CONSTRUCTING VISUALLY-BASED DIGITAL CONVERSATIONS IN EFL WITH VOICETHREAD

• Authors: David Kent
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

VoiceThread holds potential to provide students who rarely speak in class a means to create visually-based digital conversations. In light of this, pedagogical affordances of the tool are considered, along with efficacy behind VoiceThread development within English as a Foreign Language contexts. Instructional strategies, supported by examples, are presented. A means for in-service teachers to evaluate language production and learning outcomes emerge, along with techniques essential for monitoring, producing, and guiding effective VoiceThread development through inclusion of specifically developed resources.

Keywords

EN

VoiceThread; digital conversations; visualization

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-16

Contributors

author

David Kent

• Graduate School of TESOL-MALL, Woosong University

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