Language teachers and crowdsourcing: Insights from a cross-European survey

Holdt, Špela Arhar ; Zviel-Girshin, Rina ; Gajek, Elżbieta ; Durán-Muñoz, Isabel ; Bago, Petra ; Fort, Karën ; Hatipoglu, Ciler ; Kasperavičienė, Ramunė ; Koeva, Svetla ; Konjik, Ivana Lazić ; Miloshevska, Lina ; Ordulj, Antonia ; Rodosthenous, Christos ; Volodina, Elena ; Weber, Tassja ; Zanasi, Lorenzo

DOI:	https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.46.1.1
URL:	https://hrcak.srce.hr/243065
Weitere URL:	https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...
Dokumenttyp:	Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:	Rasprave : časopis Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
Band/Volume:	46
Heft/Issue:	1
Seitenbereich:	1-28
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Zagreb ; Frankfurt a.M.
Verlag:	Institut ; Goethe-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
ISSN:	1331-6745 , 1849-0379
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Philosophische Fakultät > Germanistische Linguistik (Storrer 2014-2023)
Fachgebiet:	370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Abstract:	The paper presents a cross-European survey on teachers and crowdsourcing. The survey examines how familiar language teachers are with the concept of crowdsourcing and addresses their attitude towards including crowdsourcing into language teaching activities. The survey was administrated via an online questionnaire and collected volunteers’ data on: (a) teachers’ experience with organizing crowdsourcing activities for students/pupils, (b) the development of crowdsourced resources and materials as well as (c) teachers’ motivation for participating in or employing crowdsourcing activities. The questionnaire was disseminated in over 30 European countries. The final sample comprises 1129 language teachers aged 20 to 65, mostly working at institutions of tertiary education. The data indicates that many participants are not familiar with the concept of crowdsourcing resulting in a low rate of crowdsourcing activities in the classroom. However, a high percentage of responding teachers is potentially willing to crowdsource teaching materials for the language(s) they teach. They are particularly willing to collaborate with other teachers in the creation of interactive digital learning materials, and to select, edit, and share language examples for exercises or tests. Since the inclusion of crowdsourcing activities in language teaching is still in its initial stage, steps for further research are highlighted.