[Welcome to my LanguageQuest site].
These pages are meant to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge about WebQuests for Modern Languages. They were developed to provide information about the Dutch TalenQuest project to the international community of language teachers.

• Use the online tool of the Assessment Instrument (version 1.6) for LanguageQuest Design. Also available online in a German version.

• Download version 1.6 of the Assessment Instrument for LanguageQuest Design

• Join the 'LanguageQuest Network' , the international, professional community of users, assessors and developers of LanguageQuests.

Workshops and (Paper)presentations at conferences & online events

2008

• The LanguageQuest project has been invited to present insights and results at the 4th EduMedia Conference organised by the Salzburg Research Association.
  Download the paper 'Promoting quality in technology enhanced learning: design criteria for WebQuests in modern language education ' published in Selbstorganisiertes Lernen im Internet. Einblick in die Landschaft der webbasierten Bildungsinnovationen. (Eds) Veronika Hornung-Prähauser, Michaela Luckman and Marco Kalz. StudienVerlag. Innsbruck.

• Assessment and design of LanguageQuests is part of the Utrecht University / Hogeschool Utrecht Summercourse.
  

  
  View the Comenius course outline 'Designing activities for the Web 2.0 Language Classroom'.

  
  The 2008 edition finished on July 18.
  Watch these videofragments posted by one of the participants to get an impression of some of the activities.

• View the ECML publicity materials (flyer, folder, resources) for the outcomes of the LQuest project presented at the 2007 conference. And/or watch this interview below to hear more about the rationale of the LQuestProject.
  

  
  

2007

• View the presentation to support the LQuest workshop for the ECML 2007 conference dedicated to the completion of the ECML’s second medium-term programme,  2004-2007. To mark this occasion, the Centre organised a large-scale conference devoted to the theme of this programme: “Languages for social cohesion – language education in a multilingual and multicultural Europe”.

2006

• Consult the paper 'LanguageQuest Design and Telecollaboration' in the e-zine 'Teaching English with Technology. A Journal for Teachers of English' ISSN 1642-1027, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (August 2006)
   
• Visit the site of the 2006 Workshop 'LQuest' at the European Centre for Modern Languages and view some of the materials produced for it.
   
• Download the paper 'The TalenQuest Project(2000-2006)'

   

2005:

• Download the voice and text recordings of the online workshop on the use of design criteria for LQuest & the MICaLL project at the WebHeads in Action Convergence Conference.

• Download the occasional paper 'The ECML Workshop ‘LanguageQuest’: Internationalising the NL Project ‘TalenQuest’.'presented at: European Centre for Modern Languages:
  ‘Using New Technologies in Language Teaching’. (CONTEXT – event, June 2005)

2003:  EuroCALL 2003

• Download the paper 'Can you tell a LanguageQuest when you see one? Design criteria for TalenQuests.'
  Also published in: Proceedings of the First International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research , September 25-26, 2004 Editor: Meena Singhal Publisher: The Reading Matrix Inc., United States. ISSN 1550-8501  


• View the presentation of the paper 'Can you tell a LanguageQuest when...etc.'

2002: CALL Conference

• View the presentation of the TalenQuest Project Phase I (2000-2002)
• Read and add comments to the online document 'TalenQuests: WebQuests for Modern Languages' about the TalenQuest Project.
• Download the paper 'TalenQuests: WebQuests for Modern Languages'.

Further links:

• Visit The TalenQuest Project website (in Dutch)
• Visit  the international LanguageQuest Webportal for multi-lingual LQuests & discussion on LanguageQuest design and implementation issues in general.
• A link to the support site of my publications on:
  Virtual Worlds and Modern Language Learning Pedagogy .