Technology, Mediation, and Second Language Acquisition: Research and Praxis

APLING 596D, SUMMER 2002: http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng596d

Steve Thorne | Office, 304a Sparks, 814-863-7036 | Pennsylvania State University

Description: Participants in this survey course will interrogate research as well as a variety of approaches to the use of technology in FL/L2 teaching and learning. We will read research relating to foreign and second language acquisition, sociocultural and activity theory, digital pedagogy, and the application of multimedia and computer-mediated communication in language educational contexts. Relating the following areas to language education, we will address issues of intercultural communication, communication theory, globalization, identity as they relate to developing research projects and pedagogical innovation.

Course Requirements: Participation in class activities and discussion A 5-7 page paper outlining one of the following: 1) a research project you would like to carry out, or 2) a pedagogical intervention or technology product you would like to develop.

Texts and Study Materials: All of the course readings are available on the web (linked directly off the 596d on-line syllabus: language.la.psu.edu/aplng596d), at Electronic Reserves in library, and available as hard copy in the Summer Institute office (5 Sparks Building).

Mon:

July 1

• Introductions, overview of the course, themes and possibilities
• Acting as agents for innovation

Background: History of the Internet

1. "What is" the Internet from whatis.com:
   • http://searchWebManagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid27_gci212370,00.html
2. Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The Virtual Community. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
   • Chapter 3: Visions and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book

Perspectives onTechnology Use in Language Education

READINGS

1. Kern, R. & Warschauer, M. (2000). Theory and practice of network-based language teaching. In M. Warschauer & R. Kern (Eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press.
   • http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/nblt-intro.html
2. Warschauer, M. (1997).Computer-mediated collaborative learning: Theory and practice. Modern Language Journal, 81(3), p. 470-481.
   • http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/cmcl.html
3. Thorne, S. (to appear). Cultural historical activity theory and the object of innovation To appear in New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Oliver St. John, Kees van Esch, & Eus Schalkwijk (Eds). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt.(Germany).
   • http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng496d/thorneinnov.html

ADDITIONAL READINGS

1. Thorne, S. (1999).Chapter 3: Educational and foreign/second language uses of computer-mediation: A review of research. In: An activity theoretical analysis of foreign language electronic discourse. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
   • http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/ThorneDissChap3.html
2. Warschauer, M., & Healey, D. (1998). Computers and language learning: An overview. Language Teaching, 31, 57-71.
   • http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/overview.html

Curious about Internet usage by language? Internet and languages

Information Ecologies; Anti-Virtuality; Cultures of Use

1. Nardi, Bonnie, & O'Day, Vicki. (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. Read Chapters 2 & 4.
   • http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_5/nardi_contents.html
2. Miller, Daniel, and Slater, Don. (2000). The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. New York: Berg Publishers. Read "Summary of Findings" and "Chapter 1".
   • Parially on-line at: http://ethnonet.gold.ac.uk/index.htm
3. Thorne, S. (2000). Beyond Bounded Activity Systems: Heterogeneous Cultures in Instructional Uses of Persistent Conversation. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA., 2000.
   • http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/cmchicss33.html

CMC and Language Education

1. Herring, Susan. (1999). Interactional coherence in CMC. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (4) June 1999.
   • http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol4/issue4/herring.html
2. Knobel, M., Lankshear, C., Honan, E., Crawford, J. (1998). The wired world of second- language education. In I. Snyder (ed.), Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era. New York: Routledge.
   • Electronic Reserve
3. Kern, R. G. (1995). Restructuring classroom interaction with networked computers: Effects on Quantity and Characteristics of Language Production. Modern Language Journal 79/4:457-476.
   • Electronic Reserve

ADDITIONAL READINGS

1. Bregman, A, & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Radicals of Presentation in Persistent Conversation. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences, January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii.
   • http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/HICSS01_radicals.html
2. Ortega, L. (1997). Processes and outcomes in networked classroom interaction: Defining the research agenda for L2 computer-assisted classroom discussion. Language Learning & Technology, 1/1: 82-93.
   • http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/vol1num1/ortega/default.html
3. Blake, R. (2000). Computer mediated communication: A window on L2 Spanish interlanguage. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 120-136.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol4num1/blake/default.html

• Scientific American review
• World Wide Words review

Intercultural Communication and Second Language Learning

1. Thorne, S. (forthcoming). Artifacts and Cultures of Use in Intercultural Communication. Submitted to Language Learning and Technology.
   • http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng596d/LLT_Thorne2002.html
2. Furstenberg, G., Levet, S. (2001). Giving a Virtual Voice to the Silent Language of Culture: The Cultura Project. Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 55-102.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num1/furstenberg/default.html
3. Belz, J. (2002). Social Dimensions of Telecollaborative Foreign Language Study. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 60-81.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol6num1/BELZ/default.html

ADDITIONAL READINGS

1. Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. (2001). Foreign Language Learning as Global Communicative Practice. In D. Block and D. Cameron (eds.) Language Learning and Teaching in the Age of Globalization. London: Routledge.
   • http://language.la.psu.edu/~thorne/KramschThorne.html
2. Müller-Hartmann, A. (2000). The role of tasks in promoting intercultural learning in electronic learning networks. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 129-147.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol4num2/muller/default.html

Check-out the French-American telecollaboration project at MIT: CULTURA

Look at Découvrir Berkeley! , the University of California at Berkeley through the eyes of a second semester French class (1994!)

Multimedia

1. Kramsch, C., Anderson, R. (1999). Teaching text and context through multimedia. Language Learning & Technology, 2/2: 31-42.
   • http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/vol2num2/article1/index.html
2. Chun, D., Plass, J. (2000). Networked Multimedia Environments for Second Language Acquisition. In M. Warschauer, & R. Kern (eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
   • Electronic Reserve
3. Godwin-Jones, B. (2001). Emering Technologies: Language Testing Tools and Technologies. Language Learning & Technology Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 8-12.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num2/emerging/default.html

Location Independent Teaching & Learning

1. Musumeci, D. (forthcoming). The use of instructional technology in high enrollment foreign language courses: Implications for teaacher education and communicative language teaching. In S. Savignon (ed.), Interpreting communicative language teaching: Contexts and concerns in teacher education. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
   • Electronic Reserve
2. Wegerif, Rupert. (1998). The Social Dimension of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Volume 2, Issue 1.
   • http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/vol2_issue1/wegerif.htm
3. Ehrmann, S. (2001). Improving the Outcomes of Higher Education: Learning From Past Mistakes.
   • http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/Visions/Improving_Outcomes.html

Sum-up, Continuations, Presentations

1. Scholarly activities in computer-assisted language learning: Development, pedagogical innovations, and research. Joint Policy Statements of CALICO, EUROCALL, AND IALLT, Arising from a Research Seminar at the University of Essen, Germany 30 April-1 May 1999.
   • http://www.calico.org/CALL_document.html
2. Rheingold, H. (1999). Look who's talking: The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar. WIRED, Archive 7.01, January 1999.
   • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html

Additional Topics, Tools, Issues, and Resources

Special Topic: Words words words (vocabulary acquisition)

1. Chun, D., Plass, J. (1996). Effects of multimedia annotations on vocabulary acquisition. Modern Language Journal 80: 183-198.
2. Groot, P. (2000). Computer assisted second language vocabulary acquisition. Language Learning & Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 60-81.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol4num1/groot/default.html

Special Topic: Computer-based Language Evaluation and Testing

1. Language Learning & Technology Special Issue on "Computer-Assisted Language Testing"
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num2/default.html

Special Topic: Corpus-based Language Education

1. Language Learning & Technology Special Issue on "Using Corpora in Language Teaching and Learning"
   • http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/default.html

Special Topic: Critical Pedagogy, Technology, and Education

1. Lankshear, C., Peters, M., Knobel, M. (1996). Critical pedagogy in cyberspace. In H. Giroux, C. Lankshear, P. McLaren, and M. Peters (eds.), Counternarratives: Cultural studies and critical pedagogies in postmodern spaces. New York: Routledge, 149-188.

Special Topic: Presentation of Self/Selves; Power and the Internet

1. Chester, Andrea, & Gwynne, Gillian. (1998). Online Teaching: Encouraging Collaboration through Anonymity. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (2) December 1998.
   • http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue2/chester.html
2. Spears, R., & Lee, M. (1994). Panacea or Panopticon? The Hidden Power in Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research 21/4: 427-459.
   • In reader
3. Walther, Joseph. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction. Communication Research 23/1: 3-43.
   • In reader
4. Turke, Sherry. (1996). Who Am We? Wired, 4, 1, January 1996.
   • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/turkle.html
5. Bays, H. (1999). Framing and face in Internet exchanges: A socio-cognitive approach.
   • http://viadrina.euv-frankfurt-o.de/%7Ewjournal/bays.htm

Special Topic: Using MOOs for writing and composition

1. Day, Michael. (1996). Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Writing Classes in the MOO.Kairos, 1/2.
   • http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/3.html
2. Harris, Leslie. (1996). Writing Spaces: Using MOOs to Teach Composition and Literature. Kairos, 1/2.
   • http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/3.html
3. Bennahum, David. (1994). Fly Me To the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality. Lingua Franca 4/4 - May/June 1994.
   • http://www.linguafranca.com/9405/moo.htm

Special Topic: Technology and Heritige Language Revitalization

1. Special Issue Technology and Indigenous Languages. Language Learning and Technology, Volume 6, Number 2 May 200.
   • http://llt.msu.edu/
2. Warschauer, M. (1998). Technology and indigenous language revitalization: Analyzing the experience of Hawai'i. Canadian Modern Language Review, 55(1), 140-161.
   • http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/revitalization.html

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