1. Asynchronous Discussion Boards as Assessment Tool
Neil Hughes: Director of Modern Language Teaching

2. Asynchronous Discussion Boards

3. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Technical Features
Claims
Assessment
Business and Society in Spain

4. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Communication tool
Asynchronous
Threads
Archive
Embellish
Guidelines

5. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Spanish
Academic register/no emoticons
Word limit (maximum 300 words per message/minimum 2000 words in total)
2 messages/timeliness
Respect

6. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
General literature
Space and time
Collaboration (Garrison & Vaughan)
Voice
Assessment (Johnson, 2005)

7. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Language Learning
Brooke, M (2012)
“extremely powerful environments for second language learning”
Quantity and quality
Noticing and incidental learning
Genre

8. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
“Diary studies show how students in the UK allocate their time largely to assessed tasks and that this becomes a more narrow focus over time as they become experienced students, allocating as little as 5% of their time to un-assessed study tasks by the final year” (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004, p.13)

9. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Assessment
Expectations
Marking rubric
Writing workshop
Lexico-grammatical features of Spanish academic writing

10. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Facilitator
Instructors often dominate debates (Harrison & Selfe, 1998)
Question: Ice-breaker, cause-effect

11. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Participation
100%
Words:
Av: 2802
Contributions per question: 4-11
Av: 5.8

12. Asynchronous Discussion Boards
Quality
Appropriate academic register
Discipline specific
Specialised and distinctive
Authentic texts

13. Animating Title Bar Hi xxxxx
Well done- diplomatic, constructive, but, at the same time, authoritative.
Best wishes
Neil
Thanks,
I've spent all weekend contemplating my reply!
Appreciate your mail!!
See you tomorrow,

14. Non-Animating Title Bar

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