LCE 512 SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY (7 ECTS)
The aim of this course is to set students on track to becoming autonomous lifelong learners in the field of foreign language instructional technology (SLIT). To achieve this goal, students will be provided with a broad perspective of SLIT: where it has come from, where it is now, and its likely future directions. Student will get practical experience using multimedia-editing tools (text, audio, graphics, and video) in the preparation of their assignments. Using Internet search engines, they will discover what the primary professional resources of the field are and how to access them. They will explore and evaluate different types of computer-assisted language learning activity types: tutorials, tools, simulations, games, and communication. In so doing, they will get hands-on experience using applications designed to foster specific language skill areas, cultural knowledge and communicative competence. As part of the collaborative assignments upon which the course is based, students will develop their practical competence in the use of social networking sites and computer-mediated-communication applications: discussion forums, chats, wikis, and blogs. They will likewise learn to use various computer-based storytelling tools as language teaching applications. At the end of the course, through the e-portfolios that they produce, students will possess an extensive summary of what they have learned and created in the course for their future reference in the MA in CALL programme and ongoing professional development.