Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
SELF-PACED LEARNING: INVESTIGATING AN ONLINE TATAR LANGUAGE COURSE
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2016
Языканглийский
  • Gimaletdinova Gulnara Kamilevna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Gimaletdinova G., Khalitova L. Self-paced learning: Investigating an online Tatar language course // XLinguae Journal. - 2016. - Volume 9, Issue 3. - P. 81-92. ISSN 1337-8384. DOI: 10.18355/XL.2016.09.81-92
    Annotation research presented in this paper is a part of a larger project aimed at investigating the useful and challenging components of a self-paced online Tatar language school Ana Tele (?Mother Tongue?), which was designed in Kazan Federal University, Russia. We emphasized the importance of developing open online courses for such less commonly used languages as Tatar in order to support their ethnic identity and cultural integrity. Ana Tele is a unique and relatively new online environment for learning the Tatar language. It was launched in 2012 and within four years of its functioning has engaged 10084 users. In this study, we made a focus on a self-paced format of the course and analyzed the advantages and challenges of the project taking into account both the students? and the course-developers? perceptions. The data comprise a survey which was carried out with randomly chosen students of the course (N=170), face-to-face interviews with course participants who completed the survey (N=10) a
    Keywords Tatar language, online learning, self-paced language course, self-regulation, collaborative activities
    The name of the journal XLinguae
    URL http://www.xlinguae.eu/issue-n_3_2016.html
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