TY - GEN
T1 - Technology Affordances in the Web-Based Learning Environment for SLA
T2 - 19th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2020 and 5th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2020
AU - Wang, Jin
AU - Chen, Zili
AU - Jin, Nana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper reports on a case study exploring how technology affordances were perceived and acted on by a Chinese English learner in the time of COVID-19 from an ecological perspective. Qualitative data for the study came from the participant’s learning journals, a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Findings of the study indicated that learning emancipation, anxiety reduction and sociocultural identity construction were three most salient dimensions in the focal student’s perceptions and that the emergence of technology affordances in the interaction between the learner and the learning environment was a complex one, not only mediated by the learner but also sensitive to the specific knowledge area where learning was taking place. The ecological perspective and the notion of affordance adopted in the study have proved to be informative and efficient in exploring students’ perceptions and interaction with their learning environments.
AB - This paper reports on a case study exploring how technology affordances were perceived and acted on by a Chinese English learner in the time of COVID-19 from an ecological perspective. Qualitative data for the study came from the participant’s learning journals, a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Findings of the study indicated that learning emancipation, anxiety reduction and sociocultural identity construction were three most salient dimensions in the focal student’s perceptions and that the emergence of technology affordances in the interaction between the learner and the learning environment was a complex one, not only mediated by the learner but also sensitive to the specific knowledge area where learning was taking place. The ecological perspective and the notion of affordance adopted in the study have proved to be informative and efficient in exploring students’ perceptions and interaction with their learning environments.
KW - Affordance
KW - Ecological perspective
KW - Educational technologies
KW - Learning environment
KW - SLA
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85101561610
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/f2419136-d72c-3b89-b1e2-4b33545b486d/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-66906-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-66906-5_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85101561610
SN - 9783030669058
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 25
EP - 37
BT - Learning Technologies and Systems - 19th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2020, and 5th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Pang, Chaoyi
A2 - Gao, Yunjun
A2 - Chen, Guanliang
A2 - Popescu, Elvira
A2 - Chen, Lu
A2 - Hao, Tianyong
A2 - Zhang, Bailing
A2 - Navarro, Silvia Margarita
A2 - Li, Qing
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 22 October 2020 through 24 October 2020
ER -