ENACT is a free web app https://enacteuropa.com/ developed at Newcastle University, co-funded by the European Commission. Released in February 2021, the app enables people to learn aspects of foreign languages while performing a meaningful real-world task which enables them to experience the culture of the foreign language. With the ENACT interactive player, you can learn a foreign language through the foreign culture by carrying out a cultural activity. There are 128 existing activities for 24 languages and cultures from 29 countries.

However, this workshop shows you how to use the ENACT Author to create your own favourite cultural activity in your own language to add to the ENACT system, so that anyone else round the world can use it to learn your language and culture.

The materials on the ENACT app are crowd-sourced in that anyone anywhere in the world can upload materials in their own language and culture to tell the rest of the world about them. Therefore, communities worldwide are able to participate in app development by adding materials, promoting cross-cultural understanding.

The first part of the workshop involves participants very briefly trying out the ENACT app interactive player, carrying out a hands-on cultural activity in a foreign language and reflecting on the experience.

In the second stage of the workshop, participants learn how to use the CREATE authoring system. We explain the procedures involved and participants can start the process of producing materials for their own favourite language and cultural activity.

We also evaluate the extent to which the apps succeed in the aim of giving all languages and cultures an equal voice and a universal Infrastructure for learning language through culture.

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Abstract Summary
ENACT is a free web app https://enacteuropa.com/ which enables people to learn aspects of foreign languages while performing a meaningful real-world task which enables them to experience the culture of the foreign language. There are 128 existing activities for 24 languages and cultures from 29 countries. However, this workshop shows you how to use the ENACT Author to create your own favourite cultural activity in your own language to add to the crowd-sourced ENACT system, so that anyone else round the world can use it to learn your language and culture. Workshop participants learn how to use the CREATE authoring system. We explain the procedures involved and participants can start the process of producing materials for their own favourite language and cultural activity. We also evaluate the extent to which the apps succeed in the aim of giving all languages and cultures an equal voice and a universal infrastructure for learning language through culture.

Authors:
Paul Seedhouse, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Muge Satar, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

About the Presenter(s)
Professor Paul Seedhouse is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Newcastle University in United Kingdom

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