Constructing Personal Learning Environments through ICT-mediated Foreing Language Instruction

Constructing Personal Learning Environments through ICT-mediated Foreing Language Instruction

1. Characteristics of modern global education and ICT

   • Characteristics of modern students
     • Preference for group activities, inclination to explore, discover, experiment and critical thinking, students focused on learning, interdisciplinarity and work-based projects, students learn connected to reality, recognition of multiple intelligences and different learning style.
   • Student autonomy and technology
     • Choose the format of the learning material ( audiovisual media, text, etc.), building self-directed learning pathways, integration of formal and informal learning experiences
   • Technological tools and applications
     • Linguistic tools and fields related to these, resource cooperation, free online platforms and foreign language courses
   • Influence of technology on foreign language learning
     • Strengthening formal and informal learning environments, availability of authentic materials on the language card, benefits of technology outside the classroom in the destination country
   • Implications of classroom activities
     • Replace or strengthen classroom activities with online learning experiences, varying degrees of interaction or independent study and learning, remodeling higher education through content delivery.

2. Introduction

   • Skills and human capital
     • Main pillar of progress and economic well-being of a country
   • Technological advances
     • The teaching of foreign languages ​​in non-linguistic higher education institutions is not an exception and requires substantial changes in the teaching and learning paradigm under a "strong digital technological influence."
   • Quality education
     • Technological education that meets modern global trends regarding the extensive use of digital media.

3. PLEs ( personal learning environment) in Foreing Language Education

   • Teacher support in PLE desing
     • General overview of the effective use of ICT. Incorporation of Web 2.0 tools and services.
   • Student autonomy
     • Personal learning suggests greater autonomy and responsibility for students with their active participation, since in the learning process decisions must be made about how to search, where to search, and the content necessary to meet the learning objectives.
   • Learning strategies
     • Structured links to appropriate resources. Context for using language. Personalization to the needs and abilities of the students.
   • ICT Tools
     • Institutional Platforms: Moodle, digital repositories Collaboration Tools: videoconferencing, instant messaging Open Educational Resources: Online dictionaries, podcasts.

4. PLE and ICT in Foreing Language Learning

   • Benefits of PLEs
     • The main benefit that PLE gives me to learn a language is the freedom it provides to access information and select what you want to learn. In addition to the individual strategies that are generated by the need to learn on one's own.
   • Student autonomy
     • As already mentioned, the autonomy provided by the PLE is essential to strengthen the development of the informal and formal courses that are being carried out, in this case the learning of a foreign language, developing writing, reading, speaking and listening skills, which are the basis of any language.
   • Use of technology in education (ICT)
     • The use of technology to learn a language results in a solid tool to consolidate concepts and rules of the language, for this you can use: videos, podcasts, movies, music, shows, online classes, digital books, audiobooks , etc.
   • Creating Personal Learning Environments
     • A PLE can be created by researching information from events, books, quotes. Also include tools such as apps, devices, supplies. But strengthened from a personal learning network, which includes the support of an instructor and a partner.
   • Diversity in Learning
     • The diversity of learning allows not only to learn a language, but also to apply the learning to other areas of knowledge, such as programming and natural sciences.

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