| Popis: |
Considering the development of digital platforms and social networks on the one hand, and the constant increase of students entering university, especially non-specialist learners of English, on the other hand, how are space and time combined to provide our students with places to learn? What becomes of our language center then? The paper first presents the context of the English courses for non-specialists in our university together with a few definitions of the notion of space and some issues at stake such as the need and the difficulty to link onsite and online learning and to create presence at a distance, and the opportunity to combine space and time. In order to characterize the learning places and spaces offered by our teaching team and the places and spaces used by our students, the various course types implemented at our university–distance learning, self-study, blended and enhanced classroom instruction courses–are then studied in terms of space and time, leading to the questioning of the role and place of our language center today in the general context of digitalized resources. |
