iTILT: Technology in Language Teaching
iTILT2 Project
The iTILT2 project developed and extended the existing work and further supported language learners and teachers in making the most of the acquisitional opportunities offered by educational technologies. iTILT2 moved beyond the IWB to focus on developing effective teaching and learning of second languages with a much wider range of new and emerging interactive technologies (such as iPads, tablet PCs and videoconferencing software), both independently and in combination. The data collection/professional development cycle included extensive teacher development involving researcher input and peer collaboration using face-to-face and online spaces, followed by two iterations of classroom filming and participant interviews.
The developed resources can be viewed via the Library and iTILT Resources pages.
Our International Partners
Across both iTILT and iTILT2 the following international partners contributed to the development of extensive resources.
iTILT
- TELLConsult (The Netherlands)
- Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg (Germany)
- Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France)
- British Council Barcelona (Spain)
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (UK)
- Bilkent University (Turkey)
- University of Antwerp – LINGUAPOLIS Institute (Coordinator, Belgium)
iTILT2
- Cardiff Metropolitan University (Coordinator, UK)
- University of Antwerp – LINGUAPOLIS Institute (Belgium)
- Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany)
- Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France)
- TELLConsult (The Netherlands)
- Bilkent University / Hacettepe University (Turkey)
Objective
The objective of iTILT2 was to promote effective foreign language teaching and learning by supporting teachers in their integration of a variety of interactive technologies into communicative classroom practice. This was achieved by producing a multilingual website, hosting videos and other project resources for the professional development of primary, secondary, and higher education teachers and lecturers.
Impact and Resources
The project successfully developed, promoted and disseminated new and innovative practice in supporting interactive language teaching in diverse European languages using ICT. The team produced an open educational resource multilingual website to host O1-4 of 117 video examples of the use of interactive technologies in second language teaching, a professional development e-resource, three mini-guides and library.
In collaboration with teachers, classroom activities were planned, videoed, edited and tagged to produce video examples of real teaching situations. Teacher and learner comments were used to help illuminate the video resources in primary (UK, FR, DE) and secondary (BE, FR) schools and tertiary education (TK, FR, DE), with resources in French, Welsh and Turkish. In addition, we worked with teachers to produce a professional development e-resource, pilot an online community of practice and produced a professional development e-resource and three mini guides. The website also allowed users to search a wide range of videos from the different sectors and to the ability to download our resources and find a range of other technology-related language teaching materials in the selected languages.
As a result, the iTILT and iTILT2 projects were used as a Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 case study. You can read more using the following link:
https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/da5ea9a8-5f0d-4623-8d77-795cab3db435?page=1