Lo sviluppo delle abilit orali nei mondi virtuali

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 KA 3 (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 • • • MUVE’s (Multi-user virtual environments) 3 Dimensional: movement Avatar: a 3 D rendering of yourself Games (role play): The Sims Gaming: Wo. W (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 • • The Debating course (English B 1 -B 2) Business English course (B 1 -B 2) The Italian Beginner’s course (A 1 -A 2) “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%20 Learning/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%20 Learning/81/226/41 NING http: //avalon-project. ning. com/ Luisa Panichi, Local Project Leader, University of Pisa, Italy panichi@cli. unipi. it; moripan@tin. it Zeynep Onat-Stelma, Avalon Teacher Training Course, University of Manchester, UK Zeynep. Onat-stelma@manchester. ac. uk