scholarly journals One Size Doesn't Fit All: Contrasting Approaches to Building Communities of OER Users Amongst the Language Teaching Community

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Borthwick ◽  
Alison Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Community

scholarly journals Teacher’s and learner’s roles in autonomy-oriented foreign language teaching: a theoretical investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Dung Nguyen Tri Tran
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Global Language

The global language teaching community has largely spotlighted students’ autonomous learning for the last few decades. Through the thorough review of the existing literature on learner autonomy, this article aims to theoretically investigate this concept as well as clearly specify the roles played by teachers and students in an autonomy-oriented classroom. Autonomous learning is not at all synonymous with the absolute elimination of teacher’s role and learner-learner relationships. In fact, language instructors need to comprehend their roles in a multidimensional way, and students are supposed to be responsibly active for their own learning process as well as positively interdependent for academic cooperation.

An interview with Joseph Shaules

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Stephen Shrader
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Community

Joseph Shaules presented at JALT 2010, where he talked about intercultural communication (IC) and language teaching. Chatting after his session, we also discussed the importance of maintaining a dialogue in the language teaching community about the teaching of IC and culture. Due to the distance between Okayama and Tokyo, he was kind enough to agree to an interview with Stephen Shrader, a Visiting Instructor at Notre Dame Seishin Women’s University, through a series of email exchanges. Joseph Shaulesは2010年にJALTで、異文化間コミュニケーション(IC)と言語教育に関する発表を行った。私達はその発表後に、ICと文化の教育に関して、言語教育コミュニティーでの対話を継続する大切さを話し合った。岡山と東京は遠距離のため、メールのやり取りを通してのインタビューを行なった。

Approach to Language Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Instruction System ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
Theoretical Significance

The idea of approach to language learning has been long developed in linguistic education. The evolution of the concept has resulted in a variety of conceptualized formations acquired or approved by the language teaching community. Being a conventional methodological category, approach is nevertheless subject to equivocal interpretation. The overemphasis of the theoretical significance of the concept entails its estrangement from the procedural dimensions of an instruction system and causes the loss of explicit links connecting approach with subordinate notions of lower hierarchical levels. Further research of the concept implies the development of a well-grounded conception of an integrative type. The main issues considered include established definitions of approach and the contiguous notions of method and technique, the problem of denomination (terminological accuracy), a historical survey of approaches in use, the category of approach in the post-method era, strengths and weaknesses of the state-of-the-art accomplishments, and comprehensiveness or one-sided emphasis (what the concept lacks).

scholarly journals Target Language Corpus as an Encoding Tool: Collocations in Slovene-English Translator Training

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Primož Jurko
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
University Students ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Slow Start ◽  
Complex Syntax ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Language Corpus ◽  
Linguistic Reality

The opening part of the article discusses reasons for the lukewarm reception of language corpora in the language teaching community. The first reason is the complex syntax and rudimentary user interface of early corpora accessible in the 1990s. The second reason why corpora have witnessed a relatively slow start in language teaching is the fear of the unknown and of an unruly linguistic reality that is often at odds with rules taught at school. The practical part of the article presents a survey conducted among Slovene university students of translation. The survey focused on the effect of using a target language corpus in the course of Slovene into English translation in terms of English collocation. It found that the number of collocation errors in translation can be greatly reduced by competent use of a L2 corpus, which yields a translation with a higher level of idiomaticity.

scholarly journals Teacher Development through Podcast Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Matthew Turner ◽  
Matthew Schaeffer ◽  
Robert Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Reflective Inquiry ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Definition Of

Professional development and community engagement are important parts of maintaining commitment in language teaching. Podcasting is emerging as a form of professional development and engagement with the English language teaching community, both through the production of podcasts themselves, and through participation as listeners. Drawing upon our experiences of creating a podcast, together with an examination of other podcasts in the field, this practically oriented paper will document and identify a range of innovative ways through which engagement with podcasts, by both producers and listeners, can contribute to teacher development. This paper will highlight how podcasts can instigate opportunities for reflective inquiry, aid communities of practice, and support efforts to negotiate practical and theoretical knowledge. After providing a definition of podcasts as a media format and describing their status in the language teaching field, the paper considers professional development opportunities which may be afforded by engagement with podcasts. 言語教育におけるコミットメントを維持するには、専門的な能力開発とコミュニティへの関わりが重要な役割を果たす。ポッドキャスティングは、ポッドキャストの制作自体とリスナーとしての参加の両方を通じて、非公式で専門的な能力開発と英語教育コミュニティとの関わりの一形態として台頭してきた。本論は、過去の経験から、制作者とリスナーの両者がポッドキャストに関わることにより、教師の能力開発に貢献できるさまざまな革新的方法を記録し、明らかにする。また、ポッドキャストがいかにして内省的な探究の機会を促し、実践のコミュニティをサポートし、実践的で理論的な知識について議論や交渉する取り組みを支援できるかという点に光を当てる。メディアの一形態としてのポッドキャストの定義を示し、言語教育分野におけるポッドキャストの位置づけを説明した後、ポッドキャストに関わることで得られる可能性のある専門的な能力開発の機会について考察する。

Teaching Language Rules as Solutions to Language Problems

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil J. Connell
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Language Problem ◽  
Language Problems ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
Approach To Teaching

The teaching procedures that are commonly used with language-disordered children do not entirely match the goals that they are intended to achieve. By using a problem-solving approach to teaching language rules, the procedures and goals of language teaching become more harmonious. Such procedures allow a child to create a rule to solve a simple language problem created for the child by a clinician who understands the conditions that control the operation of a rule.

Vocabulary in Language Teaching

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Schmitt ◽  
Diane Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching
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