designing intercultural communication tasks for business...
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Designing intercultural communication tasks for Business Spanish MOOC modules
Carolina Egúsquiza
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
March 24, 2015
During this session…
Ongoing research project: Task design for intercultural communication in Business Spanish MOOC modules
Opportunities and affordances of MOOCs for specialized language learning and intercultural competence training
Motivation
Spanish, 3th or 4th FL Blended/online courses Professional Spanish textbooks/material
hypothesis: design of online modules that integrate intercultural communication tasks
Why MOOCs?
★flexibility ★openness ★modularity ★meeting point
Network-based (cMOOCs) Content-based (xMOOCs) Task-based MOOCs
Lane, L. (2012). Three kinds of MOOCs. Lisa’s (online) Teaching and History blog.
Educational Engineering/Distributed Design model
Analysis
Development
Implementation
Evaluation
conceptualization
specification
prototyping
Design
Theory Technology
learning situation
elaborated concept of LE which changes: pedagogical, content, technological example, model
Figure 1. Colpaert, J. (2014). Designing for personalization and contextuallization.
Theoretical background
Español para Fines Específicos (EFE) y Español de los Negocios (ENE)
Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)
Instructional Design
E-learning/MOOCs
Computer-mediated communication/Telecollaboration
Methodology
Needs analysis (interviews, focus groups).
Task design (psychological, pedagogical, linguistic criteria).
Specification of required functionalities.
Comparison of MOOC platforms and selection of most appropriate platform, based on required functionalities and functionalities offered on platforms.
Real-world test with students. Measurement of acceptance and perception of the MOOC learning environment and the online communication tools (UTAUT). Intercultural awareness? Not in absolute terms but identifying evidence of consciousness, sensibility, metacognition.
Comparison of MOOC platforms
Comparison of MOOC platforms
Overall course presentation & visual design
Activities & Tasks
Openness
Personalization
Technological environment
Overall course presentation and visual design
Technological environment: discussions, comments & social learning
Technological environment: collaboration & group dynamics
P2P: peer to peer activities
Group collaboration
Technological environment: tools for language learning/speaking
rich media editor (integrated function to record audio/video)
open resources: SpeakApps (can be integrated to certain platforms)
Conclusions (platforms)
Not easy! Different platforms offer you different features & tools Some platforms are more flexible (LMS), while developers on other MOOC platforms are constantly working on additions Key: Which tools serve us best to enhance the particular tasks we want to design for our particular MOOC?
MOOCs: Opportunities for LSP, CLIL, CLAC, IC
MOOCs: Opportunities for LSP, CLIL, CLAC & IC
Content & Language Integrated LearningL
MOOCs: Opportunities for LSP, CLIL, CLAC & IC
LSP: Authentic content, authentic language, authentic language & intercultural exchange
Interdisciplinary & Intercultural
To conclude…
MOOCs
Recent trend…
Opportunities (language, content, intercultural)…
Research project
Students’ perceptions of the learning environment and tasks? Evidence of intercultural reflection & consciousness?
