Learning Analytics in the Language Classroom: Tips & Tools

Workshop completed. My friend Maria Diez Ortega and I completed a 3-hour online workshop for CALICO this year. We planned to attend CALICO conference where we could offer this workshop and another Show and Tell session about the Multiʻōlelo project. I also had my individual papers accepted. However, the pandemic changed almost everything and we […]

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An Infographic Introduction to Multiʻōlelo

I created this infographic to introduce Multiʻōlelo, a transmedia multilingual platform aiming to curate language-related matters in multiple languages from multiple voices. It was designed in PPTX, then uploaded on Google Slide to facilitate collaboration so that other team members can add translated slides in multi languages. You can see the link at the end of the infographic.

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[Initiative] Journal for PELT (Primary English Language Teaching)

In 2012, when I started working with a group of pre-service teachers at TNU School of Foreign Language, Vietnam, I decided to try out some new ideas and techniques. One of those was to ask students to take notes and reflect on what I had talked and we had discussed in the class. The notes would be shared on a common platform so that other students on the same cohort could read and contribute their own reflections.

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Technology-mediated task-based interaction: The role of modality

Paper published. Abstract: This exploratory study examines the extent to which mode differentially impacts the quantity and quality of interactional features in second language (L2) task-based interaction. Following a within-subject, repeated measures design, intermediate adult learners (n = 20) completed four (counter-balanced) tasks with a confederate interlocutor in the following conditions: audio-chat, video-chat, text-chat, and multimodal chat […]

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Motivation to learn languages other than English: A critical research synthesis

Paper published. Abstract: The primary purpose of this investigation was to put forward critical research synthesis as a qualitative alternative to meta-analysis in second language acquisition using as a case example studies published from 2005 to 2018 applying the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) to learners of languages other than English (LOTEs). Since L2MSS research […]

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