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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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 Lulju 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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25 March 2013 | 1893 | Għad m'hemmx voti
Internazzjonali

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. 

24 May 2012 | 2527 | Għad m'hemmx voti
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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...

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22 January 2012 | 5996 | Għad m'hemmx voti
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...
31 Lulju 2011 | 4082 | 0.1/5
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...

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23 December 2010 | 2550 | Għad m'hemmx voti
Publication | Studju
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...
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02 September 2010 | 2740 | Għad m'hemmx voti
Publication | Studju
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
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17 May 2012
Katerina is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of computer supported collaborative language...

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