Computer and Internet mediated narrative construction in EFL

Roots & routes in language education : bi-multi-plurilingualism, interculturality and identity. Selected papers from the 38th FAAPI Conference. Buenos Aires: APIBA.

Roots & routes in language education : bi-multi-plurilingualism, interculturality and identity. Selected papers from the 38th FAAPI Conference. Buenos Aires: APIBA

Lugar: BUENOS AIRES; Año: 2013; p. 263 - 277

The purpose of this contribution is to share our experience in the educational use of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) in higher education from a practical standpoint, and to show some of the applications we developed in 2011: the materials design project "Múltiples Narrativas y Enseñanzas de la Lengua. Las TIC´s como Medio para la Creatividad" was organized by the department of Distance Education at Facultad de Lenguas, within the framework of Proyecto Aulas en Red, 2011, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. This was an interdisciplinary work in which language teachers, educational experts,computer technicians and graphic designers contributed to the development of specific materials. This paper aims at showing how we used Moodle 2.3 to create and design an interactive narrative specially written for our students taking the course English Language I at School of Languages, UNC, so as to help them integrate the different contents of the units of the course in an interactive and engaging way. This descriptive presentation shows how to use technology mediated resources and implement Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and blended learning, following a narrative thread (Litwin, 2010) in order to create an innovative resource and to lower the number of drop outs in the first year the course of studies.