Building Bridges and Creating Pathways: A Mixed Methods Study of Community-engaged Learning in Foreign Language Pedagogy

Hispania ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Lucía Osa-Melero ◽  
Vanessa Fernández ◽  
Sandra Quiñones
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy

Meaningful literacy: Writing poetry in the language classroom

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
David I. Hanauer
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Poetry Writing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Meaningful Literacy

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.

Research into Communicative Language Teaching

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamond Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Special Case

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.

scholarly journals INTEGRATING INTERCULTURAL ASPECTS IN EFL LESSONS AT SLOVAK SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(78)) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Given

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

scholarly journals Fremmedsprogspædagogikken - eksemplificeret ved 4 forskningsområder

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Birgit Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics

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.

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