Language Skills Development in E-learning Language Courses

This paper follows the WCETR 2013 paper and aims to describe new findings in ongoing research project dealing with possibilities of language skills development within the framework of mastering communicative competence in e-learning language courses. The aim of the research is to discover whether some combinations of technological types of exercises used within distance education in a virtual learning environment and types of exercises used in foreign language teaching methodology are more suitable to practise and reinforce three receptive and productive language skills; reading comprehension, listening comprehension and writing. More precisely, the main focus of the research is to identify the most and least suitable combinations of the most frequently used technological types of exercises and those exercises of foreign language teaching methodologies that are used to practice and reinforce each of the above mentioned three language skills. The data processed so far have confirmed the effect on the practice of language skills in e-learning language courses by combining various types of technological exercises used in e-learning applications with techniques used in foreign language teaching methodology. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.