Réseaux sociaux et apprentissage des langues – Spécificités et rôles de l'utilisateur

Abstract

This article discusses the roles which users of collaborative language learning sites seem to play: resource user, speaker, resource sharer, resource accumulator (librarian), administrator, interaction promoter and resource evaluator. A study focusing on the implementation of the five web 2.0-based principles in various Learning Management Systems (LMS) dedicated to online language learning highlighted these roles. In this article, those five principles characterizing social networking will be introduced through the example of Palabea. These roles will then be described. Our analysis will eventually lead to a discussion on the roles of LMS in second language teaching and learning practices.

Keywords

• help
• social media