The ENACT Web App Prizes will be awarded to the people who upload the best cultural activities for language learning using the ENACT ‘CREATE’ author software during the period 15 January to 31 May 2024. We aim to increase the number of languages and cultures on the ENACT app by rewarding materials in languages and cultures which we do not already have.
Paul Seedhouse travelled to Thailand and New Zealand during November 2023 and gave a number of talks on the ENACT web app.
At the WORLDCALL Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand (11 November), he gave 3 talks on various aspects of ENACT, including a workshop in which delegates made cultural materials to upload onto ENACT. He was helped by Newcastle graduate Dr Sumita Supakorn (pictured left) and current PhD student Pattaramas Jantasin. The photo shows Loy Krathong banana leaf boats made for the famous Thai festival.
At ENACT, we pride ourselves on creating exciting new ways to learn languages. In 2023, with support from the The Confucius Institute at Newcastle University, we have collated a package of Chinese cultural activities for you to try. You can learn the Chinese words for ‘banana’ and ‘orange’, whilst making Beijing Ice Candy, or the words for ‘fire’ and ‘forest’, whilst trying calligraphy. Not only will you learn new words and discover a new culture, you will have fun whilst doing it!
We are organising a workshop as part of the Festival of Languages again this year. Join us on 24 March 2023 to learn Chinese language and culture with ENACT. We will also celebrate the International Day of Multilingualism (25 March). A number of schools will visit Newcastle University and students will participate in in-person workshops at the ilab:learn. For more information, please visit: https://expressyourselfne.com/enact/
New activities, presentations, and more!
Just before the year ends, we would like to share some of our new activities, presentations and publications:
Dr Müge Satar gave a hybrid talk on 11 November 2022 on the implementation of the ENACT web app in virtual exchange as part of her research visit to Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (https://www.pucrs.br/en/) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
We are very happy to be part of the World Teachers' Day event organised by the British Council on 1 October 2022.
It was a brilliant organisation with many thought-provoking, motivating and inspiring talks.
The Barcelona team were very busy last year. From May until October they ran 5 workshops consisting of 4 sessions each. Most of the first meetings have been done face to face, even though the gatherings are still restricted to six people whereas most of the final sessions have been done online, due to the participants’ timetables (time off from work, etc). They completed the workshops in December.
Well done to Irene Calderer who wins GOLD PRIZE of £200 for her Punjabi Dance activity.
Matilda Atkinson wins a silver prize and NEST prize of £100 for her Traditional Roast Dinner activity, while Simin Ren wins a silver prize of £100 for her activity called Cooking a Chinese recipe - Eggplant Stir Fry.
Don't forget to check out these activities on the web app and comment with a photo or video!
Click on the title and check out the pdf to read all about our multiplier event in Istanbul!
Our partners in Barcelona organised a multiplier event on 15 June 2022 at Sala de Graus, Faculty of Education Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Please see the programme below and a brief outcomes report attached.
The celebration is part of the Refugee Week 2022 events. Please see the event flyer and programme attached.
Learning languages through culture with the ENACT app
View the recording of the interactive session on 16th March here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cHtAPkOKU
Read more about the workshop on the Express Yourself website here: https://expressyourselfne.com/2022/03/30/enact-16mar/
Learn all about our app using cultural tasks for digital language learning: https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/
Read the latest Newcastle University press release about our co-production workshops and initial results!
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/11/enactxmas/
How to learn language through culture?
Watch the video of Paul Seedhouse's talk at Oxford University on the ENACT app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zpvms5yyJw
Our latest newsletter is available and has all the details of our workshops at Newcastle, Helsinki and Boğaziçi Universities. Don't forget to hit subscribe if you'd like more information!
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Read the Newcastle University press release and information about ENACT on the International Newcastle pages.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/02/enact/
https://internationalnewcastle.org.uk/enact-learn-language-through-culture
Our first newsletter is available now and gives you all the information you need on the launch of the ENACT web app! If you'd like to receive regular updates on the ENACT project, hit the subscribe tab in the newsletter.
Download Newsletter 1: February 2021 or read it below.
As the summer ends, we look forward upcoming collaborations within the ENACT team. We are finalising our assessment and recognition tools (Output 3) and getting ready to launch our web app! Watch this space!
The summer has been very busy and at times turbulent for most of us. As we tried to adjust to new ways of working online, conferences we planned to attend also moved online and we delivered two virtual presentations.
Many thanks to our Helsinki team for hosting our second transnational project meeting virtually!
Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, we were unable to visit the beautiful city of Helsinki and meet, eat, and connect in person. Yet, despite all the challenges of remote working and increased workload, all our project consortium members joined our meetings on 4 and 5 June, and we made a lot of progress for our assessment and recognition tools and frameworks, research and impact as well as dissemination work.
Following the recent concerning and uncertain events happening in the world we may expect at least one sure thing: the needs and demands for the interactive technologies for education, work, communication and entertainment will only rise. Today we continue our story about the technologies we used during our workshops with the ones that our participants were particularly curious to try – as itself 360/VR video is.
After having 7 participants talk and share their own cultural activities and thoughts about creating content for the app, Barcelona is ready to analyse their data.
Our students at Newcastle University studying MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL visited the iLab: learn last Tuesday as part of their Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) module.
During the needs analysis workshops in January-February, our participants introduced to a variety of different media tools: interactive image, interactive slide, interactive video, normal video, 360/VR video, and 360 picture. One of the workshops’ result will be assessment of those technologies to understand the requirements of our prospective ENACT app users.
We have completed two more workshops in order to understand the requirements of our prospective ENACT app users: one in Newcastle and one in Istanbul.
