Schedule: Virtual Strand (Conference Hall 3) Day and time to be announced

Title: Webquest and Moodle in an ESP-CALL environment
Authors: Begoña Bellés- Fortuño, Mercedes Querol-Julian
Abstract:
This abstract focuses on how a self-created Webquest activity (Purchasing from your Desk!- http://www3.uji.es/~bbelles/mywebquest/index.htm), included in the WebquestCat database (http://webquest.xtec.cat/enlla/), has been implemented at a tertiary education level at Universitat Jaume I with the help of moodle. The interest for webquests as pedagogical tools has been increasing in the last 10 years (Dodge 2004, Adell 2004, Barba 2002). Although webquests have been more frequently used in secondary school settings, the webquest experience presented here is developed in the higher education classroom. Purchasing from your desk! webquest has been designed using Business English contents for university English language students with an emphasis on written and spoken competences. The experience takes place at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain), a pioneer university in the implementation of Virtual Learning Interfaces. Currently, moodle is used for every single degree and subject offered at Universitat Jaume I, as well as for every postgraduate course and module with the support of a Computer Science Office where moodle administrators work.

The webquest presented here has been developed following the FOCUS guiding principles proposed by Dodge (2002), where a webquest should aim at helping collaborative and cooperative learning from a constructivist paradigm. We have also taken into consideration the European Tuning Project (http://unideusto.org/tuning) subject specific and generic competences. However, the webquest Purchasing from your desk! has been integrated in moodle, thus becoming a hybrid course with moodle providing interactive aspects. Students are distributed in groups to produce different business letters (inquiring, placing an order and complaining). Along with EHEA (Eurpean Higher Education Area) premises where students have to work cooperatively by means of activities that promote critical thinking, generic competences and transferable skills, in this webquest students have to peer review the letters produced by their mates. To facilitate this process, moodle has allowed us to create a user-friendly students document submission and retrieval system for both students and teachers/supervisors. Moodle has also allowed us to automatically record student’s peer reviewed grades as well as teachers’/supervisors’. Moreover, we have created a forum to enable students to communicate among them, among their group members or among the rest of the classroom. An individual tutorial forum with the teacher/supervisor has also been opened, where students mostly asked and commented about the difficulties of peer reviewing their mates work; even though the evaluation rubrics (business letter evaluation rubric, peer review evaluation rubric and oral presentation evaluation rubric) were available during the whole activity process.

Keywords: Webquest, Moodle, English language learning, tertiary education

Main topic: Innovative e-learning solutions for languages

Biodata: Begoña Bellés Fortuño holds a PhD degree in English Philology from Universitat Jaume I in Castelló. She is an English lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I where she currently teaches English for Computer Science as well as in the degree of Industrial Engineering within the frame of the EURUJI Project for European students mobility. Merche Querol Julián holds a predoctoral grant for training research staff in the Department of English Studies, at Universitat Jaume I. Since 2006 she is contributing to the creation of a multimodal corpus of academic spoken events in English and Spanish in the university context. She defended her MA thesis in 2008. In this year she also was awarded a Morley Scholarship at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan.
Type of presentation Online presentation (Virtual Strand)

Paper category Reflective Practice

Target educational sector Higher education

Language of delivery English

Schedule:	Virtual Strand (Conference Hall 3) Day and time to be announced
Title:	Webquest and Moodle in an ESP-CALL environment
Authors:	Begoña Bellés- Fortuño, Mercedes Querol-Julian
Abstract:	This abstract focuses on how a self-created Webquest activity (Purchasing from your Desk!- http://www3.uji.es/~bbelles/mywebquest/index.htm), included in the WebquestCat database (http://webquest.xtec.cat/enlla/), has been implemented at a tertiary education level at Universitat Jaume I with the help of moodle. The interest for webquests as pedagogical tools has been increasing in the last 10 years (Dodge 2004, Adell 2004, Barba 2002). Although webquests have been more frequently used in secondary school settings, the webquest experience presented here is developed in the higher education classroom. Purchasing from your desk! webquest has been designed using Business English contents for university English language students with an emphasis on written and spoken competences. The experience takes place at Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain), a pioneer university in the implementation of Virtual Learning Interfaces. Currently, moodle is used for every single degree and subject offered at Universitat Jaume I, as well as for every postgraduate course and module with the support of a Computer Science Office where moodle administrators work. The webquest presented here has been developed following the FOCUS guiding principles proposed by Dodge (2002), where a webquest should aim at helping collaborative and cooperative learning from a constructivist paradigm. We have also taken into consideration the European Tuning Project (http://unideusto.org/tuning) subject specific and generic competences. However, the webquest Purchasing from your desk! has been integrated in moodle, thus becoming a hybrid course with moodle providing interactive aspects. Students are distributed in groups to produce different business letters (inquiring, placing an order and complaining). Along with EHEA (Eurpean Higher Education Area) premises where students have to work cooperatively by means of activities that promote critical thinking, generic competences and transferable skills, in this webquest students have to peer review the letters produced by their mates. To facilitate this process, moodle has allowed us to create a user-friendly students document submission and retrieval system for both students and teachers/supervisors. Moodle has also allowed us to automatically record student’s peer reviewed grades as well as teachers’/supervisors’. Moreover, we have created a forum to enable students to communicate among them, among their group members or among the rest of the classroom. An individual tutorial forum with the teacher/supervisor has also been opened, where students mostly asked and commented about the difficulties of peer reviewing their mates work; even though the evaluation rubrics (business letter evaluation rubric, peer review evaluation rubric and oral presentation evaluation rubric) were available during the whole activity process.
Keywords:	Webquest, Moodle, English language learning, tertiary education
Main topic:	Innovative e-learning solutions for languages
Biodata:	Begoña Bellés Fortuño holds a PhD degree in English Philology from Universitat Jaume I in Castelló. She is an English lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I where she currently teaches English for Computer Science as well as in the degree of Industrial Engineering within the frame of the EURUJI Project for European students mobility. Merche Querol Julián holds a predoctoral grant for training research staff in the Department of English Studies, at Universitat Jaume I. Since 2006 she is contributing to the creation of a multimodal corpus of academic spoken events in English and Spanish in the university context. She defended her MA thesis in 2008. In this year she also was awarded a Morley Scholarship at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan.
Type of presentation	Online presentation (Virtual Strand)
Paper category	Reflective Practice
Target educational sector	Higher education
Language of delivery	English