Language Education During the Pandemic

Rushing Online, Assessment and Community
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-35857-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

This edited book explores and illustrates successful practices for online assessment and community-building, based on the authors' own classroom practice during and in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic. The authors argue that what has happened during the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed perspectives on language education, and that if the importance of using online teaching tools in the classroom was dimly understood before the crisis, the language teaching establishment has now fully realized their potential and must continue exploring this further, even as the option to return to in-person teaching becomes widespread. Ranging from online activities to course design, the volume presents a comprehensive outlook at distance learning in modern foreign languages. It does so by focusing on those two aspects that, within an emergency scenario, have proven most challenging, namely: how to assess students in a non-controlled environment and how to foster a sense of community from the confinement of our isolated learning spaces. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in Language Education, as well as teachers and teacher trainees.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fiorucci, Wissia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rushing Online by Wissia Fiorucci.- Section 1 English as a Foreign Language: Italian Case Studies.- Chapter 2: Authentic and Continuous Assessment During the Pandemic: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives by Antonella Giacosa.- Chapter 3: Computer-Based Self-assessment as a Customised Tool for the Strategic Implementation of an Updated Circular Teaching Model by Roxanne Barbara Doerr and Annalisa Zanola.- Section 2 Practices in the Virtual Classroom.- Chapter 4: Revisiting the Language Lab in the Age of Online Learning: Videoconferencing, Teacher Feedback, and Learner Self-Correction by Tobias Heinrich.- Chapter 5: Teaching Translation into Spanish Asynchronously: Assessment and Engagement in the Times of COVID by Nazaret Pérez-Nieto.- Chapter 6: Loops, Sayings, and Tongue-Twisters: How to Enhance Foreign Language Communicative Skills in Online Learning Environments by Livia Manzini.- Section 3 Intercultural Competence and Community in Online Settings.- Chapter 7: Developing an Online Community and Intercultural Competence: Travelling Virtually to China by Wissia Fiorucci, Ru Su, Alvise Sforza Tarabochia.- Chapter 8: Developing a Sense of Community Online Through Intercultural Communication: A Gamified Approach by Patricia Díaz-Muñoz and Laura Stecca.- Section Four: Conclusions.- Chapter 9: The Future of Assessment in Language Education: What Have We Learnt from the Pandemic? by Marion Coderch.

Über Autor(innen)

Wissia Fiorucci is the Director of the Language Centre at the University of Kent, UK as well as the Director of Education and UG Students’ Experience for the Division of Arts and Humanities. She’s one of the two co-organisers of the Modern Languages Teaching Forum. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.