Participation in the event is free of charge. However, a simple registration is required. A link to join the webinar will be sent to all registered participants by email prior to the event.

• Event is free
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The DC4LT team will introduce the topic of the event – Digital Language Teaching – that is teaching languages with digital technologies. The team will say a few words about the DC4LT community and the open educational resources we developed so far.

This talk will present how we create meaning in a second language online, how we help our learners to comprehend the language during online tutorials, and how we draw their attention to salient features of their language learning tasks. Underpinning these practical aspects of online language teaching is our understanding of what constitutes knowledge and how we can ensure that our pedagogies build on this understanding. Furthermore, there will be a short intro to the ICT-REV inventory platform that contains a list of useful free tech tools for language teachers that have been evaluated with specific criteria in mind.

The topic of this talk is how to effectively exploit ubiquitous technology in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. The presentation begins with a consideration of the role that MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning) has contributed to this process then proceeds to suggest ways that this contribution needs to expand to more fully exploit the language learning potential of mobile technologies.

In this flash talk, we will present results from the Digital Competence Assessment Survey and Job Market Analysis, both recently completed by the DC4LT team.

The survey assessed how language teachers use digital technologies, their attitude towards these technologies, their related skills and competencies, their satisfaction and required improvement, and the institutional support they receive. The survey was answered by 267 language teachers from 43 countries.

We will also present the results of a job market study for language teachers, which we conducted to explore the employers’ expectations in addition to the teachers’ perspective. We collected 854 job announcements for language teachers from 11 countries to check if the policies in digitalization and education have a direct impact on language teaching jobs.

We conclude the presentation by introducing our second survey to analyze how the situation has changed due to the pandemic challenges. We will use the results to produce guidelines and tools to help teachers efficiently use available technologies in their blended and online language teaching.

In this flash talk, we will present a new digital competence assessment framework specifically designed for language teachers. The design of the framework is based on a survey of assessment frameworks and methods available to assess teachers’ digital competence. The Digital Competence Assessment framework for Language Teachers provides a general reference frame for developers of digital competence models for language teachers. The framework is accompanied by an assessment tool that can be used the language teachers who wish to assess their digital competences or find guidance to develop them.

This flash talk presents a trainer guide developed to assists teacher trainers in language education. The guide consists of (a) an overview of training methodologies for language learning in face-to-face, online, and blended formats, (b) a framework model for teacher training developed based on the experience from two series of webinars conducted by DC4LT in 2021, and (c) a collection of 16 teacher training modules, fully described and available as OERs.

This flash talk presents a toolkit designed for language teachers to guide and advise on the practical use of digital technologies. The toolkit provides an overview of over 20 technologies commonly used in language teaching. Each technology section is supplied with examples of digital tools, open educational resources, open educational practices, and common practices in training the basic language skills speaking, writing, listening, and reading.

The floor will be open for any questions form the participants!

The DC4LT team will introduce the program of the second day with the third keynote and three interactive workshops. We will also give a brief overview of the two series of webinars organized by DC4LT team in 2021.

This talk will present the use of modern machine learning techniques and the utilization of stylistic features in order to automatically determine the reading difficulty of a text and its suitability for a specific level of language learning. More specifically, it will showcase such a system for classifying Greek texts at language proficiency levels to facilitate the teaching of Modern Greek as a foreign language.

This talk will present the use of modern machine learning techniques and the utilization of stylistic features in order to automatically determine the reading difficulty of a text and its suitability for a specific level of language learning. More specifically, it will showcase such a system for classifying Greek texts at language proficiency levels to facilitate the teaching of Modern Greek as a foreign language.

The workshop deals with the concept of Multimodality and the ways it could be successfully implemented in English Language Teaching and Learning. The basic premise is driving away from the conventional monomodal texts to genres that include more multimodality, like infographics, comics, etc. These may ensure better language acquisition, learning and retainment of the materials learnt. The participants will not only gain insights into the concept of multimodality in teaching but also gain some practical insights into how different skills and sub-skills could be developed more effectively.

Moodle LMS, as the official platform used in many universities worldwide, provides endless possibilities to the instructor to create and structure the content of the course. With Moodle Quiz the instructor can create activities either for consolidation or for assessment. However, one could be overwhelmed by the number of templates available and by the various ways each one can be used. Moodle 3.9 offers 16 Question types and in this workshop, we discuss some of these types demonstrating how to create activities for a language class using Moodle Quiz. The aim is to develop the instructors’ skills for using this technology and encouraging in this way the successful technological implementation in a language class. Moodle is an easy-to-use tool whose integration in a language class can only be beneficial for both the learner and the instructor. We explain how to design online activities and Quizzes using the Moodle LMS by presenting a general description and then a step-by-step guide to create the activity. Sample activities are also being presented. This workshop addresses all language educators who are interested in teaching languages through Moodle LMS and provide them with a guide to follow in order to assist them create their own language activities (see also Antoniou & Papadima-Sophocleous, 2022).

The floor will be open for any questions form the participants!