Using Dynamic Environments in Foreign Language Teaching

Year 2016, Special Issue 2016-I, 72 - 76, 01.01.2016

Yasin Arslan

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.16.spi.1.9

Abstract

With
the advent of virtual environments, challenges and opportunities for innovative
teaching and enhancement of student learning can be conducted more efficiently.
What is important to this process is the use of strategies to foster transfer
of knowledge generation dispositions from teacher to learner. The concept of
leveraging strategic control of the knowledge from teachers to students in
virtual learning environments functions as the basis for determining how to
make students apply knowledge subsequent to the acquisition of knowledge. Learners
of this century are born into digital world. They connect, share and learn by
means of latest advances in technology. One of these innovations is social
media which embrace web-based and mobile-based technologies to facilitate
interactive communication between individuals, institutions, and communities. The
Virtual Classroom enables an online learning environment to utilize a learning
management system by which the teacher provides course content using a variety
of resources and tools. Therefore it provides effective means of teaching
students who are dispersed across different locations. Instructional strategies
for fostering student engagement in foreign language classrooms are regarded as
critical and a variety of theories focus on student learning, needs and adult
concerns that provide a basis for transfer of knowledge from teacher to
learner. In this study, a recent model which is composed of the dimensions of
knowledge, teaching approach and knowledge authority is presented to design
virtual learning environments in foreign language teaching. The study was
carried out in Selcuk University, School of Foreign Languages in Konya. The
results of the study show that dynamic virtual environments are quite
significant in foreign language education.

Keywords

Virtual environments, Knowledge transfer, Foreign language learning

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