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Gregory H. Kamwendo 《Africa Education Review》2019,16(6):37-52
AbstractThis article discusses the resource implications of Malawi’s new language-in-education policy. Whilst previous publications on the English as a medium of teaching and learning policy, which was announced in Malawi in 2014, have sharply criticised and dismissed the new language policy from pedagogical and other educational grounds, the current article is the first to dwell exclusively on the resource implications of the new language policy. The qualitative study reported on, which utilised Barron’s learning ecologies framework, was based on information drawn from one key informant; readers’ comments extracted from a Malawian online newspaper; and some scholarly publications. The article argues that the available resources are too inadequate to lead to a successful implementation of English as a medium of teaching and learning in the non-English-dominant Malawi. The article recommends that Malawi should return to the previous language policy, which was UNESCO compliant, and that adequate and enabling resources be channelled to improving the teaching and learning of English as a subject. Resources should also be injected into the professional development of teachers in order to capacitate them to effectively handle English as a medium of teaching and learning from Grade 5 onwards. 相似文献
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Avi Cohen 《Educational Media International》2013,50(3):218-229
Abstracts English: The article maps the possibilities open to teaching institutions in distance learning through the Internet. It considers the ways in which the Internet allows us to evaluate the efforts and strategies that should be chosen in order to implement distance learning through the Internet according to the organization's teaching goals and the type of distance teaching it chooses. The basic terms of synchronic and asynchronic learning, non‐interactive learning, scope and learning‐time circles are defined and they create a system of axes upon which one can place distance learning in an organization or a course that consists of various aspects of distance learning. 相似文献
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AbstractThe online environment is an expansive educational context distinct from the traditional one. We problematize the current online teacher education landscape and make recommendations for practices that prepare and support teachers as online teachers, rather than teachers who periodically use Internet resources and digital devices for instruction. Recommendations focus on personalization, collaboration, administrative support, program (re)designs, new models of technological integration, attention to standards for teaching and learning, and ongoing professional learning opportunities. 相似文献
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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(1):63-73
The paper examines the changing role of the supervisor of Teaching Practice (TP) in the field of primary school Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). The thesis of the paper is that as the second language teaching/learning paradigm has changed enormously in recent years, the supervisor's role must likewise change to ensure harmony between the new approach to second language teaching/learning, and the model of supervision that is adopted. The writer's observations are based on data collected over six years in Brunei, but the problem of resolving disharmony between two conflicting positions is not unique to Brunei, as the writer discovered in similar situations in Africa and the Middle East. The writer argues in favour of a 'Developmental' model of TP supervision as it approximates most closely to the developmental approach to second language learning implicit in the task-based approach, which has been widely accepted as the new norm in TESL methodology. 相似文献
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Di Zou 《Interactive Learning Environments》2019,27(8):1127-1142
ABSTRACTJust-in-time teaching and peer instruction are two student-centred approaches that have been widely employed in various science subjects but seldom in language classrooms. This research proposed a flipped learning model through technology-enhanced just-in-time teaching and peer instruction and investigated the effectiveness of this model in promoting English learning. Two groups of upper intermediate EFL learners participated in the study and learned in two different flipped learning modes, one with the newly proposed approach and the other with the conventional flipped learning approach. The results showed that the proposed model outperformed the conventional model in promoting the development of students’ writing skills, motivation, and tendency of critical thinking. The use of an assessment-centred tool (e.g. EDpuzzle) for interactive videos and cloud-based tools for real-time collaboration (e.g. Padlet and Google Docs) assisted in creating scaffolded learning experience, sharing culture, and opportunities of peer instruction for students in the flipped classroom with Just-in-time teaching and peer instruction. Such results implied that our flipped learning model is very conducive to language learning, and it is advised to be employed more widely in various language learning classes. 相似文献
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Harkaitz Zubiri-Esnaola O. Rios-Gonzalez T. Morla-Folch 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2020,62(2):162-180
ABSTRACTBackground: Interaction, participation and collaboration are thought to be important factors for supporting successful second or foreign language learning. The use of Interactive Groups (IGs) is regarded as helpful in creating the conditions in which interaction, participation and collaboration are increased to create effective dialogic learning. However, there is limited understanding of the role of IGs in supporting second or foreign language learning.Purpose: The aim of the present study was to explore the opportunities that IGs generated for supporting interaction, participation and collaboration in a situation where students were learning English as a foreign language.Method: A communicative methodology was used to collect and analyse observational and interview data from three classrooms where teaching and learning was organised through IGs, each in a different school in Spain involved in Schools as Learning Communities: Successful Educational Actions (SEAs). Across the three classrooms, there were 58 students, three teachers and 14 volunteers, whose role was to support and encourage communication. The schools served low SES communities. We conducted eight classroom observations and 17 semi-structured interviews. The data were analysed qualitatively.Findings: The thematic analysis suggested that, in the classrooms that were studied, there was evidence that participants and observers felt that IGs promoted effective conditions for the inclusive participation of all learners, created a favourable climate for collaborative interactions regarding the target language and raised learning expectations for all students. In addition, the contribution of the volunteers was identified as crucial to the successful functioning of the IGs.Conclusion: This small scale, qualitative study highlights the potential for IGs to create favourable conditions for the learning of English and other languages as a foreign language. More extensive studies are needed to determine the best way to use IGs for the teaching and learning of foreign languages in other contexts. 相似文献
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"互联网+"给我国现有的教育资源、教学模式、学习策略等带来了巨大的变化。移动学习应成为新型语言教学的辅助手段。本研究探索在"互联网+"背景下学生利用手机学习软件进行大学英语词汇移动自主学习的可行性和有效性,用定量和定性的方法考察学生移动自主学习效果。结果表明:学生对英语词汇移动学习的便捷性与有效性持肯定态度;利用互联网+进行大学英语词汇移动自主学习具有可行性,可以提高学生英语词汇学习效果;但在增强学习动机上作用有限。 相似文献
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《Journal of Vocational Education & Training》2012,64(35):209-221
Summary In the favourable circumstances of highly competitive international political, economic and cultural conditions, thanks to the latest results of technology and science, the 60-years old teachers' reform movement has achieved a major break-through. The most important technical instrument of this success is the ‘greatest invention since the invention of the alphabet’, the tape recorder, and its extension in the language laboratory. Fortified by the new insights into the structure of language and the teaching/learning situation, progress after the initial skirmishes has been so rapid that long-term planning, including training and research, has not kept pace with the speed of developments. If one were to hazard a forecast at the future, one might say that within the next 2 years we shall see the emergence of a new criterion of the quality and suitability of the equipment, its life expectancy. This will impose new problems on manufacturers and may lead to the elimination of some types of equipment and the emergence of others on considerations of quality/cost ratio. As teachers and manufacturers gain experience, and as publishers of course material are drawn more closely into active participation, improved design and teaching material and methods will ensure the vitality of the language laboratory into the seventies and the maintenance of the market or its extension. In line with technical progress it seems likely that the traditional equipment will be supplanted thereafter by new audio-visual aids, capable of a greater measure of control, which already announce themselves. For all that, the continued domination of language teaching by the reform methods cannot be regarded as guaranteed as the challenge of new bottles for old wine is gaining momentum. At a time when language teaching is spreading into the primary school it seems worth recording that according to the movement's concepts the acquisition of the aural/oral skills by his students is the teacher's first task, and that it is the teacher who produces the teaching material or, through teaching method, puts it to use in the teaching aid. 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(3):447-459
ABSTRACTThe capacity to use language is unique from one individual to another. This could also depend on the individual's exposure to a language. This article aims to contribute to the growing area of research on language anxiety by exploring the extent to which language anxiety affects learners’ performance in learning in multilingual classrooms, especially African learners who are learning English as a second language. Learners, especially in the Intermediate Phase in South Africa who are learning in a second language for the first time, may experience a certain level of anxiety because that language is foreign to them. The discussion idea is further advanced by exploring the use more than one language in teaching in order to promote learner autonomy in the learning process. The conclusion will try to provide possible means to deal with language anxiety amongst learners in order to improve learner performance. 相似文献
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The aim of the Baldufa project that is presented in this article is to help both teachers and students in teaching‐learning activities in physics. A certain amount of HTML documentation is available, at this moment, to be used by students as learning aids. Teachers can propose their own pedagogical strategies via the Internet. For these reasons, the authors have programmed a server and have conceived a teaching package in HTML language. 相似文献
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Abstract The study of learning environments provides a useful research framework for investigating the effects of educational innovations such as those which are associated with the use of the Internet in classroom settings. This study reports an investigation into the use of Internet technologies in high-school classrooms in Australia and Canada. Specifically, it combined the investigation of the physical and psychosocial learning environments featured within these ‘technological settings’, as well as interactions among the selected physical and psychosocial factors in influencing students' satisfaction with their learning in these settings. Further, we explored how both the physical and psychosocial domains can effectively enable or, alternatively, constrain the teaching methods used in these classrooms. We first explored the learning environment in these classrooms through the use of a questionnaire measuring aspects of the psychosocial learning environment together with ergonomic site evaluations. Next, we investigated interactions among physical and psychosocial variables in these classrooms through selected and detailed case studies, which included a more detailed assessment of the physical classroom environment in tandem with classroom observations and student/teacher interviews. The results offer insights into new approaches to technology implementation and teaching practice and call for teachers to take a leading role in classroom laboratory design. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTThe teaching and learning of languages has been mainly investigated within educational institutions, especially by applied linguists. However, religious spaces such as churches and church related programs have historically and contemporarily served as important alternative spaces for such teaching and learning to take place. At the same time, such institutions and the way that language teaching and learning unfold in these spaces necessitates both a critical and empirical examination which makes salient the role and consequences of power. The focus of this special issue is to provide examples of studies which seek to fill this gap. This introduction serves as a way to set up this special issue and the articles within it by making salient the themes of language socialization, language ideology, identity, Christianity, ethnography and systems of power, as well as showing how the four studies in this special issue speak to the aforementioned gap and these themes. 相似文献
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Andrea Dlaska 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(1):103-124
This article proposes a content-orientated approach to teaching foreign languages in institution-wide language programmes. It posits that a separation of content and language in an entirely skills-based model of teaching non-specialist language learners is neither university-adequate nor in the interest of successful language learning. Arguing that content-driven curricula support collaborative and autonomous forms of learning, the paper proposes that general language modules should be based on a coherent, university-specific subject focus. The author suggests that language centres should draw on the cultural and disciplinary diversity of its students to create meaningful topics of cross-disciplinary communication. Making learners' cultural and academic experiences the subject of analysis aids the development of a group identity among non-specialist learners and thus the formation of authentic discourse communities even before contact with target language communities is established. The paper also addresses the role of networking technologies in establishing such multidisciplinary communities of non-specialist language learners. 相似文献
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张明 《上海师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2006,35(3):94-96
互联网在信息社会中的地位已经越来越不可替代，针对传统高中英语教学中存在教学效果差、学习效率低等现象，尝试运用互联网技术和资源为学生创造良好的语言学习平台，培养学习兴趣，提高自主学习能力，来弥补传统教学的不足，已经成为崭新的教学研究课题。 相似文献
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《The Educational forum》2012,76(4):406-411
Abstract This article addresses the following questions: What impact does using the theoretical framework of new literacies have on understanding language, literacy, and learning practices today as technologies are constantly being developed and used? What is the state of research in this area? What are some new directions the field might take in order to develop in new ways? The conclusion suggests some possibilities for new research questions and positions in relation to new technologies. 相似文献
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Spoken language is such an important part in learning English that College English Curriculum Requirement considers promoting the students’ spoken language as one of the most important goals in teaching English.However,at present,the students’ oral expression competence is not so good in colleges.It is urgent to improve the quality of oral English classes and solve mute English of the students in colleges.Internet-based teaching is the new teaching mode adapting to the trend of the times.Internet provides excellent interactive methods for inquiry learning mode and provides the possibility for constructing an open learning environment. 相似文献
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《校园英语(教研版)》2015,(31):67-68
In the digital era,with the rapid development of the computer technology,the possibility and interest of utilizing Internet in L2 language classrooms has gradually increased.In particular,as a useful tool for enhancing language learning and teaching the computer-mediated communication(CMC)through the Internet has become extremely popular over the last five years.Based on the previous literatures,this essay aims not only to discuss a string of actual merits of CMC in terms of L2 teaching and learning but also some demerits belong to it.Furthermore,in order to achieve the most appropriate way to implement CMC into the L2 classroom,some possible solutions for dealing with those disadvantages will also be suggested. 相似文献
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Abstract The Open University (OU) has a long and distinguished history of teaching biology at a distance by a supported open learning model. This article examines some of the challenges in delivering biology via distance teaching, explores some of the lessons learned, and discusses the opportunities and hazards of new teaching technologies that the OU has helped pioneer. 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(2):221-241
Abstract Although mother tongue education is recommended by policymakers, researchers and language learning authorities, the reality in South Africa is that many parents/caregivers and learners believe that English is the best choice as Language of Learning and Teaching. Many English second-language (ESL) learners experience barriers to learning, because of a limited English proficiency. An empirical study was conducted to identify the needs and perceptions of Grade 4 educators regarding ESL learners with a limited English proficiency. The following factors were targeted in the study: demographic factors; language issues; educators' perception of learners with language barriers; and teaching of ESL learners who have limited English proficiency. The findings suggest that educators teaching ESL learners are in need of support. 相似文献
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Learning science interpreted in existing theoretical frameworks often means that students are assimilated, accommodated or enculturated from the entity of the vernacular world to the entity of the scientific world. However, there are some unsolved questions as to how students can best learn purely a new language or new knowledge of science. The purpose of this study is to conduct microanalysis of moment-to-moment interactions in order to understand how science language is taught and learned in details. Informed by Bakhtin’s dialogism, the analysis indicates that learning science is a process of appropriating authoritative discourse into internally persuasive discourse. Based on our analysis and findings, we propose the framework of discursive evolution to describe the process of teaching and learning the language of science. Four different stages of discursive evolution are identified to demonstrate the discursive changes during the course of science teaching and learning discourse: (a) using deictic references to connect scientific terminologies, (b) understanding science terminologies through its derivatives, (c) communicating science practices conventionally through science terminologies, and (d) communicating science practices innovatively through mutated science terminologies. The findings suggest that science teaching and learning comprise a heterogeneous process which draws on both science and non-science language and is a constantly evolving process. Understanding teaching and learning as a heterogeneous and constantly evolving process allows us to reunite the roles of teachers and students as mutually responsible collaborators rather than science knowledge givers and consumers. 相似文献