You dreamed about it, Richard Byrne made it!

Many of us are willing to create videos for language class projects, but until recently, it always seemed difficult to handle with all the aspects of this type of project: where can free public access images and sounds be found? How to deal with mixing tools? Where can tools for screen-casting be found?  The whole process seemed to require many different skills reserved to the “happy few” teachers who had contacts in the field of media.

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Can autonomous language learning foster language learning motivation? The title of this post, quoted from the case study “The implementation of EPOS, a Web-Based Learning-Platform for the ELC-ELP and other Validated ELP-Version within a Tutorial Programme in Combination with Language Courses at the University of Bremen” written by Bärbel Kühn, Astrid Buschmann-Göbels and Rüdiger Fehse, is an affirmative answer to the initial question.

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