Promoting Inclusivity in a Language Learning Application

ISBN-13: 9783659440632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 644 str.

Stienen-Durand Silke

Opis

Language learning applications are ubiquitous in this digital age, but the educational models they forward continue, despite legislation, to marginalise the cognitively impaired. In this paper a concurrent transformative-emancipatory mixed methods lens has been applied in a user-centred design process that promotes an advocacy-participatory ideology, and thus actively engages the cognitively impaired in the design of a language learning application. The mixed methods data collected, and subsequently implemented in the application, provided the foundation for a wholly inclusive language learning application with specific focus on learning strategies and accessibility features that support not only the generality of users, but also the cognitively impaired.

O autorze

With a Masters in Writing, a Cambridge English Language Teaching Award, and a Web Design and Development degree, Silke has devoted her academic life to the development of learning strategies in eLearning. Her dyslexia has prompted her to develop modes of learning for the cognitively impaired in that time. Silke works as a UX architect in London.