1) Project‘s Relevance for Online Educa

2) Concept and Objectives of the Blended-Learning Project

3) Empirical Study

4) Examples for Data and Corpus‘ gathering

5) Blended-learning Gilly Salmon‘s model and this project

What does the European Framework for Languages say*?

“They [the teachers] are expected to monitor the progress of pupils/students and

find ways of recognizing, analyzing and overcoming their learning problems...“

(2001: 141)*Strasbourg, Council of Europe,

2001

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Statistical Population in Statistical Population in Study:Study:

Portuguese language courses’ german students:

Breakthrough (A1) to Waystage (A2)

Mixed Case Study

Methodology:Methodology:

•observations in the classroom;

•errors’ immediate analysis on the online

exercises;

•subsequent correction.

Planning:Planning:

Data Gathering:Data Gathering:

• Diary of the observations• Moodle Platform Tools • Questionnaires and feedbacks

•Corpus compounded by:oral productions

•Corpus compounded by:written productions

The general concept of this Portuguese Teaching project accordingly with the 5-phase blended-

learning Gilly Salmon’s* Model:

*Open University Business School

First Contact with the

Modules of the Online Course.

Access and Motivation

Phase.

1. 1. TeacherTeacher

Communication and Interaction between the students and the

teacher.

Online Socialization Phase.

2. 2. Students Students

and and Teacher Teacher

3. Teacher3. Teacher

Involvement with the Course’s content and active exchange of

informations.

Information Exchange Phase.

Knowledge Active Creation .

Knowledge Construction

Phase.

4. 4. StudentsStudents

5. Teacher 5. Teacher and and

StudentsStudents

The student is now totally responsible

for his learning process.

Construction Phase.

Due to the changes it

methodologically implies, is

this teaching and learning

process viable and

successful?

Carla Sofia Amadoc.amado@mx.uni-saarland.de

www.szsb.uni-saarland.dehttp://sites.google.com/site/lusofonosb