Task-based Language Learning in a Real-world Digital Environment: The European Digital Kitchen

Seedhouse, Paul (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1474264077 / ISBN 13: 9781474264075

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2017

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288 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Task-based Language Learning in a Real-world Digital Environment: The European Digital Kitchen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474264077
• ISBN 13: 9781474264075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

How can you use the latest digital technology to create an environment in which people can learn European languages while performing a meaningful real-world task and experiencing the cultural aspect of learning to cook European dishes? This book explains how to do this from A to Z, covering how a real-world digital environment for language learning was designed, built and researched.

The project makes language learning motivational and fun by tapping into people's interest in both cooking and technology – you can learn a language while cooking and interacting with a speaking digital kitchen. The kitchens provide spoken instructions in the foreign language on how to prepare European cuisine. Digital sensors are inserted in or attached to all the kitchen equipment and ingredients, so the digital kitchen detects what learners are doing and gives them feedback. Learners are also able to communicate with the kitchens and can ask for help via photos and videos if they don't understand any foreign language words.

Based on two research grants, the book provides five research studies showing the learning experiences of users in five European countries. The book explains the principles and procedures involved in the project, enabling others to design and implement a real-world digital learning environment in the same way. It includes numerous photographs of the system in use and evidence of how and what 250 users actually learnt.

About the Authors

Paul Seedhouse is Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics and Director of ilab:learn in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.

Michael Thomas is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Chair of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Mark Peterson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyoto University, Japan.

Mark Warschauer is a Professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, Director of UCI's Ph.D. in Education program, and founding director of UCI's Digital Learning Lab.