Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics
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In search of reflective techniques in preservice teacher education: Collaboration with parents inspired by school placements
Get PDFThis paper addresses a problem which has been central in teacher education for several decades: how to encourage critical reflectivity in prospective EFL1 teachers. This problem is set within the larger context of the field of school, family and community partnerships. The rationale behind choosing this context is that there is a gap between the significance of various types of such partnerships for the well-being of the whole child, and a lack of deeper understanding of the issue among prospective teachers. The overwhelming majority of research in the matter, conducted mainly in the USA, covers the areas of pre-school, early school and special education (e.g. Lindberg 2014). Additionally, there are few research-based articles related to building the partnership skills of preservice EFL teachers. Therefore, in this paper we attempt to describe the cases of three prospective EFL teachers involved in the process of preparing small scale empirical projects related to the parents’ perspectives. As shown in the paper, engagement in such long term and complex enterprises does not automatically develop the subjects’ deeper understanding of the important role of various types of parent involvement in the (academic) success of children
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Get PDFChannel, robot, ghost, intruder, chameleon or mediator? Various roles of the cabin interpreter
Get PDFThe following paper is aimed at presenting and discussing the various roles – often mutually conflicting, or even unwanted – of the cabin interpreter. The starting point for the presented examples is an outline of the debate between practitioners and theoreticians of translation, centred around the actions that are expected from or prohibited for an interpreter in the situation of linguistic and cultural interpretation. The discussed concepts of roles are subsequently confronted with real-life examples of translator behaviours which have been taken from a broad research corpus obtained by the autho
From EFL classroom language to classroom lexicon: Importing formulaic story language into teacher talk
Get PDFThis paper reports on a language activity carried out in an Italian University with student teachers attending a primary education course. The activity was designed to train them to use authentic children’s picturebooks as a source for EFL language learning. It consisted of identifying and ‘noticing’ (Mackey 2006) multiword expressions and ready-made utterances in a number of authentic picturebooks and simulating instances of weaving the picturebook language into the fabric of daily classroom talk. Following the activity, the students wrote individual pieces of reflective writing describing their experience. Comments by student teachers assessed the use of picturebook-derived formulaic language on both their learning and perceived ability to teach English, and revealed much about their pedagogical perspectives on teacher talk. Results suggest that promoting the use of authentic and meaningful language in context can help student teachers conceive of classroom communication as lexicon (a shared communicative practice the rules of which are fully known only by a restricted community of speakers) rather than mere language-based interaction
Intersektionelle Filmanalyse in der fremdsprachigen Kulturdidaktik am Beispiel des MigrantInnenbildes in ausgewählten Culture-Clash-Komödien
Get PDFThe aim of the following paper is to discuss the image of migrants presented inselected culture-clash comedies, and its didactical contribution to transcultural learning. The intersectional analysis of three film sequences conducted in the framework of university classes (seminars and workshops) on intercultural communication is described as a starting point for discussion and reflection upon the stereotyped, and popularised images of migrants as people with specific qualities and skills, certain social backgrounds, and typical patterns of behaviour. The critical analysis of such images supports transcultural learning, which is understood, among others, as bringing aspects of the development of individual as well as collective identities into question, and acknowledging heterogeneity and diversity as cultural and social enrichment
On corpus-based teaching of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons. Syntagmatic patterns as “instructions for use” for learners of German
Get PDFThe aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using corpus analyses for the introduction of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons. The corpus analyses of three selected light verb constructions Maßnahmen ergreifen, einen Beschluss fassen and Bericht erstatten show the co-occurrence of these units and enable the creation of syntagmatic patterns and the allocation of individual light verb constructions to thematic areas. The results of the analysis confirm the thesis that syntagmatic patterns are an aid to learners of German, as they present their use in a sentence and show the partner words with their syntactic function. This method can present the context of use and the thematic area of the light verb constructions. The results of the analyses are also a guideline to placing the syntagmatic patterns in German-Polish dictionaries to help learners to use them and communicate with them correctly.The aim of the study is to show the possibilities of using corpus analyses for the introduction of light verb constructions in German during foreign language lessons. The corpus analyses of three selected light verb constructions Maßnahmen ergreifen, einen Beschluss fassen and Bericht erstatten show the co-occurrence of these units and enable the creation of syntagmatic patterns and the allocation of individual light verb constructions to thematic areas. The results of the analysis confirm the thesis that syntagmatic patterns are an aid to learners of German, as they present their use in a sentence and show the partner words with their syntactic function. This method can present the context of use and the thematic area of the light verb constructions. The results of the analyses are also a guideline to placing the syntagmatic patterns in German-Polish dictionaries to help learners to use them and communicate with them correctly
Literalität in kinderund jugendliterarischen Werken
Get PDFThe article starts with a discussion of the essential theories of literature. It focuses on the historical development of books for children and young-adults. Worldwide there are three childhood myths, which are unfolded in successful children\u27s books and which correspond to socially conditioned concepts of childhood. The Enlightenment childhood utopia sees children as promising for the future and improving human relationships. This idea explains the phenomenal resonance of books with educational and instructive concepts. In the 20th and 21st centuries this concept has become very popular again. By contrast, Romanticism developed another, second childhood myth, which combines not a future but a paradisiacal past with the image of childhood. In doing so, the holistic and naïve childlike world reference is stylized into an ideal that expresses the backward-looking yearning of adults. In addition to the Enlightenment and the Romantic childhood myths, there is a third, a negative view of childhood, which has also found expression in children\u27s classics worldwide. This refers to the myth of the evil child, who is originally committed to the Christian doctrine of original sin. In the next step the article traces different modes of reading. These are the literary mode and documentary/pragmatic mode. Then, based on fragments taken from children’s and juvenile books from different periods, the article demonstrates the role of literacy in texts written for children and young adults, and the role of children and young-adult books for reading competence. While the paper examines these ideas within different novels though history, it also raises questions about the aesthetics and epistemic value of literature
English language teachers’ conceptualizations of one-to-one private tutoring: An international phenomenographic study
Get PDFPrivate English tutoring, understood as the paid English teaching service offered to students to supplement their learning of English at school or prepare them for an examination in English, has become a popular out-of-school learning activity. In order to obtain deeper insights into its intricacies, the need arises to examine the experience of one of its pivotal stakeholders – the private tutors. This article is based on a phenomenographic study with a view to investigating the conceptions of private tutoring held by 15 English teachers from three countries (Poland, Portugal, and Turkey) who offer private teaching services in English in their local contexts. The findings suggest that there are at least three conceptions according to which private tutoring can be experienced by the participants: as a source of income, as helping, and as professional development. The study also poses the question if there is space for formal training of private tutors and calls for further research into English private tutoring
Effizienz der Methode Lernen durch Lehren (LdL) – Ergebnisse eines Experiments
Get PDFConstructivist learning approaches emphasize the interface of learning by doingand student participation, as well as the efficiency of the learning process. Research findings have also demonstrated that students learn more effectively from each other (Hattie 2013). The aim of the experiment conducted was to verify the efficiency of the “learning through teaching” method (LTT) (Martin 1985), in which students assume some of the teacher’s tasks. The experiment was conducted during the third semester of the “grammar in communication” course at the faculty of Applied Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. The result confirmed that, after a semester, the group working with the learning through teaching method had higher achievements than the control group. Thanks to a qualitative survey, some prospects and limits of the method could be determined. It also provided feedback for intern, process-oriented evaluation, which makes it possible to optimize course design in the future
