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ISBN13: 978-1-908416-23-0 (Ebook, PDF, colour) ISBN13: 978-1-908416-24-7 (Ebook, EPUB, colour) Legal deposit, Ireland: The National Library of Ireland, The Library of Trinity College, The Library of the University of Limerick, The Library of Dublin City University, The Library of NUI Cork, The Library of NUI Maynooth, The Library of University College Dublin, The Library of NUI Galway. Legal deposit, United Kingdom: The British Library. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A cataloguing record for this book is available from the British Library. Legal deposit, France: Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Dépôt légal: janvier 2015. Table of contents vi Notes on contributors xiv Acknowledgements xv Foreword 1 10 years of the LLAS elearning symposium: An introduction Kate Borthwick, Erika Corradini, and Alison Dickens Section 1. Language learning in new contexts: mobile learning 11 A journey to the East? Trials and tribulations of a personal journey with technology and languages Marion Sadoux 21 Technological diversity: A case study into language learners’ mobile technology use inside and outside the classroom Billy Brick and Tiziana Cervi-Wilson 31 Podcasting as a language teaching and learning tool Fernando Rosell-Aguilar Section 2. Collaboration and open learning 43 A reflective e-learning journey from the dawn of CALL to web 2.0 intercultural communicative competence (ICC) Marina Orsini-Jones 57 Learning to swim in new waters: A meta-narrative about the design and implementation of a virtual learning environment for language learning and teaching Teresa MacKinnon iii Table of contents 67 From autonomous to peer e-learning – How the FReE Team turned ePortfolio into a social network between first and final-year modern languages students Jean-Christophe Penet 77 OER (re)use and language teachers’ tacit professional knowledge: Three vignettes Tita Beaven 89 Dyslexia in modern language learning: A case study on collaborative task-design for inclusive teaching and learning in an online context Anna Motzo and Debora Quattrocchi Section 3. Fostering creativity in the classroom 105 Reflections on a personal journey in learning design Julie Watson 117 Collaborative production of learning objects on French literary works using the LOC software Christine Penman 127 Digital English – me, online, writing & academia Ania Rolińska 139 The grammar movie project Edith Kreutner 151 Tapping technology in creating product development studies: Reflections on an ESP-business project Aiden Yeh iv Table of contents 163 Using Blackboard Wiki pages as a shared space for simulating the professional translation work environment Juliet Vine Section 4. New tools, new practices 175 Connected language learning: A tutor’s perspective Benoît Guilbaud 185 The e-learning tool Voxopop and its benefits on oral skills: Activities for final year students of German Sascha Stollhans 193 Sound literature: The pedagogy of reconnection through student- authored audiobooks in the Spanish curriculum Susana Lorenzo-Zamorano 203 Learning foreign languages with ClipFlair: Using captioning and revoicing activities to increase students’ motivation and engagement Rocío Baños and Stavroula Sokoli 215 FLAX: Flexible and open corpus-based language collections development Alannah Fitzgerald, Shaoqun Wu, and María José Marín 228 Name index v Notes on contributors Editors Kate Borthwick is a Senior Academic Coordinator for elearning within the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. She is an experienced developer of online learning materials and an e-tutor and currently coordinates LLAS activity in relation to elearning, including running the annual elearning symposium. She has managed a number of projects related to OER and oversees two repositories of OER for LLAS: LanguageBox and HumBox. She advises on the online development for the University of Southampton’s MLANG course, manages the annual online pre-sessional courses, and was the course designer for the University of Southampton/British Council FutureLearn MOOC: ‘Understanding Language: learning and teaching.’ Her research interests include OER and learning design. Erika Corradini is an academic coordinator within the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Erika’s research work is centred on the transformations that languages are subject to throughout history with a special focus on English and its cognates. Before coming to LLAS in 2009, Erika lectured in History of the English Language and Early English Texts and taught modern and old languages. At LLAS, Erika manages projects in the areas of translation and interpreting, community languages, multilingualism, and languages in schools and higher education. She assists in coordination of the LLAS elearning symposium and has been involved in LLAS projects related to OER, focussing on copyright and IPR issues in open access. She tweets at @eri_llas. Alison Dickens is Assistant Director of the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. Alison is a modern linguist who has worked in education for 25 years in a range of language teaching, academic development and project management roles. She currently directs the LLAS academic development programme, develops and delivers training in a number of areas including elearning, language teaching and internationalisation. She was part of the vi Notes on contributors founding team who oversaw the first elearning symposium and has been involved with all subsequent events. She is Deputy Director of Enterprise within Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, and manages the university’s language courses within the LifeLong Learning programme. Invited contributors Benoît Guilbaud is a Senior French language tutor and course co-ordinator at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He has worked in Higher Education since 2007 after studying and training at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (France) and Cardiff (UK). He has taught on modules in French for medicine, business and law, as well as general French language. He has presented at a number of conferences on the topics of language teaching, digital literacy and networked learning. He was voted ‘Most Innovative Lecturer’ at the Manchester Student Union Teaching Awards 2014. He tweets as @BenGuilbaud. Marina Orsini-Jones is Course Director for the MA in English Language Teaching in the Department of English and Languages at Coventry University where she also coordinates the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Network in the Faculty of Business, Environment and Society. She has published work on e-learning innovation, language awareness, CALL, digital literacies and e-portfolio-supported personal development planning. She has delivered numerous papers on e-language learning at national and international conferences and organised various e-learning workshops in collaboration with staff at LLAS. She is currently investigating the features of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).