Emergent multilinguals learning languages with the iPad app iTEO: a study in primary schools in Luxembourg

peer reviewed ; The present small-scale study investigates language learning in primary schools in Luxembourg and the ways in which this process is mediated by peers and the iPad app iTEO. This study draws its data from the larger longitudinal qualitative research project iTEO (2013–2017) and is based on 13 hours of audio and video-recordings. The participants are 6–7-year-olds learning German and French. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this paper examines, first, the ways in which the emergent multilingual primary school children scaffold each other’s learning of German and French while col... Mehr ...

Verfasser: KIRSCH, Claudine
BES IZUEL, Maria Asuncion
Dokumenttyp: journal article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Verlag/Hrsg.: Routledge
Schlagwörter: The iPad app iTEO / peers / mediation / Social & behavioral sciences / psychology / Education & instruction / Sciences sociales & comportementales / psychologie / Education & enseignement
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29108129
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
Powered By: BASE
Link(s) : https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/29299

peer reviewed ; The present small-scale study investigates language learning in primary schools in Luxembourg and the ways in which this process is mediated by peers and the iPad app iTEO. This study draws its data from the larger longitudinal qualitative research project iTEO (2013–2017) and is based on 13 hours of audio and video-recordings. The participants are 6–7-year-olds learning German and French. Grounded in sociocultural theory, this paper examines, first, the ways in which the emergent multilingual primary school children scaffold each other’s learning of German and French while collaboratively producing oral texts on iTEO and, second, investigates the affordances of this app for learning. The findings show that the children’s language learning was mediated by peers, the task and the app. The children used a range of learning and teaching strategies while completing tasks framed by their teacher. iTEO and the task together mobilised the children’s resources, encouraged autonomy and promoted discussion about language. ; R-AGR-0222 - IRP14 - iTEO2 (20140501-20180228) - KIRSCH Claudine