Profiling Language Learners in Hybrid Learning Contexts: Learners' Perceptions

Autor/inn/en	Lintunen, Pekka; Mutta, Maarit; Pelttari, Sanna
Titel	Profiling Language Learners in Hybrid Learning Contexts: Learners' Perceptions
Quelle	In: The EUROCALL Review, 25 (2017) 1, S.61-75 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1695-2618
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Majors (Students); Technological Literacy; Informal Education; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Learning Experience; Student Surveys; Online Surveys; Task Analysis; Age Differences; Technology Uses in Education; Independent Study; Social Media; Computer Assisted Instruction; Elementary Secondary Education; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Technisches Wissen; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Telekommunikationstechnik; Lernerfahrung; Schülerbefragung; Aufgabenanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Selbststudium; Soziale Medien; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Finnland
Abstract	This article discusses formal and informal foreign language learning before university level. The focus is on beginning university students' perceptions of their earlier learning experiences, especially in digital contexts. Language learners' digital competence is a part of their everyday lives, but its relationship to learning in and outside educational settings is still relatively seldom studied. The article discusses learning in formal and informal (i.e., hybrid) contexts and digital learning profiles--that is, a learner's own personalized style in acquiring language competence by creating affordances in personalized digital or mobile learning environments--in primary and secondary education identified in a language learning survey. The results are based on an online survey sent to all beginning university students majoring in languages at a Finnish university (N = 87/192), which was complemented by a short narrative task (N = 47) a few months later focusing on earlier education and the use of language learning technologies. The results suggest that the use of technologies seems to differ between extramural and in-school language learning. The learners were well aware of various possibilities to create affordances for learning, and their own involvement increased with age. Most participants had positive attitudes towards the use of technologies to enhance language learning, but critical views emphasized the importance of inspiring contact teaching. Three different digital learning profiles were identified: a digiage learner, a hybrid learner, and an in-school learner. These can be useful when planning differentiated foreign language instruction. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). EUROCALL Headquarters, School of Modern Languages, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland, UK. Tel: +34-67-943-1283; Web site: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01