Web 2.0 Tasks in Action: EFL Learning in the U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2012

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Exploring topics that are personally relevant and interesting to young adult English as a foreign language (EFL) learners remains a core challenge in language teaching. At the same time, the advent of Web 2.0 applications has many repercussions for authentic language learning. The “U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2012” has addressed these questions by combining a close focus on the U.S. Presidential Election with an interactive project scenario. Over 1,400 students across Germany participated in this project and produced an election forecast for an assigned U.S. state based on a survey of regional news media and social network data. Their predictions were in many cases more accurate than those of major U.S. broadcasting networks.
This paper discusses the general educational potential of such projects in the contexts of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), intercultural learning, and learning in a task-based project environment. The authors have applied a multimodal qualitative approach to analyze tasks and learner perceptions of tasks in the context of the election project. In a first step, the micro-perspective of the perception of web-based tasks is investigated by example of one selected task cycle and a focus group of three learners. The second part of the analysis represents a bird’s-eye view on the learner products arising out of such tasks.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftAmerican Studies Journal
Ausgabenummer58
Anzahl der Seiten19
ISSN1433-5239
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2014

Zugehörige Projekte

  • Learner Perceptions of Web 2.0-Enhanced EFL Tasks - An Explorative Mixed-Methods Study on the U.S. Embassy School Election Project 2012

    Projekt: Dissertationsprojekt

  • US Election Project 2012 – A Social Media-based approach to teaching US Election 2012 in the German EFL classroom at secondary level

    Projekt: Praxisprojekt

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