Distance language teaching and learning

What does LCTLs stand for?

• A. Leading Change in Teaching and Learning

• B. Less Commonly Taught Languages

• C. Longitudinal Conversion Transfer Languages

• D. Literacy Computer Taught Languages

Which of these are reported by students about their experiences

after Hybrid course?

• Learning goal achievement and self-directed learning

• Anxiety and embarrassment

• Difficult tasks and assignments

• Lack of interaction with peers

What is the difficulty that students reported from online learning?

• Anxiety and embarrassment

• Not well-organized webpage

• Demotivation from the difficult tasks

• Lack of interaction with peers

What are the three pedagogical concerns?

• Language skill development, task design and real-time interaction development

• Real-time interaction development, teacher expertise and task design

• Assesment of learning, teacher expertise and language skill development

• Task design, assessment of learning and teacher expertise

A key challenge in online distance synchrounous setting

highlighted by Gruba (2004) and Hampel (2009) was

• students' unfamilarity with online tools

• technical problems

• teacher's poor understanding of task design in distance language classrom

• teacher's tendency to migrate teacher-centered approach to online environment

What is the real challenge of distance languages learning?

• Student’s learning behavior

• Technology

• How instructors implement instructions

• The complexity of languages

Distance language teaching is portrayed as a:

• Site of motivation

• Site of struggle

• Site of technology

• Site of innovation