language learning strategies and multimedia language learning
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Language Learning Strategies and Multimedia Language Learning Presentation by Laura Lochore at AFMLTA conference Sydney 2009TRANSCRIPT
Laura LochoreWestOne Services
Language learning strategies
in multimedia learning
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Language learning and communication strategies
Collaborative learning strategies Literacy strategies Thinking skills Strategies for engaging learners Strategies for using digital resources.
Strategies? Do I do strategies?
Strategies: Why?
•Strategies facilitate learning•Challenges to learning area
“Languages are all very well, but we have to focus on literacy”.
Literacy
Functional literacyCritical literacy
– Intercultural understanding– http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/English/critlit.htm
Task design–Literacy strategies –Thinking skills–Collaborative learning
strategies
Who are our learners and how do they learn?
Read the instructionsDiscovery learningSocial learningViewing
Metacognition: Know how you learnt something so you can do it again.
Strategies to engage learners
Boys “rejected and resisted almost all school literacy practices … but were eager to embrace highly sophisticated literate practices outside school…”
They rejected homework as “boring, stupid, way to easy”.
They wanted to “use what they learn”.
Online gaming or language teaching strategies?
Challenge (supported) and purpose Get straight in (learn by doing) Risk-taking and reward Interact, communicate Learn from peers & see others
learning Awareness of progress Develop identity
– “I’m an Indonesian speaker”
Incorporating strategies into tasks
Task: create a video-clip (real/animated) in the TL demonstrating the use of strategies.
Strategies for using digital technologies
Beware IT fatigue Vary delivery/mode/media
– individual, small group, whole group– screen, discussion, paper
Teach IT strategies – Web-searching in TL, advanced
searching, evaluating validity of sites.
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