Foreign language learning environment built on web 2.0 technologies

Flexible and Affordable Foreign Language Learning Environment based on Web 2.0 Technologies

“…Liferay makes use of an advanced roles and rights concept (see also [6]). The portal is accessible by users, which can be clustered into user groups and can be assigned with different roles in different contexts, namely in organizations and communities.…”

“…The Foreign Language Learning Environment is built on top of the Liferay Core and makes use of Liferay specific functionality but also make extensive use of cloud services and content in the cloud. To this end, some of the plug-in mechanism of the system are used, namely the layout templates, hook plug-ins as well as a range of portlets including specific portlets to enable the integration of widgets and gadgets as well as the integration of content and services using the i-frame technology (see also Boruta et al in [6]). As a concrete sample scenario, the support of learning English as foreign language has been targeted, as this scenario is widely used and also a great number of tools, services and content are available.…”

“…This requirements have been discussed elsewhere, such as in Gütl and Chang [19] and Chang and Gütl [10]. The application domain requirements are following the design guidelines for computerbased second language learning by Hemard in 1997 [25], who has proposed the following seven design criteria: "(1) making key linguistic characteristics salient, (2) offering modifications of linguistic input, (3) providing opportunities for 'comprehensible output,' (4) providing opportunities for learners to notice their errors, (5) providing opportunities for learners to correct their linguistic output, (6) supporting modified interaction between the learner and the computer, and (7) acting as a participant in L2 tasks" (Hemard, 1997 cited in [41]). …”

“…Additionally, the search and invite friends portlets have been adopted to be compatible with Liferay Community Edition 6.0. 6 As a second valuable source the Liferays' community plug-ins [36] has been identified, which is an online repository of files and add-ons to the core Liferay technology contributed by the Liferay community. For advanced communication and collaboration features, the following unchanged portlets developed by the community has been added: list portlet for managing group work, group notification portlet for sending e-mails to commu-PAPER FLEXIBLE AND AFFORDABLE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES nity members.…”

“…The focus is on research and development of a flexible and affordable environment for foreign language learning and training. This paper discusses our first research findings and reports on our first development results, which is an extended version of the ICL 2011 paper of Boruta, Gütl, Chang and Edwards in 2011 [6].…”