Winter Storm - Lara Bryfonski / Leveraging technology for communicative and task-based language learning
Winter Storm - Lara Bryfonski / Leveraging technology for communicative and task-based language learning
Wednesday January 20, Winters Storm has Georgetown's Lara Bryfonski to discuss her work on "Leveraging technology for communicative and task-based language learning." The abstract is below.
Given the explosive growth of technology in second language (L2) classrooms and the rapid expansion of digitally mediated instruction, there has been growing interest in how technology can be meaningfully integrated with research-based communicative approaches like task-based language teaching (TBLT). TBLT is founded on the idea that language learning tasks should reflect real-world language use and create a genuine need to communicate in the target language (Long, 2005; 2015). As technology increasingly mediates how learners interact, collaborate, and receive feedback in their target language(s), it is critical to explore how technology shapes task design, interactional processes, and learning outcomes.