scholarly journals Teaching Critical Vocabulary to Filipino Heritage Language Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Jayson Parba
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
World Language ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
L1 And L2

Engaging in critical dialogues in language classrooms that draw on critical pedagogical perspectives can be challenging for learners because of gaps in communicative resources in their L1 and L2. Since critically oriented classrooms involve discussing social issues, students are expected to deploy “literate talk” to engage in critiquing society and a wide range of texts. Although recent studies have explored teachers’ and students’ engagement with critical materials and critical dialogues, research that explores language development in critical language teaching remains a concern for language teachers. In this paper, I share my experience of fostering language development, specifically the overt teaching of critical vocabulary to students of (Tagalog-based) Filipino language at a university in Hawai’i. Through a discussion of racist stereotypes targeting Filipinos and the impacts of these discourses on students’ lived experiences, the notion of “critical vocabulary” emerges as an important tool for students to articulate the presence of and to dismantle oppressive structures of power, including everyday discourses supporting the status quo. This paper defines critical vocabulary and advances its theoretical and practical contribution to critical language teaching. It also includes students’ perspectives of their language development and ends with pedagogical implications for heritage/world language teachers around the world.

Greek Language teaching by means of technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donika Koçi ◽  
Aleksandër Boboli
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Instructional Medium ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Language Classrooms

Inclusion of technology in the process of second language acquisition has always been a priority for teachers and students. This article reviews the current trends in using technology based on language instructions in Greek language teaching educational settings. Although it has been demonstrated that the use of technology as an instructional medium provides unique learning qualities, it has not been entirely embraced by Greek language teachers and professors in Albania. Furthermore, recent advancements of internet services provide remarkable possibilities for supporting a variety of learning activities in Greek language classrooms. Yet, classroom practice in using technology has not gone too far beyond simple viewing and listening to video content for eliciting discussion among Greek language students. This paper particularly highlights the role of technology in the process of improving student skills.

Standing in Dorothy’s Shoes: What Can Language Teachers Learn from Dorothy Heathcote? Part One: Where Dorothy Came From, What She Did, and How It Can Support Language Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Ben Cowburn
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Process Drama ◽  
Drama Education ◽  
Educational Drama ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Dorothy Heathcote ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many

From the 1960s onwards, Dorothy Heathcote became a highly influential figure in UK drama education. Her practice, based around unscripted, participatory dramas in which students were often guided by a teacher working ‘in role’, helped to shape the way drama is taught in schools today, particularly within the process drama approach. Influenced by a range of educational theorists and practitioners, Heathcote developed a style of educational drama that she saw as being distinct from ‘theatre’, and more concerned with experiencing drama than performing it. To this end, she developed a number of dramatic techniques, such as ‘Teacher in Role’ and ‘Mantle of the Expert’, to help students inhabit dramatic contexts and learn through the direct imagined experience of a particular place, time or problem to be solved. These techniques have much to offer language teaching, particularly when communication is the main goal. Placing students in dramatic contexts is claimed to enhance motivation and engagement and lead to more truly authentic communication than is often found in language classrooms. Using a framework based on Heathcote’s techniques, and those developed by other process drama educators, language teachers can begin to explore the many benefits drama can offer language learners.

scholarly journals Moving Beyond Self Introductions to Sharing Self Exploration and Expression

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ellen Motohashi
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
And Task

Language teachers can easily get caught up in the mechanics and outcome-based instruction of language teaching. Too often, the pedagogic relationship between the language teacher and learner are defined according to the narrowly defined discourse and task-based nature of the learning task designed for language acquisition. Pushing back the boundaries on this relationship and opening up opportunities for self-expression and self exploration through an introductory task termed Self Maps helps teachers and students to move beyond formulaic introductory exchanges and express themselves more deeply in their unique and singular individuality. 語学教師は授業の際、文の構造や学習の成果についとらわれがちである。また多くの場合、語学教師と学習者の関係は、言語習得のためにデザインされた、狭義でのディスコースやタスクに基づく学習活動の性質によって決まってしまう。この両者の間の境界を押し広げ、セルフマップという自己紹介活動を通して自己表現と自己探求の機会を与えることにより、教師と学習者は紋切り型の自己紹介を超え、個々の唯一無二の個性をより深く表現できるようになる。

Investigating Creativity in Online K-12 World Language Classrooms

2022 ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Anne Cummings Hlas ◽  
Jesselyn J. Nadolny ◽  
Christopher S. Hlas
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
World Language ◽  
Teaching Context ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The World ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
K 12

This chapter outlines creativity in the world language classroom through the results of a mixed-methods study during the COVID-19 pandemic. While there has been a growing interest in creativity within education, little has been researched related to creative and uncreative factors in the language classroom, specifically in an online teaching context. For this reason, this research study explores creativity in the online world language K-12 classroom by examining teaching artifacts self-selected by K-12 language teachers, as well as interviews with interested participants. Findings suggest that creativity is multidimensional with creative factors overlapping within artifacts. Additionally, teachers have persisted throughout the pandemic to integrate creativity in order to engage students with the content in various ways, harness student attention, and give students choice. In addition, teachers have used various technologies to provide opportunities for students to work asynchronously and synchronously.

Core Practices for World Language Teaching in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Francis John Troyan ◽  
Emre Başok ◽  
David R. Carr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
World Language ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Core Practices ◽  
Based Instruction

This chapter presents the results of a nationwide questionnaire of world language teachers in the United States (n=135) that sought to examine how they perceived the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their ability to enact certain “core practices” for world language teaching. Quantitative analysis of Likert items and qualitative analysis of open-ended questions allowed for the examination of the teacher's perceptions of their practice related to three core practices that have been identified as essential to the work of contextualized, standards-based instruction. The findings contribute to an understanding of the realities of world language teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruptions created by it, and the challenges faced in carrying out the work of world language teaching. Given these insights, suggestions are made for ways forward for the work in core practices in world language teacher education, as well as for pedagogies for practice-based world language teacher education.

scholarly journals Teaching of German in Thailand: Past, Present, and Future

MANUSYA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-80
Author(s):  
Wanna Saengaramruang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
German Language ◽  
School Students ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Teachers And Students

This paper aims firstly to give an overview of the development of German language, teaching in Thailand at both high-school and, university levels from the past up to the, present time, since German has been taught, in Thailand for more than 80 years and its development has not been studied and documented systematically or continuously. The survey and analysis of German teaching, in Thailand in this paper deal with history, teaching approaches, curricula, the development of teaching materials, the number of German language teachers, students, and schools, the attitudes of German language teachers, the expectations of and attitudes towards German teaching among high-school students, and an analysis of the decreasing number of German language teachers and students. Furthermore, this paper also showcases other research works, support organizations, and activities for German language teaching in Thailand.

Illuminating the Enactment of High-Leverage Teaching Practices in an Exemplary World Language Teaching Video Library

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 1681-1717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhai
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
World Language ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Video Library ◽  
Teaching Video

In response to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ initiative and the gap existing in identifying high-leverage teaching practices (HLTPs) in world language teaching, this study investigated and decomposed HLTPs in a video corpus of exemplary world language teachers. Specifically, this study clarified the definitions of some identified HLTPs and proposed one new practice—building connections to other content areas to promote students’ communicative competence. The proposed HLTP was broken down into component micro-practices and instructional moves illustrating the ways in which practices were enacted in particular classroom contexts. This line of research is important because only through making visible and breaking down instructional moves can novice teachers quickly grasp practices and truly learn to enact the teaching practice for themselves.

Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) in Language Teaching and Learning

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Otto
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Programmed Learning ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

Many language teachers have had sporadic exposure to applied linguistics, limited experience with programmed learning/individualized instruction, and an incomplete understanding of ways in which educational technology can significantly augment the quality of the teaching–learning process. what is the process. what is the probability that administrators, teacher educator, materials developers, teachers, and students will appreciate and accept CAI as an approach that seeks to combine these three fields meaningfully? The propose of this discussion is to examine CAI is terms of key definitions, observations, concerns, developments, and contributions that have achieved significance during the 1979–80 academic year in the area of language teaching and learning. Implications and a challenge for future research studies will also be listed.

Intercultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching: A Chinese Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 768
Author(s):  
Yinghao Li
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Chinese Perspective ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
The Status ◽  
English Culture

The paper discusses the status quo of the English culture teaching and learning in Chinese colleges. In the pedagogical level, most foreign language teachers have very vague idea of what the culture should be and what should be taught in terms of English culture. Lacking in the principled methodology in promoting students’ intercultural awareness, teachers either turn deaf to the new trend or frustrated by the communicative approach, somehow falling back to the more traditional but effective grammar-translation approach. The changing scenario of language teaching has constituted new challenges for the English educators in China. The paper proposes that more research should be channeled to the research of the paradigm of the English as an International Language (EIL) through intercultural awareness.

scholarly journals Relationship between Classroom Research, Teacher Research and Action Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Ajmal Shahim
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Teacher Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Language Classrooms

Classroom Research, Teacher Research, and Action Research are three methods that are often misunderstood. Classroom analysis is research undertaken in language classrooms that reflects on participation in the lessons; the Research’s emphasis as well as the environment in which the data is obtained characterizes it. For language teachers and the discipline as a whole, doing classroom Research may be helpful. Teacher research is classified as research performed by the Teacher; in other words, the person who performs the thesis specifies it. The iterative cyclic procedures of preparing, behaving, observing, evaluating, and replanting are used in action analysis to address challenges and develop local practice. The aim of this analysis is to evaluate the distinctions between classroom research, Teacher research, and Action research, as well as familiarity with the research method in this field. The analysis of vague information in the field of science research, particularly research in the classroom, professorial research, and practical research in language teaching, is the product and result of the research work on this subject, which has added to the richness of this scientific – research essay.  Aim- Receiving correct and necessary knowledge on these three forms of Research in the field of English language and literature, as well as a brief summary of systematic and general research on classroom research, Teacher training, and Action research in language teaching classrooms.

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