Crowdsourcing for language learning in Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of North Macedonia and Poland

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2021-06-01

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Miloshevska, Lina
Džanić, Nihada Delibegović
Hatipoğlu, Çiler
Gajek, Elżbieta

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© 2021 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.Online crowdsourcing sites/platforms have become popular in recent years, and the first aim of this study is to uncover what crowdsourcing resources language learners in Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia and Poland know about and use. The other two goals of the study are to uncover what crowdsourcing games or websites the students in the studied countries utilise as in- or/and outside-class activities, how enjoyable they find them and whether or not students contribute to the further development of those crowdsourcing resources. The data for the study were collected using a cross-culturally appropriate online questionnaire in English explicitly designed for this study. The appropriateness of the questionnaire was tested prior to its distributions in the pilot phase and comprised two parts. Section one gathered information about the employment of the crowdsourcing sites, tools, and games, while section two helped compile a detailed picture of the participants’ background. The data were analysed both qualitatively and quantitively, keeping in mind country and context-specific variables. The results show that there are both intriguing similarities and differences in the ways informants in the examined countries perceive, employ, evaluate and contribute to the available crowdsourcing resources when learning foreign languages. Therefore, the findings might provide insights for language teachers planning to incorporate crowdsourcing sites and crowdsourced activities in their classes as well as for platform/game creators aiming to develop resources with cross-cultural usefulness and validity.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Contributing to crowdsourcing tools, Crowdsourcing sites/tools/games, In- and outside class foreign language learning, Poland, Republic of North Macedonia, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99159

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NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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L. Miloshevska, N. D. Džanić, Ç. Hatipoğlu, and E. Gajek, “Crowdsourcing for language learning in Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of North Macedonia and Poland,” NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, vol. 9, no. 16, pp. 106–121, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85117291186&origin=inward.