Cooperative autonomy in online lingua franca exchanges: a case study on foreign language education in secondary schools

2016 ◽  
pp. 291-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Hoffstaedter ◽  
Kurt Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Lingua Franca

Instructional Guidance for Promoting Creativity in English as a Foreign Language Writing Classrooms: A Korean Case Study

RELC Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003368822110666
Author(s):  
Hyun-Ju Kim ◽  
Stewart Gray ◽  
Christopher Lange
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Instructional Techniques ◽  
Creative Ability ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Instructional Guidance ◽  
Language Writing

As student creativity is increasingly emphasized in English as a Foreign Language education, it is necessary to consider instructional techniques to encourage it. This study examines the effectiveness of two instructional techniques on creative writing performance of English as a Foreign Language students in a South Korean university. These techniques are variations of brainstorming known as mind mapping and SCAMPER. Survey data from the participants ( n = 39) were analysed to determine which technique resulted in higher levels of perceived creative output (essays). Additionally, a creativity rubric was developed and used to assign analytic scores to the essays to examine the relative benefits of the two techniques for high and low creative ability students. Results show that SCAMPER produced statistically significantly higher levels of perceived creative output. The essays written using SCAMPER generally received higher creativity scores than those written using mind mapping, though this difference was not statistically significant. Finally, results suggest that both techniques may help to narrow the performance gap between high and low creative ability students.

Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Curricula

2020 ◽  
pp. 958-980
Author(s):  
Linda van der Kroon ◽  
Kristi Jauregi ◽  
Jan D. ten Thije
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Collaborative Construction ◽  
Adequate Understanding

The development of intercultural communicative competence is increasingly important in this globalised and highly digitalised world. This implies the adequate understanding of otherness, which entails a myriad of complex cognitive competences, skills and behaviour. The TILA project aims to study how the use of digital communication means in foreign language education can contribute to the development of intercultural understanding when communicating with peers across borders. Understanding is the result of a collaborative construction of shared knowledge, which can be supported through the use of meta-communicative devices (MCDs) (). This case study investigates how pupils used communication strategies during video communication sessions to achieve intercultural understanding. Results reveal that task-based telecollaboration sessions offer learners the opportunity to achieve mutual understanding by utilizing a variety of meta-communicative devices that help the learners to compare their cultures in relation to time, space and habits, verify meaning and clarify utterances.

scholarly journals How to Help the Iranian Students of First Grade of Secondary Schools with their Problems of English as a Foreign Language

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Elham Ghaderi Doust
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Education ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Instructional Content ◽  
Iranian Students

Apparently, English is globally used as the most fundamental communication medium. Regarding the objectives of Foreign Language Education in Iran Curriculum, an Iranian educated must be capable of expressing his opinions and viewpoints as well as accurately utilizing the foreign sources and satisfying his demands. Also, he must understand English speeches produced by native English speakers. With perspectives on these objectives, experts involved in English Education sphere design and write Educational English books and teachers have been instructing these books for ages. Indeed we must raise this question: Why Iranian students are such evasive learners and why does almost nobody acquire English in an applicable way in Iranian schools? It is evident that most students of first grade of secondary schools are confronted with certain problems following as:Many students are slightly familiar with English.They often recognize English as a difficult subject to study.Also, they believe that they will not achieve a genuine progress in English.Many students show a lack of self-confidence and inferiority complex.Comparing themselves with the students in the upper grades, they feel that they cannot master English.So, certain efforts must be channeled into resolving these problems, in particular, the ways the students deal with their English books are to be changed and so are the methodologies in teaching. These may become perfectly practicable by utilizing instructional aides, preserving the students' fondness for their English courses, and organizing the instructional content from the simple to complex, as well as discussing with experts, parents, educational managers, and students. The objectives of this study are to shift students' perspectives upon English and support them through their learning English; consequently they will progress satisfactorily at present and in the future.

scholarly journals Fighting covert discrimination by concept learning. A study of the pedagogical value of one Pestalozzi training resource in Norway.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Langseth
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Concept Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teacher Students

This article discusses approaches to teaching democratic citizenship in English and foreign language education (FLE) in Norway. The article is based on a training resource developed within the Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme (Huber Mompoint-Gaillard, 2011; Huber, 2012). The aim of the training resource is to develop an understanding of how to teach covert discrimination. The objective is to understand to what extent conceptual understanding and collaborative learning can empower students’ democratic citizenship and contribute to fighting discrimination, bullying violence, racism, extremism, xenophobia and intolerance in society. Qualitative data was gathered during one seminar for ten teacher students held at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science in November 2013. The case study shows that the Pestalozzi approach to Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education has the potential to deepen Norwegian teacher students’ understanding of covert discrimination and inspire them to include democratic citizenship in their foreign language teaching. One important result is that concept learning, in combination with collaborative learning, strengthens the awareness of covert discrimination and prepares the ground for fighting covert discrimination in the foreign language classroom.

scholarly journals GERMAN EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF UKRAINE: ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE HISTORICALLY

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Natalia Beilis
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
National Development ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
German Language ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
German Education

The article focuses on the fact that the German language learning by pupils in secondary schools of Ukraine depends on creating the appropriate objective conditions of reforming the entire education system and the humanization of the educational process, and taking into account patterns of theory and practice development in this area in the second half of the XX – XXI century.In the article the urgency of modernization of modern content and methods of studying the German language by pupils of secondary schools of Ukraine, made historical – pedagogical analysis of German education in the second half of the XX – XXI century.Particular attention is paid to aspects of leading scientific discourses in the context of national development policy of the German language learning in schools of Ukraine in measurements of its accession to the common European educational space.Article updated those tasks whose solution it entirety provides: 1) upgrading the content of German education at an angle to ensure his child centrism, culture centrism, fundamental and personal-developmental orientation; 2) mobility of updating curricula, textbooks and teaching aids, by raising the level of motivation of teachers, representatives of various government agencies of Ukraine, establishing constructive cooperation between them; 3) improvement in the status of Ukraine in a sphere of German-language education and foreign language education in general (necessary aspects of creating multilingual educational environment).It is emphasized the need for Ukraine of the positive experience in the past in order to develop foreign language education space. This current state of quality of the German language learning depends on identifying further ways of development strategies that are based on national educational traditions and values, experience learning the German language acquired in the process of learning German in the schools in Ukraine. Innovative approaches of content and methodology of the study of German by pupils at schools of Ukraine has a strategic nature and consistent with the national development strategy of foreign language education.The necessity of solving the actual problems posed present to the German- education of pupils in secondary schools in Ukraine is impossible without understanding key trends of research in this area, adequate and interested attitude to the industry by professionals and especially representatives of various government agencies of Ukraine with setting up constructive cooperation between them, which is a prerequisite for the formation of social consciousness of pupils and school leavers with appropriate attitude to the prospects of the German language.Conclusions regarding changes of German national policy in the context of its compliance with the European promotion of Ukraine, development of strategies of the German language learning in secondary schools of Ukraine are viewed in the article.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document