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CSCL – a tool to motivate foreign language learners: The Finnish application

2003

This article discusses the applications of the theory of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to teaching and learning a foreign language, in this case, one of the ‘Less Commonly Taught Languages’, Finnish. The ‘Virtually Finnish’ project was based on the idea of creating a larger, virtual Finnish learning community among the second-year Finnish language students in five US universities during the fall semester, 2001. CSCL was chosen as a base, as its principal goal is to aid the learners in sharing and distributing their knowledge to the whole learning community. In addition to discussing the set up and the content of the project, the students’ feedback about their language lea…

Linguistics and LanguageComputer scienceLearning communityForeign languagePrincipal (computer security)Language acquisitionLanguage and LinguisticsComputer Science ApplicationsEducationAnticipation (artificial intelligence)Computer-supported collaborative learningPedagogySet (psychology)Less Commonly Taught LanguagesReCALL
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Learning Slovak in an E-Learning Environment: A case study

2014

Providing a motivating learning environment for learning a less commonly taught language is a challenge. Developing technology, societal changes, virtual mobility and networking create new demands for teachers and students of these languages. Growing needs for international mobility call for the adoption of new pedagogical approaches. It is the urgency of using more up-to-date, pedagogically acceptable computer-assisted teaching programs that led to the development of the e-learning course of Slovak reported upon in this article. The course is based on a socio-constructivist approach and its main aim is to promote the development of learners’ communicative and cultural competence. This empi…

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Virtual Slovak : insight into learning Slovak in an e-learning environment

2015

This paper offers insight into learning Slovak in an e-learning environment. The need to reach distance-learners of Slovak led to the implementation of a web-based course on Slovak language and culture in 2008–2010. The pedagogical basis of the course, called Virtual Slovak, is the socioconstructivist approach to teaching and learning, in which the focus is on the development of learners’ communicative competence. This teaching experiment led to a study in which the focus was on learners’ beliefs and experiences regarding learning Slovak in an e-learning environment. The results showed that this particular learning environment had a positive impact on the development of learners’ agency. Th…

oppimisympäristöComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONcommunicative competenceSlovak less commonly taught languagesLCTLe-learning
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