Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic is a reality affecting human activity worldwide, including language education. This paper addresses practices and possibilities for L2 learning and use occurring informally, particularly those taking place in bottom-up, community-driven digital actions of citizens in the fig...
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Université Marc Bloch
2020-12-01
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| description | The coronavirus pandemic is a reality affecting human activity worldwide, including language education. This paper addresses practices and possibilities for L2 learning and use occurring informally, particularly those taking place in bottom-up, community-driven digital actions of citizens in the fight against the pandemic. Since January 2020, many technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) forms (Preece & Shneiderman, 2009) were launched locally and globally, where citizens contribute voluntarily to actions that serve a social purpose in crises. Four TMSP types are analysed through the examples of cases drawn from the pandemic: a) massively multiplayer online games, b) emergency response expert hackathons, c) digital activism in grassroots communities and d) citizen science. The paper builds on sociocultural understandings of the language learner as a social actor and an active citizen meaningfully engaged in collective action during the pandemic to identify current practices and future possibilities at the crossroads of language learning and agency for a social purpose in crises. Despite the scarcity of practices so far, the paper offers a tentative mapping of the TMSP features that depict their potential for L2 learning and use and open up research perspectives in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-974b4f2b79e840959dbd24230174c42e2024-12-09T13:25:16ZfraUniversité Marc BlochALSIC: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication1286-49862020-12-0123110.4000/alsic.4880Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemicKaterina ZourouThe coronavirus pandemic is a reality affecting human activity worldwide, including language education. This paper addresses practices and possibilities for L2 learning and use occurring informally, particularly those taking place in bottom-up, community-driven digital actions of citizens in the fight against the pandemic. Since January 2020, many technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) forms (Preece & Shneiderman, 2009) were launched locally and globally, where citizens contribute voluntarily to actions that serve a social purpose in crises. Four TMSP types are analysed through the examples of cases drawn from the pandemic: a) massively multiplayer online games, b) emergency response expert hackathons, c) digital activism in grassroots communities and d) citizen science. The paper builds on sociocultural understandings of the language learner as a social actor and an active citizen meaningfully engaged in collective action during the pandemic to identify current practices and future possibilities at the crossroads of language learning and agency for a social purpose in crises. Despite the scarcity of practices so far, the paper offers a tentative mapping of the TMSP features that depict their potential for L2 learning and use and open up research perspectives in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).https://journals.openedition.org/alsic/4880social dimensiononline learningsocial mediainformal learningopenness |
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| title | Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic |
| title_full | Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic |
| title_short | Language learning as the agency for a social purpose: examples from the coronavirus pandemic |
| title_sort | language learning as the agency for a social purpose examples from the coronavirus pandemic |
| topic | social dimension online learning social media informal learning openness |
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