EuroCALL 2011 Courseware exhibition: the VoiceForum platform for spoken interaction.

John Fynn (1) , Ciara R. Wigham (1)

1 LRL - Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage

Showcased in the courseware exhibition, at the EuroCALL 2011 conference, VoiceForum is a web-based software platform for asynchronous learner interaction in threaded discussions using voice and text. A dedicated space is provided for the tutor who can give feedback on a posted message and dialogue with the participants at a separate level from the main interactional activity. In this way, the pedagogical input is always based on the contextualized needs of the participants, can be accessed as often as required and even searched as a resource for future reference. The software features a built-in sound recorder/player, a rich text editor and management tools to enrol participants, and create forums. Although still in the development stage, this software can be downloaded freely but must be installed on a web server. VoiceForum has been used extensively with French university students of English since 2006.

Mots clés: teacher feedback; spoken interaction; threaded voice forum; accuracy; fluency

Domaines: Education

John Fynn, Ciara R. Wigham. EuroCALL 2011 Courseware exhibition: the VoiceForum platform for spoken interaction.. European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning 2011 Conference, Aug 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-00642185⟩