Cultivating Listening Skills for Academic English Based on Strategy Object Mashups Approach

Abstract

SUMMARYThis paper aims to support the cultivation of proper cognitive skills for academic English listening. First of all, this paper identified several listening strategies proved to be effective for cultivating listening skills through past research and builds up the respective strategy models, based on which we designed and developed various functional units as strategy objects, and the mashup environment where these function units can be assembled to serve as a personal learning environment. We also attached listening strategies and tactics to each object, in order to make learners aware of the related strategies and tactics applied during learning. Both short-term and mid-term case studies were carried out, and the data collected showed several positive results and some interesting indications.

Hacia una visión aglutinadora del concepto de PLE

“…Las diversas herramientas y recursos que ofrecen los PLE permiten construir conocimiento colaborativo, ya que se puede compartir notas, editar y elaborar recursos, pero sobre todo evaluar lo que se está aprendiendo y la manera de hacerlo (Li, Kira, & Hasegawa, 2016). En la literatura revisada, se reconoce la colaboración como una de las características de los PLE donde el resultado final es la capacidad de comunicarse con otros y crear aprendizaje colaborativo para construir conocimiento (Şahin & Uluyol, 2016).…”