Lo sviluppo delle abilità orali
nei mondi virtuali.
Esempi dal progetto AVALON
Luisa Panichi - Anna Lazzari
Firenze, 28 maggio 2010
Access to Virtual and Action
Learning live ON-line (AVALON)
Luisa Panichi, CLI, Università di Pisa, Italy
Avalon Teacher Training Course
Anna Lazzari
The AVALON project
• Access to Virtual and Action Learning Live
Online
• A two year multilateral and transversal project
funded under KA3 (ICT) of the LLP of the
EACEA.
• Partnership: 26 European partners
• 10 state funded universities
• 16 other public and private organisations
Experiment with and
explore virtual
worlds for language
education
Design and run a
teacher training
course
Create and test
activities
Design and run
Language courses
Provide models and best
practice guidelines
Virtual worlds
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MUVE’s (Multi-user virtual environments)
3 Dimensional: movement
Avatar: a 3D rendering of yourself
Games (role play): The Sims
Gaming: WoW (World of Warcraft)
Socialising and entertainment: Active Worlds,
Second Life
• Highly immersive and participatory
Common Learning Objectives
• Learning to use virtual worlds for language learning, both
as a tool for communication and a source of information
(technical competence/physical space);
• Collaborating with people from other language and
cultural backgrounds in an online environment towards a
common goal (social and intercultural competence/social
space);
• Communicating effectively with others in meaningful and
authentic tasks (linguistic competence);
• Acquiring new specific knowledge (i.e. content
acquisition).
AVALON Courses
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The Debating course (English B1-B2)
Business English course (B1-B2)
The Italian Beginner’s course (A1-A2) “Alzati e cammina”
German for Beginners
The Tandem Catering course (Spanish/English)
North Sami
Teacher training course
Lectures/formal presentations
Group work
Linguistic warm-up gymnastics
The ”Buddy system”
Tandem
Sami – illustration of ’locative’
Avalon Teacher Training Course
• 6 settimane: 15 febbraio – 26 marzo
• Avalon Learning Island – Moodle
• 20 (17) trainees da 15 (14) Paesi europei
• 2 gruppi – 2 tutor x gruppo
Avalon Teacher Training Course
• Paesi coinvolti:
Austria, Croazia, Finlandia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda,
Italia, Lussemburgo, Polonia, Portogallo, Regno Unito,
Serbia, Spagna, Svezia, Ucraina
• Lingue: dall’inglese al North Sami
• Tutors: Turchia, US – Spagna, Portogallo
ATTC – Concetti chiave
SL: Social World
Gilly Salmon’s “5 Stages”
• Identità
1. Access & Motivation
• Comunità
2. Socialisation
• Modalità
3. Information Exchange
• Spazialità
4. Knowledge Construction
• Creatività
5. Autonomous Development
ATTC – Concetti chiave
Modalità = Multimodalità
Prossemica: distanza, gestualità, voce
Canali comunicativi:
• Text chat
• Voice chat
- Mondo
- Gruppo
- Personale
- Scambi registrati e successivamente analizzati
ATTC – Concetti chiave
Spazialità ->
Mondo virtuale = visuale
• Stimoli provenienti da vari canali
-Adatto a ogni stile di apprendimento
-Rischio di overload
ATTC – Concetti chiave
Creatività
• Modalità sincrona
– compresenza
• Modalità asincrona
– permanenza
Conclusioni
Sviluppare la conoscenza delle lingue nei mondi virtuali
- sicuramente possibile, soprattutto per le abilità orali
Diversità di convenzioni
- sociali
- paraverbali (turn taking)
- extraverbali (body language)
Nuove “literacies” (digital literacies)
Sfide non impedimenti
Thank you
Why not visit the Avalon
website: www.avalonlearning.eu
...or Avalon in SL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/AVALON%20Learning/81/226/41
...or the Avalon ning:
http://avalon-project.ning.com/
Invitation to AVALON
Webpage
http://avalonlearning.eu/
Avalon in SL
http://slurl.com/secondlife/AVALON%20Learning/81/226/41
NING
http://avalon-project.ning.com/
Luisa Panichi, Local Project Leader, University of Pisa, Italy
[email protected]; [email protected]
Zeynep Onat-Stelma, Avalon Teacher Training Course, University of
Manchester, UK
[email protected]