Language Learning 2.0: Language Learning 2.0: Creating Immersive Learning Creating Immersive Learning Environments for 21st Environments for 21st Century LearnersCentury Learners

James C. ChanIndiana University - Bloomington

Who am I & What do I do?Who am I & What do I do?◦Director, Center for Language

Technology and Instructional Enrichment (www.iub.edu/~celtie)

◦Provide technology support and instructional services to the teaching/learning/research of over 50 languages at IUB

◦Online resources: CeLTIE WebRecorder IU Foreign/Second Language Portal IU Foreign/Second Language Share Fair

Who’re the 21Who’re the 21stst Century Century Learners?Learners?“Digital Natives”

◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgsw-NgDoFE

◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

How easy for them to speak How easy for them to speak a foreign language! a foreign language! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDRburxwz8

ReflectionReflectionTake a moment to reflect on your

own teaching or the classroom instruction you saw: ◦Was it teacher-centered or learner-

center? ◦Did it in anyway address the digital

natives’ learning styles? What do the new technology

mean to you?◦Threats/Disruptions◦Empowerments/Innovations

Language Learning 2.0 Language Learning 2.0 PrinciplesPrinciples teacher-centered student centered (Little 2007:

learner autonomy) behaviorist  interactional (Long 1996: the

importance of both 'comprehensible input' and 'negotiated meaning‘); social interaction and collaboration (Vygotsky 1978, Lave 1988, Brown, Collins & Duguid 1989)

classroom drills authentic contexts (audience) for communication (to negotiate meaning) (Chapelle 1998); situated learning (Lave 1988, Brown, Collins & Duguid 1989)

classroom learning communities the target language communities (Alm 2006)

direct instruction experiential (learning by doing) / immersive learning; integrate learning into life

homework feedback immediate positive reinforcement

Web 2.0Web 2.0a second generation of the World Wide

Web that enables users to collaborate and share information online. 

users of Web 1.0 websites, in contrast, are limited to the passive viewing of pre-made content.◦ Web 1.0 Web 2.0 ◦ Britannica Online Wikipedia◦ personal website blogging ◦ movie sites YouTube (video sharing)◦ brower bookmarks social

bookmarking/tagging◦ persoanl website mashups/social media

Language Learning 2.0Language Learning 2.0 using web 2.0 tools to teach & learn a language

◦ 2D: Google Docs https://docs.google.com/demo/edit?id=scAARgBZDpF1FaS

FC6SgeDw2N&dt=spreadsheet#spreadsheet◦ 2D: Online Whiteboards

Scriblink www.scriblink.com ◦ 2D: VoiceThread https://voicethread.com◦ 2D: Skype, Gmail Chat

The Mixxer http://www.language-exchanges.org/ xLingo http://www.languageexchange.org/ Livemocha http://www.livemocha.com/ My Language Exchange

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/◦ 3D: Second Life

http://secondlife.com/whatis/?lang=en-US Meet people Get educated http://mychinavillage.uoregon.edu/

Immersive Learning Immersive Learning EnvironmentsEnvironmentsA virtual world is a online

community through which users can interact (role play) with multiple users and digital objects in real time.

Users take the form of avatars visible to others graphically in a simulated world (telepresence).

Multimodal communication among users - through text, graphical icons ('smilies‘), visual gesture, sound, and voice.

Able to support most Language Learning 2.0 principles.

Congratulations!Congratulations!