Publication based on a students' dissertation project

We are very proud to announce the publication of the article "Design of a Gamified Twitter Environment: Investigation of how Students' Personality and Attitude in Language Learning Affect their Participation" at the Digital Innovations and Research in Language Learning (edited by S. Mavridi and V. Saumell). The study is based on the dissertation project that one of our students, Bryan Kilvinski, designed and developed under the supervision of our tutors Angelos Konstantinidis and Ivan Lombardi.

Just released: Professional Competencies in Language Learning and Teaching

The book entitled "Professional Competencies in Language Learning and Teaching", edited by Cecilia Goria, Lea Guetta, Neil Hughes, Sandra Reisenleutner, and Oranna Speicher is now released and it is freely available online: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.34.9782490057399

This volume examines many of the complex issues regarding the language skills and professional competencies acquired by students studying Modern Foreign Languages at universities in the United Kingdom and across Europe. It also outlines the innovative pedagogical strategies, methods, and resources employed by language academics to help graduates transition from university into the world of work through their MFL studies.

Just published: Personal learning environments and personal learning networks for language teachers’ professional development

We are proud to see our tutors and students in the Master of Arts in Digital Technologies collaborating and publishing a book chapter on Personal Learning Environments and their potential for supporting our students’ learning and for creating professional development opportunities for our students.

Link to the chapter: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2019.28.872

Dr Cecilia Goria talks about her poster in the Finding The Student Voice in Assessment Conference

Just published: Using SmallWorlds to Enhance Social Presence, Group Cohesion, and Group Identity in an Online Postgraduate Course

The Handbook of Research on Collaborative Teaching Practice in Virtual Learning Environments has been just published. The book focuses on program developments in the realm of digital worlds in educational settings and features pedagogical methods relating to cooperative learning, hands-on curriculum, and meta-cognitive dimensions. Among the highlights of the book is a discussion on the use of a Virtual World for strengthening social presence, group cohesion, and group identity in the distance learning postgraduate programme Digital Technologies for Language Teaching in Chapter 5 authored by Angelos Konstantinidis.

Just released: Cultivating a community of learners in a distance learning postgraduate course for language professionals

Just released 'CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016', edited by Salomi Papadima-Sophocleous, Linda Bradley, & Sylvie Thouësny.

The volume features a paper by Angelos Konstantinidis and Cecilia Goria, titled: 'Cultivating a community of learners in a distance learning postgraduate course for language professionals'. The paper offers reflections and practices in cultivating a community of learners in the context of the Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching programme.
The paper (as well as the whole volume) is open access and can be downloaded from the following link: https://research-publishing.net/display_article.php?doi=10.14705/rpnet.2016.eurocall2016.567

Presentation: Cultivating a community of learners

Angelos Konstantinidis & Cecilia Goria presented a paper at the EuroCALL 2016 conference. The paper is titled "Cultivating a community of learners in a distance learning postgraduate course for language professionals" and it discusses the theoretical background, the rationale, and the strategies employed in the Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching programme to create and sustain an online community of learners.

Conference presentation about the MA in DTLT programme

#Eurocall2016 conference programme is online! Angelos Konstantinidis & Cecilia Goria present a paper related to the ways of cultivating a community of learners in the Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching course.
More info and the programme: http://eurocall2016.org/programme/

Conference Volume: "Innovative language teaching & learning at university"

The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham hosted the fifth annual conference in the "Innovative Language Teaching at University" #‎InnoConf15‬ series. Under the heading "Enhancing participation and collaboration" the conference, organised by Cecilia Goria, Oranna Speicher and Sascha Stollhans, took place on 19 June 2015, and was attended by over 120 linguists, language teachers and language acquisition researchers from all over the world.

The edited volume of the conference contributions (freely available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.9781908416322) contains 15 selected peer-reviewed case studies, research studies and reflective pieces which are concerned with a number of languages and most chapters deal with the innovative use of technology in language teaching and/or online collaborations. The volume also contains an invited contribution by Dr. Jan Hardman and a foreword by Professor Zoltán Dörnyei.

What types of learning may occur through casual use of Facebook?

What types of learning may occur through casual use of Facebook? This study, conducted by one of our guest tutors in the MA in DTLT programme, Angelos Konstantinidis, attempts to shed some light on this perplexing question.
Read the full article here: http://www.ojcmt.net/articles/42/4210.pdf