Individuals, Community, Communication and Language

Pedagogy

Emerging technologies that are shaping and being shaped by

our field

Dr Debra HovenAthabasca University

http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~debrah/GLoCALL2008.html

CALL today

• What is it?

• What does it look like?

• What can we do with it?

• How can we use it to teach?

• What can our students learn?

Some confusion lately …Is it all CALL??

CALL CMC

CELL SNS

TELL WSCL

MALL CMCL

WALL LMSetc …

Time to change our terms?

• Chapelle (2000)

• Kern (2006)

Is networked CALL still CALL?

Fitting the pedagogy to the technology …

Six roles of CALL today

1. Instructional CALL

2. Discovery/exploratory CALL

3. Communications CALL

4. Social networked CALL

5. Collaborative CALL

6. Narrative/Reflective CALL

In the context of …

Classroom learningPersonal learningAutonomous Learning Lifelong LearningLanguage Learning Skill DevelopmentContent/Learning Management SystemsPersonal Learning EnvironmentsBlended/Hybrid Learning

1. Instructional CALL• (Tutorial CALL)

• Various pedagogical models …

• Teaching discrete or context-embedded language

• Across skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening

• Focussed learning

• Objective oriented

• Convergent/closed tasks

Some examples …• Hot Potatoes: various activity types

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

… and a range of instructional pages built on these:

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/sites6.htm

• Real English videos & lessons

http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp

Some examples …• Michael Krauss’ online activities

http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html

• Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab

http://www.esl-lab.com/

• Internet TESOL Journal’s ESL Activities

http://a4esl.org/

2. Discovery/exploratory CALL

• Inductive learning models

• Learning-focussed

• Skill or knowledge oriented

• Knowledge transformation

• Individually or collaboratively constructed

• Divergent or convergent tasks

Some examples …

• Simulations – Travel sim: Grand Canyon

http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/travelsim/

• Role plays/enactments– The NASA exercise: Lost on the Moon

http://nasa.perbang.dk/– ESL Flow

http://www.eslflow.com/roleplaysdramatheatregames.html

& more examples …• Webquests

http://webquest.org/index.php

http://bestwebquests.com/what_webquests_are.asp

http://students.ed.qut.edu.au/n0487902/CLN618/WebQuest/

• Second Life version for teens:

http://teen.secondlife.com/

& a commentary on the use/abuse …

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20070319/

3. Communications CALL

• CMC (computer/technology mediated communication)

• Communication focussed (language for communication)

• Language for real purposes

• Culturally embedded

• Convergent or divergent tasks

• Synchronous, delayed synchronous

or asynchronous

Some examples …

• Email

• Chat (audio & video enhanced)– GoogleTalk, IM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger

etc

• MOOs

SchMOOze

http://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu/

& more examples …• VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)

– Skype

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/

• Tandem exchanges

http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

• Synchronous multimodal communicating– Elluminate (Vrooms)

http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/ – WiZiQ

http://www.wiziq.com/

4. Social Networked CALL• Social or radical constructivist pedagogy

• Wisdom of the crowd

• Connectedness

• Disruption

• Personal, community, shared and collective ownership

• Context-embedded & context-distributed

• Co-creation of meaning/knowledge through aggregation

Some examples …• Blogs

– Individual/class: http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.alaskool.org/projects/day_in_life/dil2.htm#– Class/shared

http://classblogmeister.com/

http://katsstudents.blogspot.com/

• Photos & video– Flickr

http://flickr.com/– Picasa

http://picasa.google.com/

& more examples …• Personal webspaces (adaptable)

– Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/– & for teaching a class:

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?everyone&ref=tn#/group.php?gid=2389494301

– MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/ – BeBo

http://www.bebo.com/

& yet more examples …• Bookmarking & tagging Tag clouds

– Del.icio.us

http://delicious.com/ – Technorati

http://technorati.com/

• Mobile & web devices: Twitter

http://twitter.com/

• Collaboratories

http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/

• Folksonomies

http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

5. Collaborative CALL

• Social constructivist pedagogy

• Co-creation of knowledge

• Language acquisition through negotiation of meaning

• Divergent tasks

• Individuals bring their skills to the task

• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Some examples …• WikisWikispaces

http://www.wikispaces.com/

http://youthwiki.wikispaces.com/Marshall+School%2C+AK

PBWiki

http://pbwiki.com/

http://www.wetpaint.com/

• Google Docshttp://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

& more examples …

• Collaboratories– The water habitat project

http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/gallery/pop3/pop3_1.cfm

• Folksonomies

http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

6. Narrative/Reflective CALL– Starting from the personal: ownership &

direction– Personally-meaningful language– Language for real purposes & real

audiences– Multimedia & multimodal– Learner- & learning-focussed– Divergent or convergent

• Digital storytelling

• e-Portfolios

Some examples …• Dr Helen Barrett’s Digital storytelling site

http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/index.html

• Dr Arnie Abrams

http://www.arnieabrams.net/handouts.htm

• ePortfolios for various purposes & of various kinds

http://electronicportfolios.org/

http:www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca/portfolio/port_eng.html

Looking from the past to the present & the future …

CALL, the present & the future …

• What is important?

• What is ideal?

• What is possible?

• What will soon be possible?

• What fits with our learners’ contexts?

• How can this enrich their learning?

• How will this improve their learning?

Thank you! Your questions?

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