Dual-Language Teachers’ Use of Technology to Facilitate Mathematical Discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Adria Patthoff ◽  
Jolene Castillo ◽  
Alejandra Treviño
Author(s):  
Carmen Santamaría-García

Technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) is moving ahead from the use of technology in language labs to the possibilities offered by technology in setting up new ways of communication and interactivity. The effectiveness of teaching seems to depend more on teachers' ability to motivate students by connecting to their interests and catering for different intelligences. Teachers' creativity and empathy with them will constitute essential skills for the design of tasks and projects that connect with digital native students' interests. Consideration of cultural aspects will be of essential importance in our globalized world, as learning a language must always take into account cultural variables. The objective of this chapter is to review the challenges that technology and interculturality pose to foreign language teachers and note some of the possible solutions that may facilitate efficient teaching. Politeness theory will be discussed as a theoretical framework providing resources for building social identity and doing relational work with different cultures.


2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Sofia Cementina

Innovations in digital technologies have the potential to alter how people think, learn, communicate, and collaborate with others. Whereas changes in technology and its affordances have transformed social contexts and learning environments, instructors’ beliefs about digital technologies and pedagogy can affect technology integration behaviours and language teaching practices. This study used a two-phase approach to gain insights into teachers’ digital mindsets and their personal and professional use of technology. In total, 50 teachers were surveyed regarding their technological beliefs and practices, and, among them, three second language teachers were selected and interviewed. Results illustrate that participants recognized and embraced the affordances of digital technologies in their own lives, yet they failed to see their significance in language teaching and learning. Their attitudes and intentions associated with technology uses were compartmentalized; while teachers’ everyday practices were more digital and socially mediated, they struggled to adopt more technology-based teaching practices. Participants identified the lack of training in technology integration in language teaching hindered their use of digital resources, but findings indicate that the teachers’ reluctance to explore emerging technologies and their own technological beliefs and experiences influenced their mindset and teaching practices. Implications and recommendations for second language instruction are discussed. Les innovations de la technologie numérique ont le potentiel de modifier nos manières de penser, d’apprendre, de communiquer et de collaborer. Or, même si l’évolution technologique et ses affordances, ou potentialités, ont transformé les contextes sociaux et les milieux d’apprentissage, les croyances des professeurs concernant les technologies et la pédagogie numériques peuvent néanmoins influer sur les comportements relatifs à l’intégration des technologies aux pratiques liées à l’enseignement des langues. La présente étude est le compte rendu d’une approche en deux étapes adoptée afin de permettre de mieux comprendre la mentalité des professeurs face au numérique ainsi que leurs utilisations personnelles et professionnelles de la technologie. En tout, 50 professeurs ont fait l’objet d’un sondage concernant leurs croyances et leurs pratiques technologiques, y compris trois professeurs de langue seconde qui ont été sélectionnés pour une entrevue. Les résultats démontrent que même s’ils reconnaissent et recourent aux affordances des technologies numériques dans leur vie personnelle, les participantes et participants n’en reconnaissent point l’importance pour l’enseignement et l’apprentissage des langues. Leurs attitudes et intentions en lien avec les utilisations de la technologie étaient compartimentées : même si leurs pratiques quotidiennes étaient plus numériques et paissaient davantage par les médias sociaux, les professeurs avaient du mal à adopter des pratiques pédagogiques davantage fondées sur la technologie. Les participantes et participants ont précisé que le manque de formations dans le domaine de l’intégration de la technologie dans l’enseignement des langues les empêchait d’utiliser les ressources numériques, mais les constatations de l’enquête indiquent toutefois que leur répugnance à explorer les nouvelles technologies ainsi que leurs croyances et expériences technologiques personnelles avaient une influence sur leur mentalité et leurs pratiques pédagogiques. L’étude renferme une discussion des implications de cet état de fait et offre des recommandations pour l’enseignement d’une langue seconde.


2013 ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Moira Hobbs ◽  
Yvonne Hynson

In the current educational climate in the world today, there is an increasing use of technology and social media for learning, by both students and language teachers. With this in mind, and to meet the perceived associated need for students to have increasing abilities and skills to study autonomously and independently, a new e-learning platform (Moodle) was introduced to Unitec, a tertiary institution in Auckland, New Zealand. This paper describes how the Moodle site has been developed since inception and how it is used within the Department of Language Studies to facilitate both English as an Additional Language (EAL) for online support and for the development of autonomy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Juan A. Freire ◽  
Verónica E. Valdez

James Banks’s framework for determining the levels of integration of multicultural content in teachers’ pedagogy has long been a tool used by researchers worldwide. This article introduces the Holistic Analysis of Multicultural Teaching Framework that rethinks Banks’s framework to allow research analysis to capture the hybrid and fluid aspects of teachers’ multicultural practices as well as the pauses in their practices over time. Data from a study on U.S. dual language teachers’ classroom implementation of multicultural practices serves to illustrate the utility of the Holistic Analysis framework in analyzing teachers’ multicultural practices. Implications for teacher educators and researchers are discussed. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Peter Joseph Ward

Reflective video-recording in language-learning classes is engaging, effective and fun. Practices and techniques are highly transferable to other subject areas. In developing speaking competence and confidence, language teachers are constantly assessing and balancing the need to address either accuracy and/or fluency.   Video-recording in a supportive, sensitive environment with learners and teachers who know each other well can capture spoken language and visual communication and allow it to be worked on, like words on paper, as a text for analysis, discussion and feedback in a variety of ways, both top-down and bottom-up. Accuracy can be addressed without affecting fluency as the sample of speech is recorded, not live.   The use of video-recording and play-back lends itself particularly well to a wide range of language-learning approaches and methodologies, including Community Language Learning (CLL), Dogme ELT, task-based learning (TBL) and others, under the umbrella of a communicative approach.   Classes using video-recording are spontaneous and adaptive, very learner-centred and allow for responsive and sensitive adjustment to students’ needs, strengths and areas for improvement as well as cultural and linguistic considerations.   This case study will include edited video extracts of a video of a mock speaking test being analysed by a class of learners who are all engaged in practising for this this style of test. They share feedback in a supportive, affirming atmosphere. There is a high level of engagement and interaction.   The video of this class, in turn, is shown to a group of teachers, who use it as a text to workshop ideas for delivering feedback and generating learner-led discussion for meaningful alternative authentic self-assessment. The teachers also discuss the use of technology-enhanced learning in regard to this use of video.   Another layer of video shows a professional development session with a wider body of teachers leading into discussion on using video in professional development of teachers and teacher-trainers.   This case-study session will involve explanation of the methodology and pragmatics of this simple way of using video, recorded with students’ and teachers’ phones in class to enhance reflective learning with a range of clips of the various layers.    


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