Title: Producing Travel Vlogs as a Collaborative Task in English Classes With a Soft CLIL Approach
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Mariko Takahashi, Setsunan University, Japan
Abstract:
Making travel vlogs is a way to record events and memories of a trip and share them with others. A previous study by the author (2021) analyzed YouTube-style videos of six genres made individually by EFL university students and pointed out the necessity of adjusting the task for more collaborative learning and language learning. In response to this, the current study assigned a collaborative travel vlog producing task to new groups of EFL university students and addressed the following research questions. 1) How and to what extent does this task contribute to language learning and content learning in English communication classes with a soft CLIL approach? 2) Which task functions better as a CLIL task, a travel vlog producing task or a YouTube-style video making task? Twenty-nine students from two universities in Japan participated and produced thirteen travel vlogs either in pairs or in groups collaboratively. Following the method of analysis adopted in the previous study (author, 2021) to enable comparison, the contents of the travel vlogs and the responses on the worksheets were analyzed qualitatively and the English narration and captions were analyzed linguistically. The results showed that the travel vlog task enabled the participants to produce target linguistic expressions in an authentic context and that collaboration with their peers promoted active engagement in the task. Specifying the genre to travel vlogs helped to make the learning goals clearer both in terms of language and content, and therefore, the task proved to be more suitable as a CLIL task.
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