Francisca Maria Ivone
About
Francisca Maria Ivone teaches at the Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia. She researches ELT, Technology-Enhanced Language Learning, Extensive Listening and Viewing, Extensive Reading, learning autonomy, and collaborative learning. During her language study and teaching years, she used and benefited from Extensive Reading (ER), Listening (EL), and Viewing (EV), as well as the use of technology in language teaching and learning. She now teaches ER classes and incorporates ER, EL, and EV programmes into her language skill courses. She also teaches technology in language teaching and learning and ELT courses.Sessions
Synchronous (Onsite) Technology-Enhanced Collaboration: Possibilities and Challenges in Language Teaching and Learning more
Sat, Apr 29, 15:00-15:50 Asia/Seoul
Over the years, language teachers have tried to design diverse and innovative collaborative language learning activities around readily available technology in the hopes that it will make language learning more meaningful, fun, and efficient. Nevertheless, technology is known to facilitate and sometimes hinder various forms of collaboration among language learners in face-to-face, blended, and online learning contexts due to several technical and non-technical reasons. Moreover, language learners’ lack of knowledge and skills to work collaboratively with others often leads to “unsuccessful” collaboration. This presentation explores some of the opportunities and challenges of employing technology-enhanced collaboration and emphasizes the importance of introducing language learners to the basic principles of collaborative learning that are often taken for granted. Several examples of collaborative face-to-face and online language learning activities are used to illustrate the intricacies of collaborative language learning design and highlight some lessons learned from the language classrooms.
Synchronous (Onsite) Extensive Listening and Viewing in Listening Courses more
Sun, Apr 30, 10:00-10:50 Asia/Seoul
Extensive Listening and Viewing, unlike the more established extensive reading approach, is still in its infancy but has gained popularity in the last decade. Yet, many continue to mix up “extensive listening” with “extended listening” and “intensive listening,” and believe that viewing and reading should not be included in foreign/second language listening activities. A reformation is necessary to make language teachers and learners aware that improving learners’ proficiency in the target language requires more than a couple of hours of intensive listening classes. This presentation will first define extensive listening and viewing and explain why they are important. It will then show how extensive listening and viewing are integrated into intensive listening courses taught at a university’s English Department in Indonesia, making students not only more aware of what they need to listen to and the techniques they can use to suit their needs and listening style, but also more motivated and confident in performing listening activities.