Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development
Our pilot project created blended/online courses to accommodate the growing needs of precollegiate and collegiate students interested in learning Korean and Japanese. In the initial phase, we conducted a survey of students’ experiences with and perceptions about blended/online Asian language learnin...
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| author | Sato, E. Sohn, H. Chen, Julian Adebowale, K. Jourdain, S. |
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| description | Our pilot project created blended/online courses to accommodate the growing needs of precollegiate and collegiate students interested in learning Korean and Japanese. In the initial phase, we conducted a survey of students’ experiences with and perceptions about blended/online Asian language learning. We found a general lack of familiarity with, and moderate resistance toward, online language learning modes. With learner attitudes in mind, we developed online modules for beginning Korean and Japanese courses. In this article, we report the survey results and the process of developing these innovative blended and online modalities of content delivery, focusing on the strengths of the modules and the unforeseen development challenges. The impacts that these technology-enhanced environments may have on student perceptions of transactional distance and tele-/copresence are explored. We suggest that transforming conventional East Asian language courses into blended/online modes is not only feasible but also beneficial for foreign language teaching and learning. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-277652017-09-13T15:11:17Z Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development Sato, E. Sohn, H. Chen, Julian Adebowale, K. Jourdain, S. Our pilot project created blended/online courses to accommodate the growing needs of precollegiate and collegiate students interested in learning Korean and Japanese. In the initial phase, we conducted a survey of students’ experiences with and perceptions about blended/online Asian language learning. We found a general lack of familiarity with, and moderate resistance toward, online language learning modes. With learner attitudes in mind, we developed online modules for beginning Korean and Japanese courses. In this article, we report the survey results and the process of developing these innovative blended and online modalities of content delivery, focusing on the strengths of the modules and the unforeseen development challenges. The impacts that these technology-enhanced environments may have on student perceptions of transactional distance and tele-/copresence are explored. We suggest that transforming conventional East Asian language courses into blended/online modes is not only feasible but also beneficial for foreign language teaching and learning. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27765 10.1177/0047239515617411 Sage fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Sato, E. Sohn, H. Chen, Julian Adebowale, K. Jourdain, S. Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title | Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title_full | Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title_fullStr | Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title_short | Building Innovative Online Korean and Japanese Courses: A Pilot on Technology- Enhanced Curriculum Development |
| title_sort | building innovative online korean and japanese courses: a pilot on technology- enhanced curriculum development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27765 |