Marie Christine Appel

Imatge identificativa

Professor Agregat Arts and Humanities Department

Marie Christine Appel's R&I work focuses on online language teaching and learning. Her main research interests are oral interaction online, learning in tandem, gamification and learner engagement. She is a member of the realTIC-UOC research group.

Expert in::

  • teaching innovation
  • new technology adoption
  • second language acquisition
  • online collaborative learning
  • language learning
  • eLearning
  • teacher professional development
  • Technopedagogical design
  • innovative tools for eLearning
  • higher education
  • language teaching
  • gamification, game
  • applied linguistics
Research group
realTIC-UOC
Area
Arts and Humanities
Area of specialization
Education and ICT, Languages and cultures,
Membership Center
Faculties
UNESCO codes:
531204, 630105, 610402, 580302, 58, 570507, 570111, 5701
Collaborates with
e-Learn Center

ODS:

  • 4 - Quality education

My profile

The rise of technologies such as videoconferencing and VoIP is facilitating synchronous and multimodal online communication (both text and voice). My research interests include: 

a) The transferability and validity of task-based language learning focusing on the acquisition of oral skills in an online environment for both native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS), and for NNS-NNS interactions. 

b) The transmission of feedback on oral interactions by the teacher or classmates, including the use of videos generated by the user for this purpose. 

c) The inclusion of oral interaction in teaching and learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs).

 

  • 2021 Prize for the best research article of 2021 published in the scientific journal ReCALL. (Appel, C. &Pujolà, J.T. (2021). Designing speaking interaction in LMOOCs: An eTandem approach. ReCALL, 33 (2), 161-176.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0958344021000045)
  • 2014 Learning Impact Awards, Silver Medal, IMS Global LearningConsortium, SpeakApps Project.
  • 2014 Award for the best e-Learning presentation, I International UOC ResearchSymposium.
  • 2013 URV Social Council Award for Teaching Quality 2013 for the teaching project: The use of Whatsapp to increase motivation in reading texts in English.
  • 2012 Best teaching innovation project 2012. (SpeakApps) UOC vice-rectorate for research and innovation.
  • 2001, Albert College Research Fellowship Award, 2001. Dublin City University