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MOOCs in the Language Classroom: Using MOOCs as Complementary Materials to Support Self-Regulated Language Learning

MOOCs in the Language Classroom: Using MOOCs as Complementary Materials to Support Self-Regulated Language Learning
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Author(s): Barbara Conde Gafaro (The Open University, UK)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 18
Source title: Recent Tools for Computer- and Mobile-Assisted Foreign Language Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alberto Andujar (University of Almeria, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1097-1.ch009

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Abstract

In this chapter, the author discusses the role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the field of foreign language education. It examines the relationship between MOOCs and self-regulated learning, and goes on to explore the repurposing of content-based MOOCs as complementary materials to foster students' self-regulated behaviour and practice of the target language inside and out the language classroom. A research project that has explored self-regulated language learning in a blended context with content-based MOOCs is also discussed here, with particular reference to the self-regulatory strategies employed by a group of language students at University level. A series of recommendations that supports the use of content-based MOOCs as part of face-to-face language courses are provided at the end of this chapter.

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