Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 87) (Volume 87)

This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence. This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials. Second language education as an open knowledge ecology / Carl S. Blyth and Joshua J. Thoms -- Open educational resources in heritage and L2 Spanish classrooms : design, development, and implementation / Gabriela Zapata and Alessandra Ribota -- Open by design : the Cultura project / Sabine Levet and Stephen Tschudi -- Open educational resources as tools to teach the indigenous languages of Latin America : where technology, pedagogy, and colonialism meet / Sergio Romero -- Openness in a crowdsourced massive online language community / Katerina Zourou and Anthippi Potolia -- Second language teachers and the open education movement in the United States : a national survey / Joshua J. Thoms and Frederick Poole -- Raising the curtain on OER/OEP : opening pathways from awareness to engagement in a graduate course on foreign language program direction / Beatrice Dupuy -- The role of OER in promoting critical reflection and professional development : the foreign languages and the literary in the everyday project / Carl S. Blyth, Chantelle Warner, and Joanna Luks -- The affordances and challenges of open access journals : the case of an applied linguistics journal / Dorothy Chun and Trude Heift -- Analyzing language teachers' tacit professional knowledge of OER : the case of Languages Open Resources Online (LORO) / Tita Beaven -- Towards a pedagogy of openness : bridging English-language and foreign-language digital humanities / Rebecca F. Davis and Carl S. Blyth -- Finding and using the good stuff : open educational practices for developing open educational resources / Christian Hilchey Compared with STEM fields, foreign language (FL) education and second language acquisition have only slowly embraced open education and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. FL educators may have been hesitant to participate in the open education movement due to a lack of research which investigates the benefits and challenges of FL learning and teaching in open environments. This book contextualizes open education in FL learning and teaching via an historical overview of the movement, along with an in-depth exploration of how the open movement affects FL education beyond the classroom context; fills the research void by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating, adapting and curating FL materials that are freely shared among FL educators and students.This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence. "This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials. This book is open access under a CC BY ND license"-- Provided by publisher This book contextualizes open education in foreign language (FL) learning and teaching; fills a gap in the research by exploring aspects of open second language learning and teaching across a range of educational contexts; and illustrates new ways of creating freely shared FL materials. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.