Form of presentation | Articles in international journals and collections |
Year of publication | 2011 |
Язык | русский |
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Bibliographic description in the original language | Meskill, C. & Sadykova, G. (2011). Introducing EFL faculty to online instructional conversations. ReCALL Journal, 23(3), 200-217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344011000140 |
Annotation | This article describes the anatomy and dynamics of an online professional development activity, the Moodle fishbowl. The fishbowl was designed as an opportunity for experienced EFL educators to witness and make sense of instructional conversation strategies that they might themselves use as they migrate their EFL courses to blended and eventually fully online venues, venues where the roles and dynamics of interaction are decidedly different than those in the live classroom. A major emphasis in this professional development sequence was to raise faculty awareness of the unique affordances on which they, as experienced language educators, might capitalize through observation of authentic examples of responsive online instructional strategies. To that end, three-week-long collaborations were established between participating faculty's EFL students and a ?cultural expert? in the US. The cultural experts were doctoral students in language technology who employed instructional conversation c |
Keywords | Teaching languages online; sociocultural perspective; language teacher professional development; online instructional conversations; learner-centered online language teaching |
The name of the journal | ReCALL Journal |
URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/ECAB332ED527D8619B5464003CD9E167/S0958344011000140a.pdf/introducing_efl_faculty_to_online_instructional_conversations.pdf |
Please use this ID to quote from or refer to the card | https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=38615&p_lang=2 |
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