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The siLang Project

Welcome to the siLang project wiki!

The siLang wiki offers an easy way to share your experience and knowledge with other trainers regarding the siLang project. The wiki consists of wiki articles on siLang thematic areas that have been collaboratively constructed. Wiki articles can be composed, modified, or deleted in collaboration with other experts, trainers and/ or wiki users.

Happy wiki-ing!

List of thematic areas:

• About siLang project
• siLang Objectives
• The Target Sector
• Foreseen Outcomes
• Learning Requirements Definitions
  • Adult Learners and their Functional and Learning Needs
  • Language Instructors and their Functional and Professional Considerations
  • Active Learning Strategies for Adults
  • Situated Learning and Cognition
  • Game-based Approaches for Learning
  • Lingua Franca
  • Second Language (L2) Learning and Teaching Approaches
  • Communicative Approach to Language Teaching and Learning
  • Task Based Language Learning
  • Language Transfer-Interlanguage
  • The significance of errors in Language Learning
  • Error Analysis Approaches
  • Typology of Common Mistakes in L2
• Pedagogical Methodologies
  • Active Learning
  • Situated Learning
  • Game- based learning
• ICT tools for Foreign Language Instruction
• Serious Games
  • Serious Games for foreign language learning
  • Serious Games in other domains
• Evaluation Approaches
  • Research Evaluation
  • Formative and Summative Instructional Design Evaluation
  • Design Experiments
• Evaluation Methodologies for Language Learning
  • The Impressionistic Method
  • The Checklist Method
  • The In-depth Method
  • The Integrated Approach
• Validation Strategy
• Evaluation Methodologies for assessing the value of Educational Games
• The siLang Evaluation Framework
• Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies
  • Quantitative vs. qualitative research
  • Qualitative research sampling methodologies
  • Qualitative research models
  • The experimental method in qualitative research
• The siLang Evaluation Activities
  • Ethical considerations
  • siLang Internal Evaluation Activities

• References

For more details please visit the siLang Website