1. Oral production and
interaction in a foreign
language through
online ICT tools
SPEAKAPPS PARTNERS
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
University of Groningen
University of Jyväskylä
Dublin City University
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for
any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Website: www.speakapps.eu
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Twitter: @speakapps
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Office of Learning Technologies
Av. Tibidabo, 43. 08003 Barcelona. Spain
Tel.: + 34 93 253 23 00
Fax: + 34 93 417 64 95
Email: speakapps@uoc.edu
Do not hesitate, join the SpeakApps community!
SpeakApps is
A collaboratively-based repository of supporting
activities and methodologies to be carried out in
your classroom.
An online platform to access the tools and
organize your virtual classrooms at your wish.
A series of free online tools to enhance oral skills
among your students. Useful both in face-to-face
courses or online courses.
A multilingual European project involving 6
languages (English, Catalan, Dutch, Irish, Polish
and Swedish) and 5 countries (Spain, Netherlands,
Ireland, Poland and Finland).
Enter our Moodle platform by creating a free account
and try out our tools and methodologies. Tell us what
you think.
The SpeakApps tools are Open Source. Download and
install. Help us develop further.
Visit our Open Educational Resources repository.
Browse, download, upload and comment on existing
activities. You can copy and adapt them to your needs
using the OER editor.
Join our community and share your ideas and
experiences on language learning, specially related to
oral skills, with other teachers.
Help us adapt SpeakApps to other languages or even
other learning contexts.
There are several ways to start collaborating with us:
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Users
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Presentations at national and
international events
20 Slides and other documentation available through SlideShare
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New participating
institutions within
the project
32
Teacher training sessions &
Online teacher training programme
visits to the website, with more
than 7.000 unique visitors and
nearly 27.000 page views
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Videos on YouTube,
with more than
3.000 views
Open educational resources (OER)
+ Projects, activities and tasks available for all 6 SpeakApps languages.
+ Multiple search criteria possibilities: by type, language, tool, CEF level, etc.
+ Useful contents for face-to-face, blended and distance learning, whether
using SpeakApps tools or not.
+ Built within a wiki environment, easily allowing contributions, collabora-
tions and feedback.
Working environment:
+ The online environment to access project tools and resources.
+ Available in up to 6 languages.
SpeakApps Moodle platform:
Community
+ Twitter: stay up to date and comment about SpeakApps in140 characters.
+ Create a group in the SpeakApps platform and share ideas and experiences.
+ Technical Support Blogs for every tool and for the platform.
A system to allow your students to
conduct videochat sessions, record them
and archive them in very few clicks.
An application for administering materials to
students engaged in information gap activities in
real time, either inside or outside the classroom
A blog with audio and videofunctionalities
for practicing oral production and easily
assess your students.
+ These tools are available in all 6 SpeakApps
languages and open to be adapted to many others.
+ There are also InfoBlogs available, with
user-guides and pedagogical guides.
Tools
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Organised as an open source software community: all materials, activities
and tools are available for download, online use and further development.
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