Resources at the Interface of Openness for Academic English - Open Education Consortium
Channel: alannah fitzgerald
Date: 2019-11-05

Drawing on Long’s social interface theory (Long, 1989 & 2001) and his method of analysis from the fields of anthropology and development,  data is presented from interviews with language teachers and subject academics engaged in the development of open corpora (Fitzgerald, Wu & Marin, 2015; Fitzgerald, Wu & Barge, 2014). This research locates and analysis the interfaces where social friction can be experienced with the adoption of open educational practices and where the diffusion of open tools, resources and practices for domain-specific academic English can lead to structural discontinuities (both positive and negative) in formal and informal language education. Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014