Online language class is challenging due to its high demand for synchronous interactions. For students to speak up, creating a comfortable and encouraging atmosphere is essential, but this becomes especially difficult in a virtual classroom.
In response to this challenge, a project was designed to enhance learning, facilitate student-student interaction, and help build a dynamic learning community. Different from traditional writing assignments, this project required listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It turned the previous unrelated assignments for each unit into one showcase, serving an authentic communicative purpose – helping students know each other.
The presentation will give a step-by-step walk-through on how the project was carried out throughout the quarter and offer a brief demonstration of the technology tools involved. Students’ feedback will also be included, together with the presenter’s reflection on how to further improve the design of the project.
Be sure to join the Office Hours discussion for this video on Thursday morning. Find more information on that session here:
https://teachx21.sched.com/event/j8mt
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