Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
INTRODUCING EFL FACULTY TO ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATIONS
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2011
Языкрусский
  • Sadykova Gulnara Vasilevna, author
  • 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
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