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Om referat av tale og tanker. Innspill til grammatikk- og språkferdighetsundervisningen i tysk på universitets- og høgskolenivå.
No full textThis article presents aspects of reported speech in modern German from a contrastive Norwegian-German perspective. It focuses in particular on the use of indicative mood in German reported speech and suggests topics which should be thematised when teaching German indirect speech at university level
All write: Samarbeid om skriving i engelskopplæringen
No full textDenne artikkelen tar for seg elevers samarbeid om skriving i engelskfaget, innenfor rammen av et kurstilbud for svakt presterende elever på åttende, niende og tiende trinn. Læreren vektla skriveaktiviteter i disse kursene med referanse til Swain & Lapkin (1995) sin «output hypothesis», som går ut på at elever lærer best når de må produsere språk selv. Idéen til samarbeidsskriving fikk han fra forskning som peker på språklæringseffekten av at elever snakker sammen om språk («languaging») og blir klar over «hull» i egne språkferdigheter (Swain2006; Manchón 2011a). Skriving anses som spesielt egnet for «languaging»,ettersom skriftlig språk produseres langsommere enn muntlig, og fordi elevene kan forholde seg til et skriftlig produkt (Williams, 2012). Jeg var følgeforsker ved kursene.Undersøkelsen viser at elevene opplevde samarbeid om skriving som motiverende og lærerikt. De la stor arbeidsvilje for dagen, og de samarbeidet både om innhold, tekststruktur og språklige utfordringer. Bearbeiding av tekst på bakgrunn av lærerens tilbakemeldinger viste seg å være spesielt godt egnet for samarbeid. Overkommelige, meningsfylte og varierte oppgaver ser ut til å være en viktig forutsetning for at elevene skal trives med samarbeidsformen. Lærerens faglige og administrative dyktighet og evne til å motivere spiller også en avgjørende rolle
Two decades of programme-based promotion of workplace innovation in Finland: past experiences and future challenges
No full textThis article describes and explains the reasons for the rise and establishment ofprogramme-based promotion of workplace innovation in Finland during the last 20 years.Several ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that have simultaneously promoted the consolidation ofthese efforts are presented. The author also examines the Finnish programmes and ‘Nordicexceptionalism’ in a broader European context, referring to the overall under-resourcingof workplace innovation activities in European public policies so far. At the end of thearticle, new challenges to workplace development deriving from the rapid reshaping ofworking life are discussed. Despite the rather gloomy picture that is painted of how debateon a good working life has been flagging in many European countries recently, the authorbelieves that the significance of workplace innovations as one of the driving forces of the‘second wave’ of ICT-based productivity growth will increase in the future. The author alsowelcomes the European Commission’s new initiative, the EUWIN project, as an importantindication that workplace innovations are also seen as increasingly important from theperspective of industrial policy in Europe
Practical discourse and the notion of democratic dialogue
No full textThe notion of democratic dialogue made its entrance in Scandinavian workplacedevelopment in the 1980s. One reason was the need, recognised by the labour marketparties, for replacing negotiations with more evolutionary forms of communication in localdevelopment contexts. The article traces the emergence of the concept, its content and itsfate as a moving force in development processes. The movement towards dialogue has beensuccessful in the sense that dialogue has become common in workplace conversations. Thedevelopment also raises new challenges
The influence of a Lesson Study cycle on a 2nd grade EFL picture book-based teaching practice lesson in Norway
No full textThis study aims to explore the influence of Lesson Study on the teaching of a 2nd grade English as a foreign language (EFL) picture book-based lesson conducted by a group of student teachers during teaching practice in Norway. Lesson Study is an investigative educational method originating in Japan. A group of teachers plan a research lesson which one of them teaches and the others observe, their attention focussing on a few selected pupils. The lesson is reviewed, re-planned and re-taught to a different class. The data presented here was collected through video-recordings of two lessons (a lesson taught and the same lesson re-planned and re-taught) and their corresponding pre-, mid-and post-supervision sessions. Lesson Study appeared to have had an influence on the activities, especially the type and number of questions being asked by the teacher, the timing of activities, and the use of the target language. It also appeared to have had an influence on the attitudes of both the mentors and students to using picture books with young EFL learners. Lesson Study has previously been little used and researched in foreign language teaching. This study demonstrates its potential to enhance teaching and learning in that context
Fighting covert discrimination by concept learning. A study of the pedagogical value of one Pestalozzi training resource in Norway.
No full textThis 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
Scroll, Copy and Paste: Students of Spanish Searching for Information Online
No full textThe aim of this article is to study foreign language students’ agency when searching for specific information online in Spanish. The research questions ask: How do students surf the web when searching for specific information in a work session about Spanish speaking countries? What surfing choices are made?How are digital resources present in the students’ searching and learning process within their session?What do the digital resources used in this learning situation offer? A web-searching task was formed in cooperation with two Spanish teachers. Data collected and analyzed from the two students include screen cast recordings, prompted interviews and video film. Data was analyzed and discussed within the field of Designs for Learners, stressing the role of student agency. Some results show that the students ”look at” rather than ”read” the texts; the idea that they visit web sites comes to mind. They emphasize work product rather than work process, work fast, multitask and select/copy/paste. They often listen to music, look for headlines rather than to use web site menus and find it difficult to evaluate sources. They choose various sources such as text sites, Wikipedia, image banks or travel agency sites in different languages. Other resources used were translation and vocabulary services, quick commands, copy and paste. They do not use the teacher or any non-digital resources. Key words: student agency, information searching, foreign language studie
Workplace Innovation Forum: A section in the EJWI
No full textLaunching a new journal means beginning a distinctive new conversation. WorkplaceInnovation is about practice, and not just academic theory. The journal needs a place wherepractice is presented, and can influence the development of theory. Short articles arewelcome for the Forum Section in EJWI, facilitating debate and collaboration