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Teaching languages for specific purposes in a dynamic digital era: The power of the virtual

K. Jauregi

XV AELFE International ConferenceUniversidad de Alcal, 23-24 June 2016

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Professions in a changing societyChallenges for EducationThe power of the virtual in educationExamples of the virtual empowerment in educationScheme

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InnovationExperimentationCreativityDynamic society

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orianagarciafonseca.blogspot.comGlobalisation

Technological (r)evolutionwww.glogster.com

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The Future of the Professions Predict the decline of today's professions and describe the people and systems that will replace them.Increasingly capable systems (telepresence > artificial intelligence) will bring fundamental change in the way the practical expertise of specialists is made available in society. We will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, consultants, lawyers and many others to work as they did in the 20th century (OUP 2015)

Richard Susskind, OBE; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London; Visiting Professor in Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute; Emeritus Law Professor, Gresham College; IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England; President of the Society for Computers and Law, andDaniel Susskind, Lecturer in Economics at Balliol College, University of Oxford4

Google driverless car

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Big data

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Robotics: El Dulze

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Effect on jobsOver five million jobs will be lost by 2020 as a result of developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics and other technological change.(World Economic Forum Research, 2015)

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BAE Systems:Eleven million jobs across the UK economy are at high risk of being automated by 2036, with the retail and transport sectors most vulnerable.

Robots used in Healthcare

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Robots > TourismMachines fitted with the latest artificial intelligence technology could soon be greeting guests at receptions, cleaning rooms and serving food.

www.horecatrends.com

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World Economic Forum ResearchToday, we are at the beginning of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. Developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing and biotechnology, to name just a few, are all building on and amplifying one another. This will lay the foundation for a revolution more comprehensive and all-encompassing than anything we have ever seen. (Shwab & Samans, 2016)

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Extra jobsSome professions will disappear while new ones will be created Extra jobs have been created in health and social care since 2000, the majority of which have a low chance of automation. Education and information and communication sectors are the most sheltered from future automation.

(Angus Knowles-Cutler, vice-chairman of Deloitte)

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World Economic Forum Research

"To prevent a worst-case scenario - technological change accompanied by talent shortages, mass unemployment and growing inequality - reskilling and upskilling of todays workers will be critical"

Life long Education

Need for innovation and a continuous reskilling and upskilling13

Need for new competencies & skills in a rapidly changing, increasingly technological and global society

14Intercultural Competence

21st century skills; soft skills

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Interdisciplinarity

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Across the globe, intercultural contact has become a reality as result of business, travel, migration international education. At the same time advances in technology (internet, social networking sites) are making easier to link people virtually in different parts of the world. As people are becoming increasingly interconnected, the demand of individuals who can communicate appropriately and effectively with people with a different linguistic and cultural background has become even more pressing.Businesses and professions seek employees to be fluent in more than one language to participate in the international marketplace as well as to serve growing ethnolinguistic minorities living within each community. Employers increasingly want their employees to be interculturally competent. They want them to be skillful negotiators in increasingly intercultural work situations.

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Education: Need for innovation Educational institutions at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, are largely the products of technology infrastructure and social circumstances of the past. The landscape has changed and educational institutions should consider how to adapt quickly in response. (Skills, 2020)

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Fulfils a contradictory role (Kelly, 2014):

Pass on the core knowledge, skills & values of preceding generations.

But more importantly, it must provide with knowledge, skills & values required to confront the challenges of the future.Education

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Some directions of change might include:

Placing additional emphasis on developing skills such as critical thinking, insight, and analysis capabilities Integrating new-media literacy into education programs Including experiential learning that gives prominence to soft skillssuch as the ability to collaborate, work in groups, read social cues, and respond adaptively Broadening the learning constituency: lifelong learning Integrating interdisciplinary training that allows students to develop skills and knowledge in a range of subjects (Skills, 2020)

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One of the challenges of educators is to keep abreast of the technological avenues that are constantly opening up (OER, MOOCS, social networking, new devices & tools) and consider how to integrate formal and informal learning meaningfully in education.

Education in a global digital era

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Since 2000 the pace of social change has quickened. Teachers are confronted with new challenges they have not been prepared for: most "classrooms are multicultural and teachers must be interculturally skilled mediators who enable learning to occur for everyone." (Kelly, 2014)

These developments emphasize the need for continuous professional development.Education in a global digital era

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English has not become a monolithic code, but has become a pluricentric language: many varieties have developed as a result of contact

Principal medium for international and intranational communication > Rise & expanding influence of English as Lingua Franca

Development of multiple World Englisheswith different cultural conceptualizations

Decentring of the native speaker (Byram, 2008)

English in a global digitalised world

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This has significant implications for the notion of "proficiency" in English as a language of international and intercultural communication:

"To be really proficient in English today one has to be multidialectal. This does not mean that one needs production skills in all the varieties of English. One needs the capacity to negotiate diverse varieties to facilitate communication. (Sharifian, 2014)English in a global digitalised world

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ELTcurricula today need to expose learners to morethan just the traditional varieties & diverse systems of cultural conceptualizations

Speakers of English require skills thatfacilitate communication between people coming from different cultural backgrounds, while developing the right attitudes towards otherness (ICC, Byram).English in a global digitalised world

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In order to meet all these societal challenges, important to promote in education:

experiential language & culture learning (Kolb, 1989)reflective intercultural learning, the development of digital literacies (the virtual!)along with the development of soft skillsFrom theory to praxis in education

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Meaningful education of the 21st century through experiential learning and reflection

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25Virtual empowerment for enriching education in the 21st century

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26The learning community is not the university but the world

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www.brightonsu.comInternational Blended Learning

Moocs, formal and informal learning26

International Projects

GamificationEindhoven 2030

28Internet-based intercultural exchange between groups of learners of different cultural / national backgrounds set up in an institutional blended-learning context with the aim of developing both content & language skills and intercultural communicative competence (Guth & Helm, 2012: 42)Experiential learning through Telecollaboration

Synchronous and asynchronous telecollaboration28

Master Foreign Language Education

Objective: to gain knowledge & experience on pedagogical, digital and intercultural innovation & carry out action research on the use of telecollaboration (TC)Participants: 50 Dutch master students (10 weeks)3 phases:Reading (capita selecta: TC, tasks, IC, tools)Experience (Creating 3 TC tasks for Czech students learning Dutch & carrying out those sessions -VC-) Research over the impact of TC tasksFocus on oral interactionExperiential & reflective learning (1)

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Example Casus 1

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Master Intercultural Communication (in preparation)

Objectives: be aware of diversity and develop IC & digital literacy skills to get the most of collaboration in virtual diversity.Utrecht University, University of Urbino, University of Tallinn.Students will collaborate weekly (5 weeks) & carry out a research study on the attitudes towards refugees in the 3 participating countries. Students in groups of 3:first share personal information, Experiential & reflective learning (2)

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they will have to agree on the focus of their researchanalyse how media handles the refugee issue in each country and share the information with the teameach student will interview subjects in their country share the information with the groupthey will write in collaboration a research reportthey will create in group a video clip about the experienceThey will reflect weekly on: the task, the collaboration, intercultural rich points, the toolsTools: Moodle & BBB, Google Drive and Hangout, WhatsApp, FacebookExperiential & reflective learning (2)

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Spanish Course (B2)

Dutch students of Spanish carry out weekly TC tasks with student teachers from Spanish universities (& Chile) TBLT approach > final tasks developed according to course objectives Focus on intercultural oral communication5 sessions (outside the classroom)Integration (20% of the course credits)Tools: videocommunication (Adobe Connect / Google Hangout on air) and Second Life

Experiential & reflective learning (3)

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Example Casus 3

Videocommunication

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Interesting about Virtual Worlds: Many different scenarios

Realistic35

Realistisch35

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Realistisch + omgevingsgeluid (hier: Deens dorp)

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Net als 2D ELOs: tijd en plaats onafhankelijk 37

38But you can have a meeting on a virtual beach

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Subject & theme related sims 39

Classic ancient life39

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42Interesting about VWs (2) Communication

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Interesting about VWs (3)Action & co-presence

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Navigation control:sit, walk, run, dance even fly45You can make machinimas

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Create objects 46

Feedback van Objecten ontvangen bij aanraking (geluid)46

47Interact with objects

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You can upload pictures, PPTs, videos48

49You can participate in a simulation

Je kunt in virtuele werelden simulaties van van alles zien: hoe een hart werkt, bevruchting van een eicel, verstopping van een ader, maar ook hoe bepaalde medische apparatuur werkt.

Practice professional skills

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Voorbeeld van een practicum

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Virtual labs for Physics53

Physics engine: Virtual labs; hier voor onderzoek aan zwaartekracht en materialen eigenschappen doen53

Socialise / Informal learning54

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OnlineConferences55OpenSim Conference

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The EUROVERSITY network is funded under the grant agreement number 518944-LLP-1-2011-1-UK-KA3-KA3NW with the Education,Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Union.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Example Casus 3: Second Life

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Impact on:MotivationCommunicative skillsIntercultural awarenessSoft skills

Results

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Challenges:MindsetTechnique & IT supportReliable Partner

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Across-border virtual learning Start months before Begin small & be realisticReliable partnerIntercultural & digital competenciesOrganisation en coordination taskPedagogy is crucialCoach studentsCheck hardware en internet connectionsNew mindset!

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Thank you for your attentionK. jauregi@uu.nl

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