The Role of Modularity and Mobility in Language MOOCs

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Elena Bárcena
Timothy Read

Abstract

This article reflects on the suitability of MOOCs for second language learning. It is argued
that such LMOOCs can potentiate large-scale student interaction to facilitate verbal
competence development if the course content is carefully structured to this end, i.e.,
modular, diversified and scaffolded. Most LMOOCs consist of texts/recordings followed by
highly structured activities. A modularly organised LMOOC has advantages for heterogeneous
groups by offering more activities than are strictly necessary for the ideal average student
(extra-theory, extra-simple activities to be used as didactic scaffolding) and making
students complete only a certain percentage of the total. The article also argues that
Mobile Assisted LMOOCs offer diversity to student-centred learning that opens the door to
a variety of itinerant and context-based scenarios that blur the line between formal and
informal language learning and our own digital living.

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The Role of Modularity and Mobility in Language MOOCs. (2015). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 28-35. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2015.4068