@inproceedings{noauthororeditor2013yelling, abstract = {The paper focuses on an ongoing project in which a professional community of teachers, trainees and trainers use a social platform to promote life-long learning and reflexive collaborative practices within a socio-con structivism framework of teaching and learning. The social plat form YELL/TELL (Young English Language Learners / Teen English Language Learners) offers support and tools to improve pre-service and in-service teacher training on the basis of sharing resources, commenting and reflecting on them in the spirit of Open Educational Resources and in a peer-learning/peer-teaching perspective. Thanks to the collaboration with the L3S Research Center in Hanover, the YELL/TELL community can use the social platform LearnWeb2.0 adapted to the needs of the users. The paper discussed a case study in which the platform is used by student teachers of a pre-service course for nursery and primary teachers in an Italian University (Udine). The research questions aim at investigating how the student teachers perceive themselves as participant users in a professional social community. Whereas the students show a positive and encouraging attitude towards the participation in such a community for training purposes, they also reveal difficulties in adapting to such an environment. The research is ongoing and will need wider samples and a variety of analytical tools in order to investigate further the use of social platforms and communities for teacher education. }, added-at = {2014-02-17T13:37:50.000+0100}, address = {Glasgow, UK }, author = {Bortoluzzi, Maria and Marenzi, Ivana}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2782c45496f360c9aa1dcce58c72cc018/marenzi}, booktitle = {Global Perspectives on Computer-Assisted Language Learning}, interhash = {7c76b2732d58854d45b86e1ca6599178}, intrahash = {782c45496f360c9aa1dcce58c72cc018}, keywords = {YELL learning myown}, month = {July 2013}, timestamp = {2015-03-05T16:41:29.000+0100}, title = {Yelling for peer-learning in teacher-training: A social platform for sharing practice and reflection in pre-service and in-service teacher training}, url = {http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/worldcall2013/WorldCallPapers/maria.bortoluzzi@uniud.it/ID-121-Bortoluzzi-ProocedingsWC2013.pdf}, year = 2013 }