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New Case Studies of Openness in and Beyond the Language Classroom New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom Edited by Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, and Barbara Sawhill Published by Research-publishing.net, a not-for-profit association Voillans, France, [email protected] © 2019 by Editors (collective work) © 2019 by Authors (individual work) New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom Edited by Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, and Barbara Sawhill Publication date: 2019/07/26 Rights: the whole volume is published under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International (CC BY-NC-ND) licence; individual articles may have a different licence. Under the CC BY-NC-ND licence, the volume is freely available online (https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.37.9782490057511) for anybody to read, download, copy, and redistribute provided that the author(s), editorial team, and publisher are properly cited. 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Table of contents v Notes on contributors xvii Foreword Carl S. Blyth 1 Introduction to new case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, and Barbara Sawhill Section 1. Creating and using OERs 11 An inclusionary open access textbook for Portuguese Carlos Pio and Eduardo Viana da Silva 23 Creating and implementing open educational resources for the Spanish as a Heritage Language classroom Evelyn Durán Urrea and Jocelly G. Meiners 37 Italian Open Education: virtual reality immersions for the language classroom Margherita Berti 49 Embedding OERs for the development of information literacy in the foreign language classroom Odette Gabaudan and Susanna Nocchi 65 Learning in the open: integrating language and culture through student curation, virtual exchange, and OER Lionel Mathieu, Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Robert Godwin-Jones, Laura Middlebrooks, and Natalia Boykova Section 2. Working in open spaces 85 Building bridges not walls – Wikipedia in Translation Studies Ewan McAndrew and Lorna Campbell iii Table of contents 101 Working with online communities: translating TED Talks Anna Comas-Quinn and Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez 115 Repurposing MOOCs for self-regulated language learning in an English for academic purposes course Barbara Conde Gafaro 129 Assessing language student interaction and engagement via Twitter Olivia Kelly 145 ‘Your language development’: harnessing openness to integrate independent language learning into the curriculum Tita Beaven Section 3. Openness and teacher development 159 Open practices as a catalyst for language teachers’ professional development Patricia Daniels 173 Empowering teachers and learners in and beyond classrooms: focus on OEPs in reading activities Fanny Meunier, Alice Meurice, and Julie Van de Vyver 187 Exploratory practice: a way of opening up access to research by classroom teachers and learners Assia Slimani-Rolls 199 Author index iv Notes on contributors 1. Editors Anna Comas-Quinn is Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. She has published on technology enhanced and mobile language learning, teacher development, and open educational resources and practices, and co-edited the first book on open practice in language teaching, Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom. Her current research examines the potential of using open online volunteer communities and projects in the teaching of languages and translation. Ana Beaven teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Bologna Language Centre. She obtained a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick. Her main fields of interest are foreign language teaching and learning, the use of technology in language teaching, open educational resources and practices, and intercultural education. She co-edited the first volume of Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom, and has been involved in various European projects, including WebCEF, CEFcult, and IEREST, which she coordinated. She is presently involved in the RICH- Ed project and the SAREP (Study Abroad Research in European Perspective) COST Action. Barbara Sawhill is Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College (US). In addition to her teaching practise, she is also the Spanish Language Education Coordinator for the NPR distributed Spanish language podcast Radio Ambulante (http://radioambulante. org). In this role, she works with teachers from around the world to create open educational resource materials to accompany the podcast for use in the classroom. She was delighted to be a part of this second edition of case studies and to work with her fellow co-editors, Ana and Anna. Barbara not-so-secretly hopes they will be able to have the opportunity to do this again in a few years. Barbara’s research interests include language pedagogy, task-based learning and teaching listening. She writes about her teaching practise here: http:// languagelabunleashed.org. v Notes on contributors 2. Reviewers Claudia Borghetti is Research Fellow in Language Learning and Teaching at the Department of Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy. She holds an MA in language and intercultural learning through telecollaboration from the University of Bologna, and a PhD in foreign language teaching from the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2012 to 2015, she was the project manager of the IEREST Project (Intercultural Education Resources for Erasmus Students and their Teachers, LLP 2007-2012, http://www.ierest-project.eu/). She also participated in the Erasmus+ project on multilingualism and interculturality ATIAH (Approaches and Tools for Innovative ‘Internationalisation At Home’, https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atiah/). She is member of the Management Committee of the COST Action SAREP, http:// www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15130). Claudia researches on intercultural language learning and teaching, teaching Italian as a foreign/second language, language socialisation abroad, language learning and teaching in a sociocultural perspective, and (academic) writing. Kate Borthwick is Principal Enterprise Fellow (TEL) in Modern Languages and Linguistics and Director of Programme Development (online education) in the University’s Digital Learning team, at the University of Southampton. She leads the University’s MOOC programme and has been the course designer on a number of MOOCs. She has extensive experience in online course/materials design and tutoring. She has devised and managed a range of projects exploring open educational practice, the use of open educational resources by language teachers, and the development of open educational resource repositories. She also teaches on PG programmes related to TEL in Modern Languages. Todd Bryant is the Language Technology Specialist at Dickinson College and one of COERLL’s “Voices for Openness”. He is the creator of the Merlot Classics Award winning open source website “The Mixxer”, www.language-exchanges. org, which allows language teachers and students to find partners for language exchanges via Skype. Todd also teaches occasionally in the German department vi Notes on contributors and has written about his experience using social software and games. You can find him on Twitter @bryantt and @MixxerSite. Regine Hampel is Professor of Open and Distance Language Learning at the Open University, UK, and Associate Dean (Research Excellence) in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education, and Language Studies. Her research explores the impact of using new technologies for language learning and teaching, focussing on the affordances of digital media, task design, learner interaction and communication,
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