PDF - I.C.T. and Young Language Learners (2003)

This publication describes a project which aimed at integrating web-based communication with a thematic story approach to teaching a foreign language to 8 to 10 year-olds. The aim was to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a medium over which children could publish their language productions to an audience of peers from participating schools in 21 European countries. This necessitated the development of a 'convivial' software tool children could use unassisted to upload their stories and illustrations to the project web site, as well as a communicative pedagogy centered around the construction of publishable stories and other language artifacts.