DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGLISH STUDIES

UNIT 1 ENGLISH STUDIES DATABASES AND ONLINE LIBRARIES
1. DigComp
  1. 5 key areas of digital competence
    1. Information and data literacy
    2. Communication and collaboration
    3. Digital content creation
    4. Safety
    5. Problem solving
2. Databases & bibliographic platforms
  1. MLA Modern Languages Association publications
    1. MLA International Bibliography
    2. MLA Directory of Periodicals
  2. ERIC Education Resources Information Center
  3. JSTOR
  4. LION Literature Online
3. Generic bibliographic databases
  1. Dialnet (UNED)
  2. EBSCO
  3. REBIUN
4. The UNED Library platform
5. Open online resources
  1. Google Scholar
  2. Google Books
6. E-journals
7. E-books
  1. Ebook Central
  2. O'Reilly Safari Books Online
  3. Elsevier/Science Direct
  4. E-BUNED
8. Open access libraries
  1. Gutenberg Project
  2. Open Library
  3. Europeana
  4. Luminarium
UNIT 3 STUDYING AND RESEARCHING COLLABORATIVELY WITH TECHNOLOGY
1. CoP Communities of Practice and professional forums
  1. CoP for language teachers and researchers
    1. Webheads
    2. AEDEAN Spanish Association for English and American Studies
    3. AESLA Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada
    4. TESOL International Association of English to Speakers of Other Languages
    5. IATEFL International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
    6. EuroCALL European Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning
    7. CALICO Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium
2. CoP main elements
  1. domain
  2. community
  3. practice
3. CoP designed for students of foreign languages
  1. Busuu
  2. The Mixxer
4. Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication tools ACMC
  1. Blogs
  2. Microblogging
    1. Twitter
    2. Instagram
5. Social networks in professional and academic contexts
  1. For general public
    1. Facebook
6. Social networks with professional purposes
  1. LinkedIn
7. Academic social networks
  1. ResearchGate
  2. Academia.edu
8. Synchronous Computer-Mediated tools
  1. Instant Messaging IM VoIP
    1. Skype (for Business)
    2. Office365 Teams chat
  2. Mobile Apps
    1. Whatsapp
  3. Tools for videoconferencing and webinars
    1. BigBlueButton
    2. Blackboard Collaborate
    3. Adobe Connect
    4. MS Teams
    5. Zoom
    6. Google Meet
UNIT 2 MANAGING BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES WITH SPECIALISED SOFTWARE
1. BMA Bibliographic Management Applications/ RMS Reference managing Software
  1. creation+organization+management of bibliographic references
    1. Main elements BMA
      1. Adding new data
        Manually
        Directly: complement or extension
        Indirectly: TXT, XML, RIS, BibTeX, etc.
        Other methods: external access, RSS, PDF, etc.
      2. Managing data
        classify
        tags
        folders
        add notes
        personalize
      3. Generating bibliography
        Automatically
        directly from the application
        using a word processor
  2. Typology
    1. open-source
      1. Zotero
    2. commercial software
      1. EndNote (mixed)
      2. RefWorks
      3. Mendeley (mixed)
        main features:
        Web importer
        direct
        adding in-cites and generating bibliographies
        Adding references
        manually
        indirectly
        PDF format
UNIT 5 ACCESSIBILITY AND EMERGING FORMATS IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
1. Manual of style
  1. APA American Psychological Association
    1. Psychology, Linguistics and Education
  2. MLA Modern Language Association
    1. Modern Languages and Humanities
  3. Chicago Manual of Style
2. Formatting your paper
  1. MLA style
  2. APA style
  3. Referencing articles, books and websites
  4. Using BMAs to quote and create bibliographic lists of references
    1. In-text citations
      1. RefWorks
      2. Mendeley
    2. Generating a reference list
      1. RefWorks
      2. Mendeley
3. Tools for getting your work published
  1. Publication for general topics (Newspapers, Magazines)
    1. Publications created through curation methods
      1. Scoop.it
      2. Publications based on pagination
      3. E-page Creator
      4. 3DIssue
  2. Software for Academic/Scientific journals and conference management
    1. PKP Public Knowledge Project
      1. OJS Open Journal System
      2. OCS Open Conference System
    2. OpenEdition Journals
  3. Creating books and e-books
    1. QuarkExpress 2018
    2. Adobe InDesign
4. Accessibility
  1. important
    1. Inclusivity
    2. Compliance
    3. User experience
    4. Searchability
    5. Usability
      1. principles
        simple and intuitive design
        efficiency
        consistency
        feedback
        error prevention and recovery
  2. two ways
    1. any document accessible by any user regardless the device used
    2. any document understood by everyone, regardless the browser or adaptive equipment used
  3. Web Accessibility Initiative "guidelines"
5. Artificial Intelligence in English Studies and Research
  1. ChatGPT and English Studies
    1. language analysis and research
    2. analysis of literary texts
    3. language learning
    4. translation
    5. automated writing
    6. research tool
    7. writing assistant
UNIT 4 COLLECTING AND ANALYSING DATA WITH SPECIALISED SOFTWARE
1. Visualisation of information
  1. techniques
    1. concept map
      1. top-down
    2. mindmap
      1. hierarchical
    3. conceptual diagram
      1. pre-defined
    4. visual metaphor
      1. familiar graphic
  2. tools
    1. Mind Manager
    2. FreeMind
    3. CMapTools
    4. GoConqr
2. Data collection
  1. tools to improve the retrieval and analysis of data
    1. CAQDAS Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
      1. Qualitative research textual data
        software used
        tools to record conversations
        Audacity
        software to transcribe interviews
        Tansana
        analysing data with CAQDAS
        NVivo
        Atlas.ti
        techniques
        corpora
        interviews
        structure:
        unstructured interview
        semi-structured interview
        structured interviews
        observation notes
        OneNote
        Google Keep
        Evernote
        questionnaries
        Google Forms
      2. Quantitative research numerical data
        analising data
        QACDAS
        spreadsheets
        statistics suits
        tools
        corpora tools
        WordSmith Tools
        concord
        keywords
        frequency
        software used
        managing data
        SPSS
        PSPP
        MATLAB
        R
  2. following statistical methods Qualitative research
  3. conducting research based on more subjective techniques

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