Full Description
This book is the first substantive scholarly book on project-based and cross-curricular language learning using digital technologies. The book includes new empirical research on project-based language learning utilizing CALL technologies and conceptual and theoretical chapters that address new methodological approaches for researching project-based and cross-curricular language learning in digitally-mediated learning environments. This dual focus distinguishes the volume from previous books on project-based learning in which digital technologies have not been the main focus. CALL research involving a variety of languages is also offered.
The book is timely in that, inspired by OECD reports and curriculum reforms in several countries, a repositioning and re-evaluation of foreign language education in school-based education has been taking place in which foreign language learning is taught in a multi-disciplinary approach involving an emphasis on collaborative literacies, including problem-solving, civic engagement, social justice and telecollaboration. In this mix, language learning, particularly driven by developments in CLIL (content and integrated language learning), is being taught as one of several disciplines in a way that firmly emphasizes communication and creativity rather than a traditional functional approach.
Contents
1. Introduction: Projects, Pandemics and the Re-positioning of Digital Language Learning
Michael Thomas and Kasumi Yamazaki
PART I Project-Based Language Learning and Virtual Exchange
2. Project-Based Language Learning, Virtual Exchange and 3D Virtual Environments: A Critical Review of the Research
Silvia Benini and Michael Thomas
3. Business English Telecollaboration in PBL in Indonesian and Saudi Arabian Contexts
Imelda V. Bangun and Adel Alfaifi
4. Project-Based Language Learning as a Method to Create, Edit and Publish Online Learning Materials in Australian Primary Schools
Thushara Ari
PART II Project-Based Language Learning in Pedagogical Contexts
5. Project-Based Learning in Online Synchronous Writing Classrooms: Enhancing EFL Learners' Awareness of the Ethics of Writing
Fatemeh Nami
6. Incorporating Digital Projects into an Advanced Japanese Course: Effectiveness and Implementation
Kai Xie
7. Project-Based Learning for Content and Language Integrated Learning and Pluriliteracies: Some Examples from Italian Schools
Letizia Cinganotto
8. Project-Based Learning via ePortfolios: Integrating Web 2.0 Tools into Higher Education World Language Classes
Rebecca L. Chism and Evan W. Faidley
Part III Project-Based Language Learning and Social Justice
9. Transcultural Language Learning with Cinema, Social Justice and Teletandem
Martha Guadalupe Hernández Alvarado and Anton T. Brinckwirth
10. Stories, Communities, Voices: Revitalizing Language Learning through Digital Media within a Project-Based Pedagogical Framework
Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy
11. Epilogue: Critical Project-Based Learning and Moving Forwards in the Post-Pandemic University
Michael Thomas
Index
