Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando
(2005).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1080/09588220500442772 |
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Abstract
This paper presents the challenges involved in designing a full set of online tutorial materials for a beginners' Spanish course for distance language learners utilising an online audiographic conferencing VLE for synchronous oral interaction. Although much has been written about task design and task-based learning and teaching (TBLT) in language learning (Johnson, 2003; Klapper, 2003; Ellis, 2000; Nunan, 1989, among others), the shift to an audiographic Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) medium presents a number of challenges to task design which are only just beginning to be documented (Hampel 2003, Hampel & Baber 2003, Hampel & Hauck 2004). Here we will discuss what the challenges are for the design and implementation of activities suited to the development of oral skills in a foreign language in such an environment in the light of current theories of SLA (Skehan, 2003; Doughty & Long, 2003; Doughty, 2000; Long, 1996), task design, and CALL (Warschauer, 1997; Chapelle 1998) and how those challenges were met for the production of a full set of materials for a beginners' Spanish distance learning course at the Open University using a tool that had been deemed unsuitable for that level (Kötter, 2001). We will also present the findings of the developmental testing of a sample of these activities and recommend a model for tasks in an audiographic VLE to promote oral interaction at beginner level.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 0958-8221 |
| Extra Information: | This is a final draft of the article. For published version see journal.--- Above is depositor's own comment. Currently no rules on Sherpa for this journal but as the PDF is not the publisher's own I have left it on - KM 15.09.06 |
| Keywords: | CALL; Audiographic conferencing; Virtual classrooms; CMC; Task Design; SLA |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) Language & Literacies |
| Item ID: | 5423 |
| Depositing User: | Fernando Rosell-Aguilar |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2016 08:17 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423 |
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