A NEW APPROACH FOR DISTANCE LANGUAGE LEARNING: COMPARING CURRENT PROGRAMS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDIO EDITING PROGRAMS

Autor(i)

  • Aysel Deregözü Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
  • Volkan Kanburoğlu Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v5i4.3688

Ključne riječi:

communicative competence, language education, distance learning, audio editing program, technology

Sažetak

The main goal in language education is to develop learners’ skills in oral communication that enables to interact in the target language. Yet, in times of the pandemic, activities supporting the development of communicative competences are difficult to implement, as these activities are arranged mostly for in – class settings with the need of students’ interactive participation. Hence, language education needs to be adapted according to the new circumstances. The aim of this study is to examine how open source audio editing programs can support language education especially in promoting oral competences and implementing communicative activities for in – class language education with social distance and distanced language education. For this aim, open source audio editing programs are examined and compared in view of their features. Within this aim the programs Audacity, Ardour, Ecasound, Jokosher, MusE, Qtractor, Rosegarden, SoX, Sweep and Traverso DAW are examined. Furthermore, on the example of the program Audacity, some useful features for preparing audios in language education are presented. It is recommended to use these programs in language education.

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Biografije autora

  • Aysel Deregözü, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
    Aysel Deregözü is currently teaching at Inonu University in Turkey. She graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Education, German Language Teaching and English Language Teaching Department. She received her M.A. in Istanbul University German Language Teaching Department. She received her PhD degree in German Language Teaching from Marmara University. German and English language teaching methods, language teacher education, linguistics are among her fields of interest.
  • Volkan Kanburoğlu, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
    Volkan Kanburoğlu is currently teaching at the Faculty of Education, Primary Education Department at Marmara University in Turkey. He received his PhD degree from Marmara University. Educational technologies, computer science education, primary education are among his field of interest.

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2021-04-18

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Svezak 5 Br. 4 (2021)

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