New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice:
The Second Conference on Telecollaboration in University Education
21-23 April 2016
Keynote talk by Professor David Little, Trinity College Dublin
"Learner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning"
The most successful language learning programmes are those in which, from the beginning, learners' agency is channelled through the target language; those in which, individually and collaboratively, learners use the target language to plan, execute, monitor and evaluate their own learning. The first part of my talk will elaborate on this claim, describing some of the pedagogical procedures that can be used to create and sustain an autonomous learning environment, and offering supportive evidence from classroom practice. The second part will explore some of the challenges that this approach poses for the organization of telecollaborative language learning. And the conclusion will briefly consider the implications of my argument for second language acquisition research.
The Academic Committee gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the conference sponsors:
- Fáilte Ireland / MeetInIreland.com
- Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
- Trinity College Dublin Association and Trust
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
