L'apport original du forum de discussion de WebCT dans un cours d'anglais appliqué à l'archéologie
Rézeau, Joseph;
recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures2004Vol. 1pp. -
395
rzeau2004lapportrecherches
Abstract
As more and more French universities set up online courses, the relevance of so-called collaborative learning tools such as asynchronous electronic conferencing and their specific contribution compared to face-to-face teaching can be questioned. In an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) situation, it is expected that an online discussion forum will offer students the opportunity not only to be submitted to target language stimuli but also to produce language. This article first describes the general framework of the experiment led with our students of the English for Archaeology Course at the university of Rennes 2. We then adopt the typology suggested by Lamy & Goodfellow (1998) in order to find out whether the Discussion Forum we have set up is likely to give rise to the "reflective conversation" type of exchanges deemed by these authors to be the most favourable to language acquisition.