Curriculum Design for Young Learners of Japanese as a Heritage Language

2017 ◽  
pp. 237-270
Author(s):  
Masako O. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Young Learners

Pedagogical Theories and Approaches to Teach Young Learners of Japanese as a Heritage Language

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82
Author(s):  
Masako Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Heritage Language Schools ◽  
Language Schools

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the development of curricula for Japanese heritage language schools. Although these schools provide most of the Japanese heritage language (JHL) instruction available to elementary and secondary school pupils, they have received little attention or support from the academic community. Specifically, they are in need research-based knowledge as well as models for teaching methodology, developing curricula and instructional materials, and providing teacher training. This paper examines recent theories and approaches in the fields of heritage language education, bilingualism, and instruction that is developmentally appropriate to young learners. The paper then proposes a process of curriculum design that integrates and applies these theories and approaches. The curriculum proposed here could also be used in heritage language schools for other languages.

scholarly journals Supplementary speaking materials using task based language teaching for primary school in Yogyakarta context

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Retno Baskoro Wulan
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking

This research is aimed to develop supplementary speaking materials for fifth grade students. Belonging to educational research and development (R&D), this research employed a simplified six steps of Borg and Gall’s model (1983). The six steps are as follow (1) conducting needs analysis, (2) constructing course grid, (3) developing course grid based on the combination of the 2006 Curriculum (KTSP) and the result of the needs analysis for young learners. The English speaking material was designed based on the principles of Language Curriculum Design proposed by Nation & Macalister (2010) and task-based language teaching proposed by Willis (2003) (4) the tryout of the course grid to the fifth grade students at SD Kanisius Ganjuran Bantul, (5) evaluation and revision of course grid by the experts, and (6) final product. The finding shows that the product relies much on pertaining KD of the 2006 Curriculum and the teacher expected that the students need to improve speaking skill since they have opportunity to speak English. English speaking materials are in line with student’s wants who are young learners. The strengths of this product help students to improve their speaking skill especially the vocabularies, the language function used in spoken language. The tasks can fascinate the students on teaching and learning process of English lesson.

THE MACARTHUR-BATES COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORIES AS A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE LEXICON OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (101) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
MARINA B. ELISEEVA
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
University Websites ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Rfbr Grant ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Macarthur Communicative Development Inventory ◽  
Children's Speech

The article analyzes the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) as a means of research and diagnostics of children's speech in different languages. It takes into account the data from Stanford University websites, which deal with findings resulted from the analysis of completed questionnaires. The sites provide abundant information concerning adaptations of this tool for more than 100 languages and a database of children's passive and active lexicons for 29 languages (including Russian). Moreover, on the basis of 23 languages, they show unique and universal character of word usage in the speech of young learners studying several different languages simultaneously. This article also provides research findings on the bilingual children’s early vocabulary (with Russian as the Heritage language) under the RFBR grant No. 19-012-00293.

Students as Partners in Architectural Design Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
Sucharita Srirangam ◽  
TamilSalvi Mari ◽  
Sujatavani Gunasagaran ◽  
Foong Peng Veronica Ng
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Teaching Pedagogy ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The Core ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Architectural Design Education

Architectural design study is subjective. In order to aid a new pedagogy that welcomes the diversity of design approaches, the research project funded by Taylor's University incorporates teacher-learner partnerships in curriculum design. Engaging students as partners (SaP) in teaching and learning is an emerging yet contested topic in higher education. The research aims to offer learner-led pedagogy through engaging the SaP. Initially the research offers a critical discourse on various perspectives on design studio teaching pedagogy involving tools, teachers, and procedures. Later moves onto a series of studio observations and interviews with students, made for two consecutive semesters at Taylor's and University Malaya. By keeping the learners at the core, SaP, the subjectivity of designers brought to main focus. The contribution of the paper is a learner-led new pedagogy, on e-learning, for the emerging young learners. The significance is to offer tools for exploring originality in design and therefore to empower the budding designers, the learners in architecture.

Exploring Curriculum for Science Education: Lessons from a Mexican Biosphere Reserve

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-101
Author(s):  
Gabriela Alonso-Yanez
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Critical Aspect ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
Design For Science ◽  
Education Initiative

Exploring science as a collective undertaking embedded in sociocultural contexts is a critical aspect of science education. This article concerns questions of curriculum design for science education for young learners, and it reports findings of a study on a conservation and environmental education initiative in Mexico’s Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve. Using situational analysis to study this case, I discovered that conservation projects and the science behind them are seldom framed as situated within complex social factors; yet these factors often drive decisions about the environment and can drastically affect what is taught in science curriculums. Presenting science in all its complexity can make science curriculums ‘live’ and can help students understand science as instrumental in addressing challenges that society confronts today.

The English Camps as Method of Promoting Fun English at Elementary School Level in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Meida Rachmawati ◽  
Suzana Widjajanti ◽  
Ahmad Ahmad ◽  
Aslan Aslan
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Level ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scientific Publications

This article aimed to promote English in elementary school students through a fun learning method, called the Fun English Camp. Several studies had been conducted to encounter the best solution to handle this issue. The researchers used PRISMA Protocol as an instrument to collect the data that has been widely used in the process of selecting relevant articles. The researchers reviewed twenty five scientific publications, related to Fun English Camp that has become an English learning approach for beginner students. Through a review of twenty five scientific publications, for instance book and journal, the researchers got scientific evidence that introduction of a learning method with the term Fun English camp has an impact on promoting language learning for elementary school children in Indonesia. Thus, the fun English camp method can be an interesting method to be applied by elementary school curriculum design in Indonesia. Keywords: English Camps, Learning Method, Fun English Learning

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