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NIFLAR article on Second Life chosen in a selection highlighting quality and range
The Editors from the Educational Media & Technology portfolio have chosen a selection of articles to highlight the quality and range of research published in their journals. Our article Verbal interaction in Second Life: towards a pedagogic framework for task design, by Jauregi, Canto, De Graaff, Koenraad & Moonen has been... read more ...
Three articles on the NIFLAR experiences have been published recently: 1. Enhancing meaningful oral interaction in Second Life Original Research Article Kristi Jauregi, Silvia…
Three articles on the NIFLAR experiences have been published r ecently : 1. Enhancing meaningful oral interaction in Second… read more ...
MachinEVO in Second Life Kicks off today
TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012 has already started Here is the summary but you can read more about it on the MachiEVO Course wiki: http://machinevo.pbworks.com/w/page/47494320/MachinEVO… read more ...
EU Grants for NIFLAR's summercourse
Dear colleagues, Would like to inform you about the Summercourse on using technology for oral communication in Modern Language Teaching, largely based on the results of the NIFLAR project. The Universities of Utrecht and Valencia, in cooperation with TELLConsult and the Utrecht SummerSchool,… read more ...
Presentación ofrecida en las III Jornadas de ALAO en Valencia
Ha sido fantástico participar en las III Jornadas de ALAO y colaborar con el equipo Camille dirigido por Ana Gimeno y contar con la experiencia de Randall Sadler, Graham Davies, Luisa Panichi y Heike Philip. Me ha encantado ver el entusiasmo con el que profesores de lenguas han estado experimentando con Second Life. Ésta ha... read more ...
Presentatie voor docenten MVT en NT2
Op 24 november organiseerde Coutinho en Levende Talen de studiemiddag 'Kennis delen is kennis vermeerderen' voor docenten Vreemdetalen- en NT2. Ik mocht voor de opening van de studiemiddag zorgen met een lezing waar ik vanuit… read more ...
Nueva publicación sobre la negociación de procesos de escritura en videocomunicación
Se acaba de publicar el artículo de K. Jauregi: "La negociación de procesos de escritura a través de la videocomunicación" en Estévez, N., Gómez, J.R., y Carbonell, M. (eds.) La comunicación escrita en el siglo XXI (2011). Quaderns de Filologia, Estudis Linguistics, 16, pp. 81-105. Resumen Tras una introducción... read more ...
CALL Reserach Conference in Taiwan, call for abstracts
THE MEDIUM MATTERs XVth International CALL Research Conference Providence University, Taichung (Taiwan), 25-27 May 2012 http://www.cs.pu.edu.tw/~2012call/ The editor, associate editors and editorial board of Computer Assisted Language Learning: an International Journal (Taylor and Francis) extend a… read more ...
NIFLAR to offer summer course in 2012
Utrecht University supports NIFLAR project team's initiative to offer the summer course ' Methodologies & Technologies to promote oral communication in Language Education' in collaboration with the Faculty of Education of Valencia University and the Utrecht Summerschool .… read more ...
Conference: Intercultural Competence and Foreign/Second Language Immersive Environments
Just passing on this information: Intercultural Competence and Foreign/Second Language Immersive Environments January 26-29, 2012 Tucson, AZ The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels,… read more ...
Abstract
As part for the Niflar project I wrote my thesis within the line of the current research to contribute to the investigation. Hereby I upload my abstract to give an insight into my findings. The complete thesis is online on igitur. I hope it interests you! Traditionally, foreign languages were educated in a classroom, and... read more ...
SL content @ MFL Resources Site
The MFL Resources site houses resources which have been generously donated by practising language teachers who are members of 2 Yahoo groups called 'mflresources'& 'primarymflresources' [mfl=modern foreign languages] and who want to 'share the workload'. As the file sharing area becomes 'used up' on the Yahoo site, files are... read more ...
The Development of the Production of Assertive and Directive Speech Acts
This blog contents an abstract of my master thesis in Spanish Language and Culture… read more ...
Conferencia inaugural del año académico en la Universidad de Concepción, Chile
El 14 de abril en la conferencia inaugural del año académico de la Universidad de Concepción se presentaron los resultados del proyecto NIFLAR. La universidad de Concepción participó en la primera experiencia piloto del proyecto. … read more ...
La telecolaboración en el curso de postgrado de la Universidad de Concepción
Entre el 11 y 15 de abril 2011 se ha impartido un curso de postgrado sobre la implementación de la telecolaboración en procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras, tomando como punto de partida los resultados del proyecto NIFLAR.… read more ...
Another communicative game for NIFLAR 3D
On February 17, at the Dutch national Seminar ‘ Innovation and Inspiration’ , organised by SURF Foundation, we… read more ...
New homes for NIFLAR's 3D worlds
To secure exploitation of the project's 3D related project results NIFLAR has struck strategic alliances with 2 organisations that support language learning activities in Second Life and Open Sim: Talkademy and VirtYou .… read more ...
NIFLAR seminar live
NIFLAR (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research) is a two year project (2009-2010), funded by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme, that aims at enriching, innovating and making more rewarding foreign language learning programs by integrating opportunities for learners to interact... read more ...
Master Thesis on Computer Mediated Communication
Here you will find an abstract of my master thesis on the development of fluency of Dutch students enrolled in an intermediate Spanish as a L2 course of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Utrecht University. Computer Mediated Communication: The development of fluency by web-based video communication A recent... read more ...
Happy New Year!!
Our very best wishes to all (real and virtual) NIFLAR friends! … read more ...
Two new games in NIFLAR’s 3D SIMs
Two new game elements targeted at supporting intercultural communicative competence (ICC) development have been realized for NIFLAR’s 3D SIM object-driven activity design program. One application allows avatars to walk on stilts, the other to throw menhirs. Both are positioned on the Asterix Island and the latter is most... read more ...
NIFLAR - Portuguese cluster
Resumo das Experiências do ‘Follow Up’ (Utrecht-Coimbra e Valência-Coimbra) No quadro do projecto NIFLAR os departamentos de Português das universidades de Coimbra/Portugal, Utrecht/Holanda e Valência/Espanha experimentaram com vídeo-comunicação como ferramenta de ensino e aprendizagem nas aulas de língua.... read more ...
Summary of Dutch Follow-up Experiences
In the NIFLAR project student teachers developed tasks to enhance the learning of Dutch by students from the Czech Republic (Palacký University Olomouc) and Portugal (University of Coimbra). The tasks confronted students with a lot of authentic language input and intercultural communication. With three different tasks meaningful... read more ...
Thought provoking keynotespeech at Online Educa Berlin
Adrian Sannier from Pearson eCollege was one of the keynote speakers at Online Educa Berlin. Look at his thought provoking presentation and get ready to get "aggressive". This is the strategy he proposes in order to successfully implement ICT in Education: link to the video: http://www.online-educa.com/audio-video-421… read more ...
Workshop and presentation at Online Educa Berlin
NIFLAR collaborated with other European founded projects (Avalon, Start, Avatar) in a day workshop (1st of December) on Virtual Pedagogies in Practice, in the pre-conference sessions of Online Educa Berlin. The workshop was well attended. It was very interesting to learn about how other projects address similar issues from different... read more ...
Last NIFLAR flyer at GloCALL conference
Because of the impressive efforts put into disseminating the NIFLAR results by project team members, and its coordinator in particular, NIFLAR was present at practically all relevant European conferences. Hence the idea of spreading the good news even further and go global. That is how the last NIFLAR flyer -of my collection that is... read more ...
NIFLAR experiences presented at ICT for Language Learning
NIFLAR experiences for enhancing intercultural communication through Second Life were presented at the International Congress ICT for language Learning, held on the 11th and 12th of november 2010 in Florence, Italy. It was interesting and very well organised. The topics presented were varied and relevant: practical experiences,... read more ...
Design research of Comics Puzzler started
Just had a first viewing of the video registrations of the pilot sessions in which the Comics Puzzler was trialled. Although voice quality is problematic at times (also demonstrating our technical constraints) the materials are most valuable as they also provide lots of data to support our design research. We will be looking... read more ...
Secondary Schools Pilot finished
We are currently analysing data from the 3-week pilot for secondary schools pupils in the NIFLAR 3D worlds in Open Sim. In the final week NL students collaborated with Spanish students on two tasks. The first involved evaluating the 3D rendering of a Spanish town and the recognisability of Valencia in particular. Part of the task was... read more ...