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Digital citizenship through language education

How to help learners become digital citizens and develop their capacity to use digital media critically, creatively and autonomously in several languages

E-lang citizen resources provide a pedagogical framework for the development of digital citizenship and "real-life tasks". These tasks are a motivating way of developing language skills and digital citizenship by enabling learners to (inter)act in authentic situations. The tasks encourage learners to act as citizens and to reflect critically on their experience.
The materials on this website are designed to help language learners become responsible citizens. The website offers language teachers and language teacher educators a 'portrait' of citizens who use languages and digital technology, a didactic framework for integrating digital citizenship education into language education and a bank of digital tasks that illustrate how to implement the framework.

Portrait of language and digital technology users

A meta-analysis of recent literature paints a picture of citizens who use languages and digital technology. It provides an insight into the objectives of education which is aimed at developing citizens capable of using digital technology in a competent, informed, safe, responsible, ethical and critical manner. 

Download the Portrait: English, French

Didactic approach

The ‘portrait’ of citizens who are users of languages and digital technology enables one to specify the objectives of language education that is integrated with education for digital citizenship. The didactic framework defines a socio-interactional approach to this integration. 

Download the teaching framework: English, French

Bank of digital tasks sheets

Thirty three real-world and reflective tasks are available. The tasks all  conform to a didactic framework that promotes a socio-interactional approach and goes beyond the usual types of tasks by including real-life tasks. These tasks, which are designed to be carried out on participatory online  platforms, enable  learners to experience both authentic (inter)actions and digital citizenship. Alongside these tasks, reflective activities encourage learners to think about online practices and, in particular, their own use of digital technology. The tasks can be adapted to suit the context in which they are to be used and include examples of how to implement the approach defined in the didactic framework. 

Consult the database

www.ecml.at/elangcitizen

ID: 6
Name: Digital citizenship through language education
Shortcut: www.ecml.at/elangcitizen
FlyerUrl: https://www.ecml.at/Portals/1/6MTP/documents/project-results-6mtp-EN.pdf
Type: FREN
Year: 2023
Authors: Christian OLLIVIER, Catherine JEANNEAU, Teija NATRI, Elke HÖFLER, Ulrike SZIGETI, Catherine CAWS, Marie-Josée HAMEL
En: True
Fr: False
De: False

Resources

a profile of the “digital citizen” as a user of languages and digital tools and resources
a pedagogical framework for the development of digital citizenship in the context of language teaching and learning
a database of concrete and practical learning activities

Target groups

  • language teachers
  • language teacher educators
  • decision-makers

Project team

Christian OLLIVIER
Coordinator
France

Catherine JEANNEAU
Ireland
Teija NATRI
Finland
Elke HÖFLER
Austria
Ulrike SZIGETI
Austria

Associate partners: Catherine G. CAWS (Canada), Marie-Josée HAMEL (Canada).

To the project pages

Bibliography

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These are the results from a project of the European Centre for Modern Languages within its "Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences" programme 2020-2023.