Francisca Maria Ivone

Francisca Maria Ivone - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2023

  Featured Session

Technology-Enhanced Collaboration: Possibilities and Challenges in Language Teaching and Learning 

Over the years, language teachers have tried to design diverse and innovative collaborative language learning activities around readily available technology in the hopes that it will make language learning more meaningful, fun, and efficient. Nevertheless, technology is known to facilitate and sometimes hinder various forms of collaboration among language learners in face-to-face, blended, and online learning contexts due to several technical and non-technical reasons. Moreover, language learners’ lack of knowledge and skills to work collaboratively with others often leads to “unsuccessful” collaboration. This presentation explores some of the opportunities and challenges of employing technology-enhanced collaboration and emphasizes the importance of introducing language learners to the basic principles of collaborative learning that are often taken for granted. Several examples of collaborative face-to-face and online language learning activities are used to illustrate the intricacies of collaborative language learning design and highlight some lessons learned from the language classrooms. 

  Invited Second Session

Extensive Listening and Viewing in Listening Courses

Extensive Listening and Viewing, unlike the more established extensive reading approach, is still in its infancy but has gained popularity in the last decade. Yet, many continue to mix up “extensive listening” with “extended listening” and “intensive listening,” and believe that viewing and reading should not be included in foreign/second language listening activities. A reformation is necessary to make language teachers and learners aware that improving learners’ proficiency in the target language requires more than a couple of hours of intensive listening classes. This presentation will first define extensive listening and viewing and explain why they are important. It will then show how extensive listening and viewing are integrated into intensive listening courses taught at a university’s English Department in Indonesia, making students not only more aware of what they need to listen to and the techniques they can use to suit their needs and listening style, but also more motivated and confident in performing listening activities. 

  Biosketch

Francisca Maria Ivone is an associate professor at Universitas Negeri Malang’s Department of English. She earned a BA in ELT from the same university before continuing to the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She received an MA and a PhD in applied linguistics from this university. She conducts and publishes research in the fields of ELT, technology-enhanced language learning, extensive listening and viewing, extensive reading, learning autonomy, and collaborative learning. During her language learning and teaching years, she used and benefited from extensive reading, listening, and viewing, as well as the use of technology in language teaching and learning. Today, she teaches technology in ELT and applied linguistics classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, she teaches ER courses and incorporates ER, EL, and EV programs into the language skill courses that she teaches.

Select Sites
Francisca Maria Ivone Interview with The English Connection (March 2023; PDF)
Francisca Maria Ivone: Researchgate 
Francisca Maria Ivone: Curriculum Vitae 

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