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Real-time audio and email for fluency: promoting distance language learners' aural and oral skills via the Internet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Markus Kötter ,
Lesley Shield  and
Anne Stevens
Markus Kötter
Affiliation:
The Open University, UK
Lesley Shield
Affiliation:
The Open University, UK
Anne Stevens
Affiliation:
The Open University, UK
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The Open University (OU) is UK's largest modern foreign language learning provider with a current enrolment of approximetely 8000 students, all of whom study individually at home, at a distance from each other and their tutors. However, while most OU students work with trditional course material such as books, video- and audio-cassettes and face-to-face tutorials, research at the centre for Modern Languages (CML) has also investigated alternative methods in order to account for those learners who might be unable to attend face-to-face tutorials. The study described in this paper outlines work in progress that is part of a larger, long-term project seeking to establish a framework for the use of networking technologies in distance language learning with a particular emphasis onl the ldevelopment of scenarios – that is task design and learning environments – which will enable participants to improve their spoken and communication skills in the target language.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , September 1999 , pp. 55 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1999

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