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Designing e-Learning Activities with a Wiki for Students of English as a Foreign Language

Effectiveness of offline and online lessons depends not only on the educational content and the presentation technology, but also on the pedagogy underpinning students learning activities. The term “learning strategies” (see Janac et al., 1997) denotes various types of small-scale pedagogical designs and teacher interventions aimed at achieving specific types of outcomes related to the learning process. Various types of learning technology can be used for their implementation: audio recordings, video, audioconferencing, e-mail, chatroom, web forum, web site, online testing, wiki, weblog etc. The development of internet-based communication media and e-learning tools, the interest in application of such activities for engaging online students in collaborative and peer-to-peer learning has been instigated. A new term, “e-tivitiy”, was coined by Salmon (2002) to denote educational activities designed by e-moderators which include individual contributions and responding to the contributions of other learners in various computer-mediated communication environments. Recently, several collections of all-purpose e-learning activities or pedagogical strategies have been published by various authors (e.g. Iverson, 2005 ; Watkins, 2005). Also, specific online activities were designed for teaching English as a second language (Marco, 2002).

e-learning activities; e-tivities; wiki; EFL; ESP

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