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DIGITAL TOOLS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN PORTUGAL: IMMEASURABLE OPPORTUNITIES AMIDST MULTIPLE CHALLENGES

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dc.contributor.authorDelplancq, Véronique
dc.contributor.authorCosta Lopes, Ana Maria
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Joana
dc.contributor.authorPereira, José
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Justine
dc.contributor.authorCasañ Pitarch, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorGillain, Romain
dc.contributor.authorAmante, Susana
dc.contributor.authorFidalgo, Susana
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-04T14:27:24Z
dc.date.available2024-12-04T14:27:24Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-04
dc.description.abstractPedagogical innovation in higher education (HE) is a delicate subject that has already been the object of many studies. Today, it is clear that students must play a very active role in their own learning, in a process that is both increasingly individualised and collaborative, in line with the ever-changing demands of the labour market and society as a whole. Pedagogical innovation can be based on various active methodologies which rest upon numerous tools, among which digital tools currently hold a prominent place. However, it is undeniable that the various studies have attempted to draw firm conclusions about the advantages and disadvantages of the different methodologies. What's more, there are so many digital tools readily available to users on the internet that it is often difficult to make a reasoned choice that will guarantee real benefits in terms of learning outcomes right from the beginning of the work with students. In fact, each student has their own particular needs and reactions. This means that teachers need to be highly flexible and able to quickly adapt the teaching sequences they had prepared. They also need to be familiar with a wide range of active methodologies and digital tools to support students' work and they must be constantly updated to keep pace with the demands of emerging technologies. The challenges are many, but they guarantee motivation for all those involved in the educational process. This article is intended as a contribution to the discussion on the implementation of active methodologies for foreign language (FL) learning in HE, supported by a wide range of up-to-date digital tools. The experiment presented, which is the result of projects developed at the School of Education (ESEV) of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (Portugal), took place during the second semester of the 23-24 academic year, as part of a FL curricular unit (CU) (English and French) of the 3-year degree course in Media Studies, with a group of 25 second-year students. The general aim of this CU is to deepen the communicative skills pertaining to the career paths of these students, by mobilising the professional skills of these forthcoming media professionals. Other skills, such as the cultural and intercultural skills inherent to FL, are also worked on. The preferred methodologies are project-based learning, mobile learning, flipped learning, gamification and peer assessment, within a collaborative and constructive environment. In addition to these obvious hard skills, soft skills such as creativity, flexibility, empathy, critical thinking, interpersonal skills are all part of the learning progress. The study shows the evolution of the didactic sequence developed at the beginning of the semester, justifies the decisions taken towards the achievement of positive didactic repercussions particularly with regard to the choice of the digital tools used (for the production and dissemination of documents drawn up by the students or for gamification), systematises the reasons for the adaptation throughout the semester and outlines the difficulties encountered, as well as the advantages of these teaching choices from the point of view of the student, the teacher and the assessment procedures. It concludes with prospects for future research, in particular by considering AI as an inevitable asset within teaching-learning contexts.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/8669
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherIATEDpt_PT
dc.subjectHigher educationpt_PT
dc.subjectForeign languagespt_PT
dc.subjectPedagogical innovationpt_PT
dc.subjectActive methodologiespt_PT
dc.subjectDigital toolspt_PT
dc.subjectHard and soft skillspt_PT
dc.titleDIGITAL TOOLS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN PORTUGAL: IMMEASURABLE OPPORTUNITIES AMIDST MULTIPLE CHALLENGESpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace11th–13th November 2024, Seville, Spainpt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage8171pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage8165pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleProceedings of ICERI2024 Conferencept_PT
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