Current Trends in CSCL Orchestration -- New Perspectives for Improving CSCL Orchestration in a Language Learning Environment

Abstract

Recent research shows that Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) can offer many advantages to Language Teaching and Learning such as motivate students to participate in an environment where they are asked to use their skills to communicate effectively. However, teachers have to face numerous problems and complicated issues of management when dealing with such a complex pedagogy and the technologies involved. One of the most promising solutions so far is this of "orchestration", a field where there has been a thriving research activity over the last years, yet with various open issues to be discussed and little research focused on Language Learning. This is a position paper which aims at presenting the recent developments on this field and discovering the open research questions that will lead to the proposal of a context-aware orchestration framework, which will improve the orchestration of CSCL activities in a language learning environment.