online learning and presentation platform that combines interactive activities (such as quizzes and interactive videos) with content delivery, both synchronously and asynchronously. The platform can be used to implement assessment activities and is compatible with multiple applications.
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Learning While Teaching: Harnessing the Potential of Peer-to-Peer Learning to Enhance Language Learning
Sandra Vieira Vasconcelos (School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8656-6.ch005
Abstract
Focussing on a project carried out within the scope of an English Applied to Tourism course, this chapter describes a teaching and learning strategy, putting forward the underlying rationale and outlining its design, implementation, and assessment phases. The project, whose aims included fostering students' language and critical thinking skills, challenged Hotel Management students to collaborate to produce online training modules for their peers. Relying on the use of digital technologies, most particularly LMS, and cloud-based student engagement and graphic design tools (including Nearpod and Canva), these modules were peer-reviewed and implemented, with students acting as both facilitators and reviewers. Building on existing research on the affordances of peer learning within the scope of foreign language teaching, the author frames the different activities, reflecting on how peer learning strategies can enhance students' engagement and agency, offering insights that can support English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teachers, as well as other practitioners.