Using patterns-based learning design for CALL tasks. Issue 8 (23rd November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sun, Susan Y. H.
• Is Part Of: Computer assisted language learning. Volume 34:Issue 8(2021)
• Page Start: 1061
• Page End: 1084
• Publication Date: 2021-11-23
• Subjects: CALL design -- CALL task design -- patterns-based approach -- design patterns -- pattern language -- pedagogical patterns; Language and languages -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Periodicals; 418.00285
• DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2019.1657902
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0958-8221

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a specific case of CALL task design adopting the patterns-based learning design approach. The approach provides a common framework/vocabulary for educational designers, particularly teachers, to systematically capture, articulate, make explicit, share and reuse expert knowledge of teaching and good design. Over the past 10–15 years, considerable advances have been made in both learning design (LD) and learning analytics (LA) research in terms of research outputs. However, the anticipated impact and benefits, e.g. the patterns-based approach, to the everyday practice of teachers and learners have been invisible or mostly unrealized. Research to explore CALL task design with reference to LD and LA is underrepresented in the literature. The aim of this paper is to explain the challenges faced by CALL designers/teachers in task design and reflect on them methodologically with relation to the patterns-based approach. It firstly provides an overview of the CALL task design literature to highlight the gaps and weaknesses in the research and practice, followed by an introduction of the concept of design patterns . This paper then examines three CALL tasks from two current online language learning beginners courses in a New Zealand university, and develops them into design patterns. Explanation of how they were developed and discussion of the possible added value of design pattern to the design of CALL tasks are provided.