Design of a WebQuest for L2

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Design of a WebQuest for L2

• Language WebQuest Workshop
• Graz, 4-8 April

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Factors To Take Into Account

• Students age, grade, language command, etc.
• Resources availability, appropriateness,
  usability, etc.
• Your curricular contents didactic unit in which
  the WebQuest will be integrated, etc.
• Linguistic objectives in relation to vocabulary,
  form, use of language, etc.
• Other non-linguistic objectives collaboration
  skills, time organisation, social values, etc.

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Decide about the topic and the course
• good web resources
• the topic requires more than mere comprehension.
• Write down a list of topics
• Check the resources on the Web

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Define the setting and the TASK
• Have your students clearly in mind
• eg. their command or language
• Consider the linguistic interaction and the
  output.
• Task should trigger L2 use
• Task elements promote the command of form

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Define the transformation of the information that
  will take place by doing the task.
• What type of cognitive activity will the students
  will go through?
• Does the task represent the result of higher
  level thinking?

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Define the roles that the students will play
• Similar workload
• All roles involve using web resources.
• Search for resources to achieve linguistic and
  non-linguistic goals
• They imply processing of a lot of materials in
  the L2
• They are authentic, attractive and varied.

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Write down the PROCESS
• Describe step by step what to do
• examine all the information
• start transforming it
• finish the end product
• Say what resources will be used
• How Students will treat the information

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Write down the PROCESS
• Prepare the scaffolding, including linguistic
  one focused on meaning and form
• Reception scaffolding
• Transformation scaffolding
• Production scaffolding

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Steps to create a LQuest

• Define the EVALUATION
• Dimensions we should consider
• Write the CONCLUSION
• Reflect back on what they learned and about their
  own process of learning.
• Go ahead in learning