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Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education: An Introduction
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Abstract

This chapter describes a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University conference (InnoConf), which took place in June 2017 at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. The theme of the conference was "Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education." The aim of the conference was to engage in productive collaboration between language professionals to further equip students to succeed in the ever-growing landscape of formal and informal learning. Given the unprecedented amount of online resources and communities available to language learners, the conference focused on exploring how language teachers are integrating these opportunities into their settings. The book is divided in three sections: (1) Learning Collaboratively Online: Attitudes, Motivation, and Learning Communities; (2) Testing and Evaluating Language Learning Tools; and (3) The Polyglot Community: An Interview with Richard Simcott, which was the second keynote of the conference. [For the complete volume, "Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education," see ED585162.]

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Rosell-Aguilar, F., Beaven, T. & Fuertes Gutiérrez, M. Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education: An Introduction. Retrieved August 12, 2024 from .

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