Navigating the Shift from Language Instructor to Instructional Designer: How Foreign Language Pedagogy Can Adapt in the Age of E-Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 415-423
Author(s):  
Gianluca Pedrotti ◽  
Zachary Sporn ◽  
Laura Capitani
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
David I. Hanauer

This paper develops the concept of meaningful literacy and offers a classroom methodology – poetry writing – that manifests this approach to ESL/EFL literacy instruction. The paper is divided into three sections. The first deals with the concept of meaningful literacy learning in second and foreign language pedagogy; the second summarizes empirical evidence that characterizes second language (L2) poetry writing; and the third describes the practical aspects of teaching poetry writing. This approach is presented as a way of humanizing the second and foreign language classroom by refocusing on the individual language learner as the center of the learning process.


1987 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamond Mitchell

The problems of research into communicative language teaching are a special case of the problems facing research into any kind of foreign language pedagogy. They also overlap to a considerable degree with those facing any research in teaching, regardless of subject matter. This article reviews a range of research approaches which have been, or might be, used in researching various dimensions of communicative language teaching. It draws on the general literature on educational research methods to some extent, and on the general language pedagogy research literature, as well as on the growing body of research literature on communicative language teaching. This is not an exhaustive survey, however; instead, a limited number of studies are chosen for discussion so as to exemplify the major research problems and approaches.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(78)) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová

Over the last decades the importance of incorporating intercultural aspects in FL education has often been emphasized, especially by intercultural communication as well as foreign language pedagogy scholars. Yet the everyday teaching practice in Slovakia does not always reflect this viewpoint, as it has been revealed due to some research in the field.  The aim of the paper was to summarize the results of the observations carried out at secondary schools in Slovakia in order to map which intercultural aspects were developed suitably and sufficiently in the observed EFL lessons. The investigation showed that EFL courses at Slovak secondary schools tend to disregard the must of integrating cultural aspects in FL education. One of the reasons can be the lack of further education for in-service teachers in the given field; hence, the paper also includes some proposals for teacher development in terms of developing intercultural competences in FL courses


Author(s):  
Birgit Henriksen

The paper gives a brief introduction to Foreign Language Pedagogy. In order to show the wide scope in research interests and methodology within this field of research 4 specific areas of study are outlined: 1) cross-cultural pragmatics 2) lexical inferencing strategies 3) text quality in written texts and 4) classroom research within the action research paradigm. For each of the fields of study the research design, the results and possible pedagogical implications are outlined. Finally, the implications of the results in relation to the teaching of Greenlandic in secondary education in Greenland are discussed.


2019 ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Joanna Puppel ◽  
Stanisław Puppel

We emphasize that ‘dialogic space’ is a precondition to the presence and maintenance of collective culture whose most conspicuous dimension is dialogic culture. We assume that dialogic culture constitutes the fullest dimension of humanity, and we highlight its role in a number of assumptions (1-8). Next, dialogic culture in terms of its properties is briefly discussed. We further assume that dialogic space in its verbal-non-verbal tanglements is of central significance in foreign language pedagogy and as such it should be present in foreign teaching/learning programs in order to help promote the positively-charged dialogue-oriented society of practice and at the same time exclude the proliferation of negatively-charged communications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-443
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Michelan de Azevedo ◽  
Eduardo Lopes Piris

ABSTRACT This study addresses the concept of the tradition of foreign language teaching and learning in an attempt to consider the role of the Brazilian Portuguese as a Foreign Language (BPFL) textbook within this tradition. Therefore, based on Bornheim (1987), but also resorting to Titone (1968), Kelly (1969), Leffa (2012), and Dickey (2012), we present our concept of the tradition of foreign language teaching and learning. Thereafter, according to Foucault (1971), we analyze a BPFL textbook published in 1966 and another in 2011, focusing on activities proposed by the textbooks. Lastly, our reflection suggests that both textbooks, as an element of this tradition, turn teachers and students into domesticated subjects of the foreign language pedagogy discourse, and they do not favor language teaching practices, but rather the mechanical repetition of grammatical exercises.


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