Journal of Korean language education (한국어교육)
- Volume 25 Issue 1
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- Pages.203-234
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- 2014
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- 1225-6137(pISSN)
A Case Study of Utilizing Twitter and Moodle for Teaching of Communication Strategies
의사소통 전략 교수를 위한 트위터와 무들 활용 사례 연구
- Cho, In Jung (Monash University)
- 조인정 (모내시 대학교)
- Received : 2013.12.15
- Accepted : 2014.02.12
- Published : 2014.03.01
Abstract
This paper demonstrates how to incorporate the teaching of communication strategies into a large class of English-speaking learners of the Korean language. The method proposed here was developed to overcome the difficulty of conducting language activities involving communicative interactions amongst students and also between teacher and students in a large classroom. As a way of compensating the minimal opportunities for interactions in the classroom, students are given the task of expressing in Korean the English translations of authentic Korean comics via Twitter, which was later replaced with the feedback feature on Moodle, and then their Korean expressions are collected and projected onto a big screen. These collected expressions by students naturally differ from one another, helping students to realize that it is possible for them to express the same message or meaning in many different ways. The results of two separately conducted questionnaires show that this method is an effective way of providing students with significantly increased chances of producing 'comprehensible output' that requires them to think of how to communicate with their limited knowledge of the Korean language. Many students also commented that the teachers' feedback on errors provides them with the opportunity to learn about common errors as well as their own errors.
Keywords
- communication strategies;
- comprehensible output;
- technology- enhanced language learning;
- Twitter;
- learning management program 'MOODLE';
- large classes;
- error feedback;
- comics;
- translation
- 의사소통 전략;
- 이해가능한 출력;
- 테크놀로지 활용 언어학습;
- 트위터;
- 학습 관리 프로그램 '무들';
- 대규모 학급;
- 오류 피드백;
- 만화;
- 번역;