PRESENTATION NAME

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12/09/09ALL Project

Catering to less widely used languages with blended learning

EuroCALL - Ganda 2009Pedro Cardeosa, Aisling O'Donovan, Joachim QuandtCentro Navarro de Autoaprendizaje de Idiomas

To encourage innovation in the development of language learning and teaching tools

Objectives

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To extend and enhance tools and methodologies for the for less widely used less taught (LWULT) languages in Europe

Objectives

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Objectives

To provide blended-learning language courses for LWULT as online courses with an offline element.

To transfer methodology about blended learning courses to Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Turkish teachers.

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Project map

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CNAI - Centro Navarro de Autoaprendizaje de Idiomas

Znanie Association - Sofia, Bulgaria

ukurova University. Adana,Turkey

EuroEd Foundation, Iasi, Romania

Kindersite Project Ltd. UK

School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Institute of Education. University of London, UK

Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Mykolo Romerio Universitetas

Partner Institutions

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9-12 million speakers

Indo-European, Slavic family

Cyrillic alphabet

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Limba romn

28 million speakers

Indo.European, Romance family

Adapted Roman alphabet

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Lietuvi kalba

3 million speakers

Indo European, Baltic family

Adapted Roman alphabet

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Trke

63 million speakers

Uralic-Altaic

Adapted Roman alphabet

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The project teams are all people with a passion for the learning and teaching of languages.

Projects like ALL are not just professional commitments, they are deeply personal ones.

Joint KickOff Meeting of the ALL and TOOL ProjectsPartner Institutions

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Diverse languages and learning contexts

InflectionsCasesGendersLexisSyntaxAlphabetsPhonetics

Challenge

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Diverse teaching philosophies and backgrounds.

Grammar translation, functional notional, Berlitz method, task based learning, teacher-centered learning.

Need to unify the terms and definitions in which language learning objectives would be stated across the project in the language syllabi.Challenge

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Duration: 30 weeks. Total 120 hours
50% online (15 Units) 50% in class

Blended Learning

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Blended Learning

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Need to guide the learners through the blended learning field, to help them negotiate the different materials available on the courses

Blended Learning

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Orientation unitsMultilingual video tutorials using Web 2.0 technology.

Blended Learning

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Transparent Objectives

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Transparent learning objectives in each activity and in every unit

Transparent Objectives

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Student's desktop of the ALL virtual learning environment

Virtual folderAccess to the online learning materialsCommunication toolsCourse organization

Virtual Learning Environment

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Online Courses:

Orientation UnitThree Modules
15 Units

Online Learning Materials

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Multilingual support texts in

EnglishFrenchSpanishItalian

Multilingual Approach

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Multilingual support texts in

EnglishFrenchSpanishItalian

Multilingual Approach

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RSS-Feed

Integrate learning materials in other websites

RSS - Feeds

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Automatic generation of Podcast-Feeds for each unit containing audio files for mobile learning

Mobile Learning - Podcasting

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In some languages a need to develop learning materials from scratch.
Need to train editors in the use of online authoring tools, new software, use cameras, to upload images, sound files, video files, use free licenses

Challenge

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Online exercises with self-correction and instant feedback

Online Materials

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Content with strong cultural component

Culture

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Need to exploit the collaborative and communicative possibilities of technology, when neither communicative teaching nor the use of the technology was automatic to the target course users (teachers and students).

Collaborative Learning

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Online Correction with pre-defined error categories for each language

Innovative Tools

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1st pilotaimed at editors and course writersareas for improvement in design of activities2nd pilotaimed at teachers and students trying out the material focused principally on one online module.3rd pilotFull pilot of the blended learning course comment on the effectiveness of blended learning.

Evaluation

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Integrated Evaluation at the end of each unit.

Two short questions:What did you like most?What did you like least?

Evaluation

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Direct Feedback for course editors
Integrated in the course editing tool on the virtual learning environment

Evaluation

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Learners guide and the other learning tools were very useful.

The course helped them set their own short and long-term learning objectives.

It helped them to find the most suitable learning strategies and methods for their own needs.

They all found studying independently and being able to give their own decisions during the learning process and evaluating their own progress to be highly effective.

The participants found the course especially effective in improving receptive skills (reading and listening) and their writing.

For their overall progress, all participants stated that the course contributed to their learning.

What the learners say

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When there are two or only one student taking the course, there is almost no way to use the online learner to learner communication, which is a loss

A teacher should be technically minded or at least technique friendly

A teacher should have a PC at home, most of the time students do their homework at home

More interactive exercises for speaking skill

Please improve the peer-to-peer interaction tools. That would be very useful

Improvements

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