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2014 CALL Conference
LINGUAPOLIS
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Virginia Westwood
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
admin@proteatextware.com
Using Design-Based Research for Qualitative Investigation of CALL
in an Oral Indigenous Language
Bio data
Virginia Westwood
is a PhD student at Murdoch University in Western Australia. With
her partner Heather Kaufmann, she established Protea Textware in 1994 to develop
interactive multimedia language, literacy and numeracy programs. Since 1994, Virginia
has been director of design and programming in the company which has produced many
internationally successful English CALL programs. Following an invitation in 2009 from
an Aboriginal Language Centre to create similar CALL for their language, Virginia lived
and worked in the Kimberley for 2 years. Now relocated in Melbourne, Virginia visits
remote areas of Australia to work on CALL programs with other language communities.
Abstract
This presentation describes an instance of a design-based research (DBR) approach used
in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) research. The research investigates a
potentially replicable design process for a CALL package for oral Indigenous languages
(IL). CALL has been researched and developed principally for the more commonly
spoken languages (CSL). The design process for the development of CALL programs has
arisen in CSL environments. CSL have been written, analysed, described and
documented over hundreds of years, in contrast to many IL. Few attempts have been
made to develop CALL for Indigenous languages, and the success rate is not high. The
wider study to investigate how CALL could be responsive to IL started from a critical
standpoint in partnership with the Nyikina community in the remote northwest of
Western Australia. Within this, DBR was chosen as a research approach to work up a
model process for the design and development of a CALL program as it supports both
Western and Indigenous situated methodologies. DBR is a participatory approach and
calls for collaborative cycles of iteration through (sometimes concurrent) phases of
exploration, development, implementation and reflection and results in a practical
solution and theory, or Design Principles, which can be tested in replication of the
research. This approach afforded continuous data collection and interpretation through a
critical lens. Challenges arose both as a result of investigating the design and
development of CALL in an IL, and as a result of using DBR in the investigation. The
major challenges, which are broadly methodological and epistemological, and their
impacts on the course and outcomes of the research, are discussed in this paper.
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