NOTE FOR EDITOR: Service Learning In Distance Education: Foreign Language Learning Environments

Muhlise Coşgun OGEYIK; Emre GUVENDIR

Article Details

NOTE FOR EDITOR: Service Learning In Distance Education: Foreign Language Learning Environments

Authors:

Muhlise Coşgun OGEYIK | Emre GUVENDIR

Publisher:

Anadolu University

Journal:

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2009 Vol.10 Issue 1, pp.9-20

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

2/2009

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000783783

Frequency:

Quarterly

pISSN:

1302-6488

Abstract:

 

In general education, in particular foreign language education, can be acknowledged as a lifelong learning process which can be transformed beyond the borders in global sense. Learning a foreign language requires proficiency in four basic skills which are reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Of these skills, speaking and listening are the most daunting tasks for learners and create obstacles when learners of target language do not get the chance of meeting native speakers. Such obstacles can be overwhelmed by integrating certain applications into education process. Service-learning through the internet as a teaching method can be considered one of the most striking one of those applications for foreign language learners. In this paper, the benefits of service-learning are discussed and some suggestions are offered for introducing this method in foreign language settings. By implementing service-learning, it is concluded that learners of any foreign language may get the chance of communicating with native speakers during the course time in foreign language without going abroad. Such an application may also enhance learners to get information about foreign culture by raising awareness of “otherness” and comparing other culture and their own culture. In addition, service-learning as a method of teaching, learning and reflecting combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service from the members of learning community and may generate conditions in which lifelong learning will continue.

Article Details

NOTE FOR EDITOR: Service Learning In Distance Education: Foreign Language Learning Environments

Authors: Muhlise Coşgun OGEYIK | Emre GUVENDIR

Publisher: Anadolu University

Journal: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2009 Vol.10 Issue 1, pp.9-20

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 2/2009

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000783783

Frequency: Quarterly

pISSN: 1302-6488

Issues

NOTE FOR EDITOR: Service Learning In Distance Education: Foreign Language Learning Environments

Authors:

Muhlise Coşgun OGEYIK | Emre GUVENDIR

Publisher:

Anadolu University

Journal:

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2009 Vol.10 Issue 1, pp.9-20

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

2/2009

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000783783

Frequency:

Quarterly

pISSN:

1302-6488