Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness: Research and Practice (eBook)

This book reports on and analyses the Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness Project, a unique project in the field of Foreign Language Learning and Telecollaboration till now in the world. It takes the existing research on telecollaborative learning, content and language integrated learning and e-learning and combines them into one coherent concept in which language acquisition and enhancement takes place through task-led research on the specific issue of 'Healthy Cities' by targeting language learners from around the world. The book delivers insights into the planning and the development of the project including collaborative task design and its underlying theoretical and research frameworks. It then goes on to reflect on how these underlying frameworks are developed further to broaden the existing paradigms of research in the field of telecollaborative language learning.

Tushar Chaudhuri is senior lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. He has taught German as a Foreign Language to university students in India, Germany and Hong Kong. His research interests include the impact of new technology in the university language classroom, the role of multilingualism in foreign language acquisition and telecollaborative language learning.  

Renia Lopez is an Assistant Professor at the department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her focus of interest is gestures, movements of the hands and arms co-occurring with speech, a modality used together with language to externalize the thought.

Valérie Martinez is a Lecturer of French at The University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Language and Culture Education. Her doctoral thesis is a multi-disciplinary dissertation on academic mobility and interculturality between Hong Kong and France. Her research areas focus on academic mobility, virtual mobility, interculturalism/interculturality, and discourse analysis.

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This book reports on and analyses the Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness Project, a unique project in the field of Foreign Language Learning and Telecollaboration till now in the world. It takes the existing research on telecollaborative learning, content and language integrated learning and e-learning and combines them into one coherent concept in which language acquisition and enhancement takes place through task-led research on the specific issue of "e;Healthy Cities"e; by targeting language learners from around the world. The book delivers insights into the planning and the development of the project including collaborative task design and its underlying theoretical and research frameworks. It then goes on to reflect on how these underlying frameworks are developed further to broaden the existing paradigms of research in the field of telecollaborative language learning.