Asynchronous Discussion Boards as Assessment Tool Neil Hughes

Asynchronous Discussion Boards as Assessment Tool Neil Hughes: Director of Modern Language Teaching

Asynchronous Discussion Boards

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Technical Features • Claims • Assessment • Business and Society in Spain

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Communication tool • Asynchronous • Threads • Archive • Embellish • Guidelines

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Spanish • Academic register/no emoticons • Word limit (maximum 300 words per message/minimum 2000 words in total) • 2 messages/timeliness • Respect

Asynchronous Discussion Boards General literature • Space and time • Collaboration (Garrison & Vaughan) • Voice • Assessment (Johnson, 2005)

Asynchronous Discussion Boards Language Learning • Brooke, M (2012) • “extremely powerful environments for second language learning” • Quantity and quality • Noticing and incidental learning

Asynchronous Discussion Boards “Diary studies show students in the UK allocate their time largely to assessed tasks and that this becomes a more narrow focus over time as they become experienced students, allocating as little as 5% of their time to un-assessed study tasks by the final year” (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004, p. 13)

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Assessment • Expectations • Marking rubric • Writing workshop • Lexico-grammatical features of Spanish academic writing

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Facilitator • Instructors often dominate debates (Harrison & Selfe, 1998) • Question: Ice-breaker, cause-effect

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Participation • 100% • Words: 1914 -4038 • Av: 2802 • Contributions per question: 4 -11 • Av: 5. 8

Asynchronous Discussion Boards • Quality • Appropriate academic register • Discipline specific • Specialised and distinctive • Authentic texts

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