Fostering autonomy in learners with special needs : a specialized e-learning course

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cercles-2021-2022" target="_blank" >10.1515/cercles-2021-2022</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fostering autonomy in learners with special needs : a specialized e-learning course

Original language description

International engagement has become a priority and is regarded as a means to improve the quality of students’ education and their future social and professional success. It may, however, pose a major challenge for some higher education students. One of the vulnerable groups is that of learners with special needs, and particularly Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing students. These learners are limited in their chances to interact in spoken/written foreign languages and in the learning opportunities they can join. This, by extension, has an unfavourable impact on their possibilities of engaging in study abroad. Based on the experience with a newly launched e-learning course “Online English for International Mobilities”, the present paper discusses the need for building effective FL learning strategies in Deaf, deaf and hard of hearing students in connection with the process of academic internationalisation. The main argument is for the need to foster students’ ability to self-regulate, reduce their teacher dependency and reliance on directed learning, and to encourage them to take responsibility for their own learning. Secondly, the paper provides a comparison of two pilot runs of the course from the perspective of (online) classroom dynamics and cooperation. While the course is built to be as autonomous as possible and benefits from the advantages of the e-learning format, great importance is given to group dynamics and cooperation via discussion forums and online chats. It also takes advantage of the considerable benefits of individualized, personalized feedback being provided by teachers on selected assignments.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Language Learning in Higher Education; Journal of the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS)

ISSN

2191-611X

e-ISSN

2191-6128

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

471-487

UT code for WoS article

000717960700012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85120546741