Lang uag e le arning s trate g ie s
in multime dia le arning
Laura Lo c ho re
WestOne Services

WestOne Services
Develop curriculum
resources for:
• K-12
• VET
• Careers
in CD-ROM, print
and DVD formats.

K-12 Languages products
Languages products:
 Indonesian
 Italian

 Language learning and com unication
m
strategies
 Collaborative learning strategies
 Literacy strategies
 Thinking skills
 Strategies for engaging learners
 Strategies for using digital resources.

Strategies? Do I do strategies?

Strategies: Why?
•Strategies facilitate learning
•Challenges to learning area
“Languages are all very well,
but we have to focus on
literacy”.

Literacy
 Functional literacy
 Critical literacy
–Intercultural understanding
– http://w w
w fp.education.tas.gov.au/English/critlit.htm
 Task design
–Literacy strategies
–Thinking skills
–Collaborative learning strategies

W are our learners and howdo they
ho
learn?
 Read the instructions
 Discovery learning
 Social learning
 Viewing
Metacognition:
Knowhowyou learnt something so
you can do it again.

Strategies to engage learners

 Boys “
rejected and resisted alm all school
ost
literacy practices … but w eager to
ere
em brace highly sophisticated literate practices
outside school… ”
 They rejected hom ork as “
ew boring, stupid,
w to easy”
ay .
 They w anted to “ w they learn”
use hat .

Online gam or language teaching
ing
strategies?
 Challenge (supported) and purpose
 Get straight in (learn by doing)
 Risk-taking and reward
 Interact, com unicate
m
 Learn from peers & see others learning
 Awareness of progress
 Develop identity
–“I’m an Indo ne s ian s pe ake r”

Incorporating strategies into tasks
 Task: create a video-clip (real/animated) in the
TL demonstrating the use of strategies.

Strategies for using digital technologies
 Beware IT fatigue
 Vary delivery/mode/media
–individual, sm group, w
all hole group
–screen, discussion, paper
 Teach IT strategies
–W eb-searching in TL, advanced searching,
evaluating validity of sites.
 Navigation

School Products Coordinator
Claire Dawson:
claire.dawson@det.wa.edu.au
T (08) 9229 5328
 Laura.lochore@ det.w a.edu.au
 Laura.lochore@ gm ail.com
 http://delicious.com/lauralochore
 Tw itter: bulolol