
EFL Learners' Task Perceptions and Agency in Blended Learning
An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study on the 'U.S. Embassy School Election Project'
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EFL Learners' Task Perceptions and Agency in Blended Learning
An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study on the 'U.S. Embassy School Election Project'
About this book
How does foreign language learners' agency emerge at the micro-level of classroom activity during the enactment of digitally-enhanced tasks, and how do these learners exercise their agency digitally within and beyond the classroom? Drawing on research in task-based and computer-assisted language learning, this mixed-methods study uncovers key dimensions of "learner agency" - a newcomer to the field of language teaching methodology and applied linguistics. The analysis centers on three case studies of teenage students' perceptions and handling of digitally-enhanced language learning tasks. These are complemented with a Germany-wide questionnaire survey among participants in the U.S. Embassy School Election Project - an intercultural, blended language learning project that has drawn over 15, 000 participants since 2012.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Titel
- Impressum
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Task-based language learning and teaching
- 3 Tasks and task perception in CALL
- 4 Research methodological framework
- 5 Research context: The U.S. Embassy School Election Project
- 6 Macro-perspective: quantitative participant surveys
- 7 Micro-perspective: Critical case analysis
- 8 Case 1: âFind titles for the cartoonsâ
- 9 Case 2: âThe candidates and their spousesâ
- 10 Case 3: âThe electoral systemâ
- 11 Synthesis and implications
- 12 References
- Abbreviations
- Appendices
- List of data excerpts
- FuĂnoten