{"title":"Exploring foreign language anxiety and self-disclosure relationships in task design for e-tandem speaking practice","authors":"Marta Fondo, Iker Erdocia Iñiguez","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.812","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of videoconferencing tools in the 1990s provided language learners with opportunities to carry out speaking practice anytime and anywhere. However, the presence of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) in this interactional setting can hinder such ubiquitous benefits as FLA inhibits learning and communication in the Foreign Language (FL) (Horwitz, 2001). This article presents a case study developed in a five week e-tandem project in which 12 language learners (six Spanish and six English native speakers) participated via videoconference. Based on a mixed methods approach, the study explores the relationship between four different communicative task types with different levels of required Self-Disclosure (SD), the participants’ levels of SD and FLA, and the resulting SD elements present in the conversation. Results showed that the different task types seem to have an effect on participants linking FLA and SD. However, the real trigger for SD events was not the task but the learner’s characteristics and familiarity with the partner and topic.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114932762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Task graph based task-oriented dialogue system using dialogue map for second language learning","authors":"Oh-Woog Kwon, Young-Kil Kim, Yun-Kyung Lee","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.829","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a rule-based task-oriented dialogue system for second language learning and a knowledge extraction method which automatically extracts the training data for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and dialogue rules for dialogue management from a Dialogue Map (DM). The DM consists of turn-byturn utterances between the system and the learner. Therefore, the proposed method can automatically extend a new dialogue domain by constructing a dialogue map with a simple format. We constructed two dialogue maps for English and Korean, respectively, and implemented English and Korean task-oriented dialogue systems using the DMs. In the experiments, although the turn success rates are relatively low (78.1% in English and 78.76% in Korean), the task success rates are 90.83% in English and 99.17% in Korean. The systems constructed by the proposed method should enable learners to communicate successfully in the topic despite some mistakes in the system responses.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129152332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Make words click! Learning English vocabulary with clickers","authors":"Anne-Marie Sénécal, Vanessa Mezzaluna, W. Cardoso","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.852","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the effects of learner response systems (clickers) on the development of vocabulary knowledge in English (L2). Sixty-one Grade 8 learners divided in two groups participated in the experiment, which followed a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest research design. While the experimental group received a clicker-based treatment via PowerPoint presentations, the control group received identical treatment but without the clickers. Although there was no significant interaction between time and group at the time of the posttest, both groups improved over time, but with a trend favoring the Clicker Group.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130605986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning L2 pronunciation with a text-to-speech synthesizer","authors":"W. Cardoso","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114105869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marta Fondo, Pedro Jacobetty, Iker Erdocia Iñiguez
{"title":"Foreign language anxiety and self-disclosure analysis as personality traits for online synchronous intercultural exchange practice","authors":"Marta Fondo, Pedro Jacobetty, Iker Erdocia Iñiguez","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.813","url":null,"abstract":"Videoconferences are a perfect scenario for autonomous Foreign Language (FL) and intercultural speaking practices. However, it is also a threatening context as learners communicate in an FL, often with a stranger and about personal information and experiences. That may lead to increase Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among participants, affecting students’ learning experiences and even provoking drop-outs (Bailey, Onwuegbuzie, & Daley, 2003). This study aims to explore the relationship between FLA and Self-Disclosure (SD) as personality traits. The first indicators of the potential relationship between FLA and SD in online speaking practice were found by Fondo and Erdocia (2018) in which anxious learners showed a tendency to self-disclose as a means to manage their discomfort using the FL. Data was gathered in the first stage of a nine-week-synchronous oral Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) project between undergraduate business students from the United States, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131339270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“My robot is an idiot!” – Students’ perceptions of AI in the L2 classroom","authors":"Andrew Gallacher, Andrew Thompson, M. Howarth","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.815","url":null,"abstract":"Japanese university students (N=253) conversed with human and Artificially intelligent (AI) chatbot partners then recorded their perceptions of these interactions via open-ended written feedback. This data was qualitatively analyzed to gain a better understanding of the merits and demerits of using chatbots for English study from the students’ perspective. Results suggest that, in its current state, students perceive the chatbot used in this study as a novelty rather than a legitimate language-learning tool and that it lacks the richness of interaction they could achieve with their peers. Ultimately, it is argued that educators should be more critical of incorporating AI technology in the second/foreign language (L2) classroom before it is ready for use.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132732439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining student perceptions about smartphones to understand lack of acceptance of mobile-assisted language learning","authors":"O. Kennedy","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.826","url":null,"abstract":"Problematic smartphone usage has been widely recognized (e.g. AlBarashidi, Bouazza, & Jabur, 2015; Chóliz, 2012). However, few researchers have investigated the relationship between students’ feelings towards their smartphones and their acceptance of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL). This exploratory study of thirty-six Japanese high-school students sought to understand their overwhelming reluctance to use the popular language-learning application, Duolingo. Fewer than half of the students used the application, with several failing to even install it on their device. Small group interview discussions were conducted to clarify and gain insight into the participants’ feelings and motivations about the use of their smartphones.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122355982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advantages and disadvantages of digital storytelling assignments in EFL education in terms of learning motivation","authors":"N. Kasami","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.825","url":null,"abstract":"Digital storytelling is an educational practice which has attracted the attention of many experts. However, there has been little research on the disadvantages of digital storytelling assignments from the students’ perspectives in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education. Addressing difficulties or problems which are likely to occur in integrating digital storytelling in language learning would provide better insights for education in the future. Thus, this study aims to examine not only the advantages but also the disadvantages of introducing digital storytelling assignments in EFL education by focusing on learners’ motivation. To achieve the aim of this study, data was obtained from questionnaire surveys in six courses entitled ‘Information English’ for students in Japan. Though most students were motivated for learning with digital storytelling assignments, there were also some students who were less motivated. The findings from students’ comments revealed that it would be effective to provide specific instruction based on (1) proper guidance of effective narration, (2) the condition of having sufficient time to accomplish the assignment, (3) technical support, and (4) information ethics.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121543598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing English digital stories for global audiences","authors":"Yu-Feng Yang","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.856","url":null,"abstract":"Viewing digitally-mediated multimodal composing as a new literacy practice, this research investigates how English Language Learners (ELLs) serve as multimodal designers to reach a global audience. Grounded in the perspective of literacy as social practice and the notion of ‘designing’, it reveals that the two focal groups of this study employ local and global resources for multimodal designing. In addition, their family experience, literacy practices, video experiences, and their interactions with friends, instructors, and peers mediate how they select, expand, and orchestrate the cultural resources at their disposal. In relation to intercultural blending, this study reports that ELLs employ ‘authenticating strategies’ and ‘playful strategies’ to reach their global audience. This finding encourages us to reflect upon strategies that can be used to examine the emerging playful or nontraditional multimodal composing that the global youth continues to consume and produce.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123138902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a MOOC on personal language learning environments for digital language skills development","authors":"Marta Fondo, Angelos Konstantinidis","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2018.26.814","url":null,"abstract":"There is a mismatch between the availability of learning opportunities on the internet and the optimised use of them by learners. Disruptive technologies have always required time to be integrated into society to fully make use of their benefits. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Create your own Personal Language Learning Environment (PLLE)’ emerges from the willingness to provide language learners with digital and language skills for autonomous learning while fulfilling the research interests about exploring the learners’ needs, how they use the internet, and how they can become more autonomous. Following the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model for instructional design and connectivism principles, the study presents the design process of a MOOC which aims to integrate data gathering tools into course content in a way that allows iterative formative course evaluations not affecting the learning process.","PeriodicalId":138095,"journal":{"name":"Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters – short papers from EUROCALL 2018","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121070416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}