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Meaning-Focused Materials for Language Learning
This publication is a result of the joint conference held by MATSDA and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, in Tilburg in June 2017. MATSDA is an international materials development association founded in 1993 which serves to bring together researchers, teachers, materials developers and publishers in an effort to improve the effectiveness of language learning materials. The 2017 conference centred on issues related to the development of meaning-focused materials for language learning, and attracted presenters from twenty-five countries stretching from Greenland to Brazil. These issues are reflected in the chapters in this volume, with each one focusing on a different aspect of meaning-focused materials and many of them introducing the reader to previously unexplored facets of the theory of meaning-focused instruction and its application to materials development. The contributions here are of essential value to post-graduate students, to teachers, to materials developers and to researchers. They are written to be academically rigorous, but at the same time accessible to newcomers to the field and to experienced experts alike.
Teaching Young Learners in Bilingual Settings
Bilingual education, or CLIL, at primary school varies greatly across European educational contexts. Teaching Young Learners in Bilingual Settings reports on a study that explored one such CLIL context in Dortmund, Germany. Through interviews and classroom observations, the researcher and author sought not only to document some of what takes place in CLIL classrooms but to describe and understand teachers' thoughts and beliefs about their CLIL teaching practices. This research contributes to a better understanding of primary school CLIL programs and teachers and is relevant for researchers working in the fields of foreign language education, bilingual education, and language teacher cognition research. Furthermore, the insights into CLIL teachers' thinking can support CLIL teachers, administrators, and policy makers as they seek to further develop CLIL pedagogy and programs.
Peer Interactions in New Content and Language Integrated Settings
Trade schools, universities, and programs for international students have begun to experiment with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as a viable pedagogy for instruction, as the pedagogy of CLIL increasingly gains recognition as a practical form of language and content education in Europe and beyond, and its application in instructional settings becomes more diverse. Corresponding with CLIL’s growth, this book focuses on foreign language use during peer interactions in a new CLIL setting. It particularly concentrates on how to conduct research when the focus is on learner interactions. The theoretical background, research methods, and research instruments are explained in a brief and understandable manner. This book is intended for those interested in CLIL and peer interactions and includes a framework and ideas for investigating new CLIL contexts in a practical manner allowing undergraduate and graduate students to conduct their own research in these settings.
Global Citizenship, Ecomedia and English Language Education
This book presents a unique framework for the inclusion of ecomedia in the English language classroom to help learners cultivate global citizenship. Foregrounding learner agency in a world at risk, the author proposes a framework that hinges on human rights and critical eco-cosmopolitanism to help learners position themselves in discourses on climate change and act for transformation. The book discusses eco-documentaries as multimodal, factional texts against the background of cutting-edge research, refuting a definition based on the binary of fiction and non-fiction. Translating the insights gained from this discussion to the language education context, learners are conceptualised as active...
Reading Authentic English Picture Books in the Primary School EFL Classroom
This book deals with reading authentic English picture books in the EFL classroom. The author conducted a mixed methods study of Year 4 learners' reading comprehension, reading strategies and FL development. The results suggest that teachers should use more challenging and authentic reading tasks with young EFL learners.
Teaching English in the Primary School
Grundschulenglisch kompetent unterrichten Qualitativ hochwertiger Englischunterricht in der Grundschule hängt vor allem von der professionellen Kompetenz der Lehrkräfte ab. Der vorliegende Band in englischer Sprache behandelt in 13 Kapiteln grundlegende Themen und Konzepte für deren Entwicklung in Aus- und Fortbildung sowie im Selbststudium. Der Praxisband geht auf die besonderen Bedingungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ein und berücksichtigt die internationalen Forschungen zum Fremdsprachenunterricht in der Grundschule. Er ist dabei dem aufgabenorientierten Lehren und Lernen verpflichtet. Ausgehend von der Heterogenität heutiger Grundschulkinder und der Komplexität des fremdsprachli...
Standards - Margins - New Horizons
Ausgehend von den Befunden der New London Group, die tiefgreifende Veränderungen im Arbeitsleben, im Privatleben und im öffentlichen Leben in der westlichen Gesellschaft feststellte, widmet sich das Themenheft der Frage, wie Fremdsprachenunterricht im 21. Jahrhundert in den neuen und alten Sprachen gestaltet werden soll. Im Vordergrund stehen die Fragen, auf welche Weise Lernende auf die zunehmend komplexen kommunikativen Herausforderungen vorbereitet werden können, die eine kulturell diversifizierte Welt bietet, und wie gleichzeitig einer (wachsenden) Heterogenität von Lerngruppen Rechnung ge tragen werden kann. Die vierzehn Beiträge sind in sechs Sektionen untergliedert: Sprachbildung; Sprachliche Vielfalt; Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität; Re zeption von Literatur, Kultur und Medialität; Literatur, Religion und Musik in he terogenen Lerngruppen; Digitalität, Digitalisierung und digitaler Wandel. Die The menfelder werden im Dialog zwischen Neu- und Altphilologien (v.a. Anglistik und Latein, aber auch Romanistik) sowie der Musikpädagogik behandelt.
Teaching English
This foundational coursebook offers an accessible and up-to-date introduction to all relevant areas of Teaching English. Definitions and practical examples guide the understanding and reflection of basic and advanced concepts of foreign language learning. The fully revised second edition responds to new developments in language education: (1) Recent policies from the Kultusministerkonferenz and updates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with its Companion Volume (2020) pay more attention to language awareness, mediation, and media literacy. (2) New empirical research explores the aims, methods, and impact of professional teacher education, Task-Based Language Teaching, and Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning. (3) The dramatic need for online teaching has met with refined concepts of multimodal media competence and cutting-edge tools for the digital classroom. This essential introduction and the PowerPoint presentations online facilitate multimodal teaching and learning.
Sprache, Kulturen, Identitäten: Umbrüche durch Digitalisierung
Digitalisierung und Fremdsprachenlernen ist eine noch junge Verbindung, deren Bedeutung in der heutigen Zeit stetig wächst. Die Fremdsprachenforschung leistet hierzu einen wichtigen Beitrag und bewegt sich dabei im Spannungsfeld der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen digitalen Fremdsprachenlernens. Dieser Sammelband fasst die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse des 28. DGFF-Kongresses im Bereich der Umbrüche durch Digitalisierung zusammen und beleuchtet das Kongressthema aus unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln. Neben digitalen Austauschprojekten und neu gedachten Konzeptionen von Schule, findet sich auch die Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen digitalen Lehr- und Lernmaterialien und ihrem Einsatz in individuel...
