LANGUAGEQUESTS IN AN OFF-LINE COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Authors: Marta Navarro-Coy , Carlos Periñán-Pascual
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Internet has become an extremely powerful tool which has pervaded every corner of our lives, including the foreign language classroom. However, we should not forget that in certain situations this tool cannot be easily implemented in the FL classroom, because of either pedagogical or financial reasons. This paper presents CALL Workbench, a course management system which is flexible enough to be adapted to two stand-alone computer-based EFL learning settings: with or without access to the Internet but provided with electronic communication tools. A WebQuest has been designed and implemented through CALL Workbench in order to illustrate some of the advantages and disadvantages that both settings can present as compared to those found in a traditional Web-based environment.

Keywords

EN

LanguageQuest; Course management system; Computer-mediated communication

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2

Contributors

author

Marta Navarro-Coy

• Universidad Católica San Antonio, Murcia, Spain

author

Carlos Periñán-Pascual

• Universidad Católica San Antonio, Murcia, Spain

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