Research-Informed Online Language Course Design and Development for Least Commonly Taught LTCLs: The case of Introductory Dari, Pashto, and Uyghur
Online language teaching is continuing to grow in importance both in the academic world and the public sector as language learners desire to increase their language skills within the framework of an increasingly digital landscape both in academia and the corporate world. While the current landscap...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncolctl.org/files/Research-Informed-Online-Language-Course-Design.pdf |
| Summary: | Online language teaching is continuing to grow in importance both in the academic world and the public sector as language learners desire to increase their language skills within the framework of an
increasingly digital landscape both in academia and the corporate
world. While the current landscape of the online language learning
community is still highly saturated with more commonly taught
languages like Spanish, French, Chinese, etc., members of the less commonly taught languages (LCTL) community are looking to take advantage of the same benefits of providing online courses, such as increasing marketability to a larger learner audience, supporting selfpaced learning, increasing learner autonomy, and increasing individual interactivity, as well as additional LCTL-specific benefits,such as helping sustain LCTLS with low enrollment. In this paper, we seek to describe one program’s experience designing and developing three introductory online courses in Dari, Pashto, and Uyghur, detailing our process from research and inception to the prototype development phase. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-9031 1930-9031 |