LANGUAGE LEARNING AND SOCIAL MEDIA – 6 Key dialogues

A unique mix of activities exploring the relationship of language learning and social media in the web 2.0 era: Participatory debates, award-winning competitions, policy recommendations and reports, scientific publications and field studies.

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Country: Pan European

Tags: language learning, networks, Social Media

Facilitators: charles max, jun song, Katerina Zourou

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16 September 2012

Winner of the Competition "Teaching with social media in classroom settings"

The award winning ceremony took place on September 25, in Warsaw, at the celebration of the European Day of Languages. Ceri Anwen James was the winner of the competition aimed at documenting how language teachers use social media in their teaching practice.

The selection of the 10 best practice is available on our showcase and on a colorful brochure waiting for you to download it here!

Ceri’s teaching practice is displayed here. She has been rewarded with a €1000 prize, for technical equipment of her choice, plus all expenses covered to travel to Warsaw in September 2012 for the award ceremony.

The award winning ceremony was part of the final conference of the Language Learning and Social Media european network. The Programme of the conference can be found here. Here is a group picture in the lovely old town!

31 July 2012

Winner of the Competition "Social Media in Informal Language Learning"

Our competition aimed at documenting how language learners use social media for language learning in daily life, outside formal teaching contexts, has now its winner!. From a total of 38 interview videos, based on the votes of the jury and the ‘Likes’ votes Vimeo channel our winning interviewee is Claire Apostolidou, 30 yrs old, from Xanthi, Greece. The winner will be rewarded with a €1000 prize, for technical equipment of her choice, plus all expenses covered to travel to Warsaw in September 2012 for the award ceremony. Watch her video here!

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Forum	Topics	Posts	Last post
Forum of Empowering future language learners: Formal and informal language learning through social media	2	17	37 weeks 2 days ago by Pierre-Antoine Ullmo

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25 March 2013 | Visits: 1573 | Rating: No votes yet

Registration now open for online training courses on the use of social media aimed at LLP Projects

Country: International

Are you a Lifelong Learning project manager? Looking to expand your social media tool kit? Web2LLP offers a 10-hour online Social Media course to LLP project managers during April-May 2013.

Tags Social Media, open course, online courses

24 May 2012 | Visits: 2274 | Rating: No votes yet

Special Issue “Social media and language learning: (r)evolution?/ Médias sociaux et apprentissage des langues : (r)évolution ?” .

Country: Luxembourg

Through the freely available selected papers of the peer-reviewed ALSIC journal, this special issue explores which elements of the social-technical landscape of social media in language education bring something new, and which of them represent...

Tags language learning, ICT in education

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22 January 2012 | Visits: 5663 | Rating: No votes yet

Area of interest: Schools, Training & Work, Learning & Society

Teaching with social media in classroom settings: Top ten practices from teachers around Europe

Author(s): Bereti Dora, jun song

This brochure presents the 10 best practices from the “Teachers’ competition for social media use in formal language learning contexts”, run throughout 2011. Now that we have highlighted current good practices through the competition, this special...

Tags: language learning, formal learning, Web 2.0, Social Media, ICT

31 July 2011 | Visits: 3819 | Rating: 0.1/5

Area of interest: Schools, Training & Work, Learning & Society

Young people with fewer opportunities learning languages informally: perceptions and uses of ICT and social media

Author(s): laia.canals, Carsten Mohr Mohr, Katerina Zourou, Victoria Antoniadou

We hope that this study will be of interest to language teachers, teacher trainers and also to individuals working with younger people with fewer opportunities in youth centres and schools, as it sheds light on how this population use and practice...

Tags: Informal learning, ICT, Social Media, Web 2.0

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23 December 2010 | Visits: 2284 | Rating: No votes yet

Publication | Study

Social media and language learning: beliefs, attitudes and uses in Latvia, Poland and Romania

On a basis of approximately 60 interviews carried out in Latvia, Poland and Romania with people of varying degrees of computer use and familiarity with web 2.0 technologies, we will attempt to answer the following questions, based on mixed method...

Country: Pan European

Tags: language learning

02 September 2010 | Visits: 2586 | Rating: No votes yet

Publication | Study

Study: language learning: resources and networks

The study sheds some light on the changing landscape that web 2.0. and emerging technologies trigger on language resources, materials and methods. Also available in French

Country: Pan European

Available languages: en

Tags: LS6

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17 May 2012

Interview with Katerina Zourou

Katerina is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of computer supported collaborative language...

Tags: e-learning, collaborative learning, Research, language learning

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Web 2.0 Training materials for language teachers

Teacher training materials in Latvian, Polish and Romanian are available for download (by...

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Quotes from our debates

by Ruth Illman (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Both inclusion and exclusion can take so many different forms and that they can be the results of very different kinds of circumstances. Lack of motivation is something totally different than lack of resources and infra-structure, and these problems need to be met in different ways.

by Melinda Dooly (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

I've been trying to find examples of best practice using social media for those 'non-digital natives' - especially senior citizens. It seems to me that with the focus of EU on life-long learning and a corollary focus on senior citizens (is that the politically correct word?) that there is very little material in this field. It's almost as if it's assumed that they can't benefit from social media?

by Dan Roggenkamp (Taiwan)

I have found that people use social media, by your definition, very differently from place to place, culture to culture, economic group to economic group, age group, and on and on. More importantly, I think usage trends precede technological development, or they at least leap frog each other. And this also varies tremendously between socio-economic-regional-ethic groups.

by Jason West (Languages Out There Ltd)

The challenge for language education is probably to become an enabler via use of technology rather than to see technology in the context of the old teaching paradigm.