytelling (Japanese)

Online language courses

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ANU offers language courses in different flexible modes: online, blended and/or on campus (content on wattle).

Sanskrit
Vietnamese
Indonesian
Javanese
Portuguese
Persian
Arabic
And more...

Conclusion

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Technology is a tool that mediates learning and has the potentiality to transform the learning experience.

“ as computers have become more a part of our everyday lives – and permeated other areas of education – the question is no longer whether to use computers but how .” (Hubbard, 2009, p. 1.).

Dr Mc Comas Taylor & Grazia Scotellaro on the production of The Joy of Sanskrit

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