@inbook{25649cff30424461a0c2211a3048066c,
title = "The Development and Delivery of an Online Modern Greek Language Program",
abstract = "Since 2012, Flinders University in South Australia has been offering an online Modern Greek program to its students and also cross-institutionally to students of other Australian universities. The program includes both language and culture topics (A culture “topic” or a language “topic” is used to mean a culture “course” or a language “course” in this study.), but it was in the development of the language topics that we encountered specific challenges regarding quality practice in online teaching and learning. As our focus is on students developing communicative competence, the creation of learning materials and activities which maximized opportunities for communication was deemed essential. In line with this objective, we adopted a student-centred approach, allowing students to choose their mode of participation. In this chapter, we first identify the theoretical framework which underpins the development of the Modern Greek language program, and then describe the course in order to demonstrate that it is consistent with best practice in online language teaching and learning. Finally, we discuss the evaluation of the language program based on an online student survey conducted in 2015 and 2016.",
keywords = "Communicative competence, Language and culture, Modern Greek, Online language-learning, Student evaluation, Student-centred approach",
author = "Maria Palaktsoglou and Michael Tsianikas and Antonios Litinas and Cecily Wright",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-50925-5_16",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-50924-8",
series = "Language Policy",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "243--257",
editor = "Jean Fornasiero and Reed, {Sarah M A} and Rob Amery and Eric Bouvet and Kayoko Enomoto and Xu, {Hui Ling}",
booktitle = "Intersections in language planning and policy",
address = "Germany",
}