European Lifelong Learning Project SpeakApps - Speaking practice for language learning

1. SpeakApps 2:
Speaking practice in a foreign language
through ICT tools
Christine Appel, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University (Ireland)
Adriana Prizel-Kania, Jagellonian University (Poland)
Sake Jager, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)

2. Project Overview
SpeakApps 2 speakapps.eu
Lifelong Learning Programme
KA2 LANGUAGES, Accompanying Measures
Nov 2013 – Oct 2014
Partners Associated Partners
• Institut Obert de Catalunya
• University of Southern Denmark
• University of Nice
• University of Jÿvaskÿla
• Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
• Polskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne "Mikolaj Kopernik“
• Fundació Pere Closa

3. Project goals
Increasing practice time and facilitating quality feedback on:
Oral Production Speaking Interaction

4. Overview
• SpeakApps Concept
• New SpeakApps Languages
• Secondary Education
• Teacher Training
• SpeakApps Tools and Mobile Devices
• Open Educational Resources
• Building a community
• Telecollaboration
• How to use SpeakApps
• What’s next?

5. SpeakApps Concept

6. New Languages
• French
• Spanish
• German
• Italian
• Croatian
• More languages are always welcome!!
• Contact us at:
speakapps@uoc.edu

7. Secondary Education
 IOC
 Bell-Lloch , Girona

8. Teacher Training
• Series of teacher training course
• Online and blended delivery
• Local and global training
• Teacher training Handbook & CC materials
• http://moodle.speakapps.org/course/view.php?id=132
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkN4vv3AjsY#t=119

9. SpeakApps Tools and Mobile devices
• Langblog, Tandem and Moodle Classroom work inside browsers on mobile
devices
• Langblog being reviewed to establish which features should be accessible
via mobile and which are more suitable for other devices
• Recording on mobile phones
• Use of Tandem in F2F classrooms available and being piloted
• Browser-independent apps for different mobile devices are also in
development and should be available in the near future

10. Open Educational Resources

11. Open Educational Resources

12. Open Educational Resources
• Quality Assurance mechanisms being established
• Self-evaluation and peer evaluation
• User and Usability issues influencing rating and feedback mechanisms
• Mechanism taken from Social Networks stars or likes
• Number of downloads
• More significant feedback / self-evaluation being considered
• Significance for Author reputation and links into knowledge sharing and
community building in terms of following an author etc.
• Feedback from participants, have your say – likes or stars!

13. Building a community
• Increased visibility of authors
• Technical support to include community feedback i.e. members can post
issues and other SpeakApps users can comment as well as SpeakApps
Technicians
• Teacher Training feeding into the community and other dissemination
activities

14. Telecollaboration
SpeakApps platform as a
neutral meeting point for
partners engaged in
telecollaboration

15. Telecollaboration: Tandem MOOC
• 6 week course (27thOct- 5thDec)
• Level: B2 & B1+ EFL/ELE
• Learning objectives:
▫ Learner strategies for online speaking interaction with a native speaker
▫ Speaking skills
• Free (registration & certificate)
 We need help to identify native speakers of English learning Spanish Levels
B2 & B1

16. Using SpeakApps tools in the future?
The tools are not stand alone programmes.
When you want to use these tool in the future you can…
1. Use the tools via the SpeakApps platform.
2. Have the tools installed in your local LMS (Blackboard, Moodle etc)
a) Installed locally by LMS administrator
b) Installed and run off the SpeakApps cloud infrastructure
• Request a classroom from us and try the tool!

17. Thank you!
www.speakapps.eu / @speakapps
speakapps@uoc.edu