scholarly journals The role of language in scaffolding content & language integration in CLIL science classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kok-Sing Tang
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Text Genre ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Integrated Or

Abstract This commentary to the special issue “Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms” synthesizes the contributions from the authors by addressing two overarching questions. First, what is the role of language in mediating science teaching and learning in a CLIL science classroom? Second, to what extent can content and language be integrated or separated in CLIL instruction and assessment? In addressing the first question, I distil three major perspectives of how the authors conceive the role of language as a scaffolding tool. These roles are: (a) providing the discursive means and structure for classroom interaction to occur, (b) enabling students’ construction of knowledge through cognitive and/or linguistic processes, and (c) providing the semantic relationships for science meaning-making. These three perspectives roughly correspond to the discursive, cognitive-linguistic, and semiotic roles of language respectively. In addition, two other roles – epistemic and affective, though not emphasized in this issue, are also discussed. In addressing the second question, I raise a dilemma concerning the integration of content and language. While there are clear political and theoretical arguments calling for an inseparable integration, there is also a common practice to separate content and language as distinct entities for various pedagogical and analytical purposes. In revolving this conundrum, I suggest a way forward is to consider the differences in the various roles of language (discursive/cognitive/linguistic vs. semiotic/epistemic/affective) or the levels of language involved (lexicogrammar vs. text/genre).

scholarly journals Constructing Playful Talk through Translanguaging in English Medium Instruction Mathematics Classrooms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin W H Tai ◽  
L I Wei
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Mathematics Classrooms ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Building Rapport

Abstract Recent studies on English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) classroom interaction have begun to look at the role of translanguaging as a pedagogical practice in supporting participants to exploit multilingual and multimodal resources to facilitate content teaching and learning. The present study contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on playful talk in multiple languages and modalities in EMI mathematics classrooms in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Based on the data collected from a linguistic ethnography, we analyze how the teacher constructs playful talk in order to achieve various pedagogical goals including building rapport, facilitating content explanation and promoting meaningful communication with students. The analysis demonstrates that translanguaging appears to be a critical resource and that several social factors, including the teacher’s personal belief, history, sociocultural, and pedagogical knowledge, play a role in constructing playful talk. The playful talk transforms the classroom into a translanguaging space, which in turn allows the teacher and students to perform a range of creative acts and experiment with a variety of voices to facilitate the meaning making and knowledge construction processes.

Incorporation of GTM and CLT: An Effective Way to Teach & Learn English in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Asif Al Matin
Keyword(s):  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

The two very prominent methodologies are GTM and CLT in the education system in teaching & learning English in Bangladesh. To show the importance of the combination of these two phenomenal methods is the purpose of this paper. In Bangladesh GTM is commonly used for a long time, and at present CLT is also a very famous method. In this paper, the two methods are elaborated clearly in effective teaching and learning of English in Bangladesh. The study focuses on GTM and CLT in respects of achieving four skills, accuracy/fluency, teaching-learning process, handling the students’ feelings and emotions, the role of the native language of students, the language skills that are emphasized, and the way of teacher’s response to students’ errors. Though CLT is the more beneficial method nowadays GTM also has some positive things to offer. Based on the data and findings, this paper has also presented some suggestions for effective teaching and learning of English in Bangladesh.

Interdisciplinary K-12 Teaching and Learning

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Curriculum ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Lead Teachers ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
Meaningful Connections ◽  
Interdisciplinary Process

Educators understand the value of designing curriculum to meet the needs of diverse students (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Often an approach to creating and implementing learning experiences is initiated through school reform (Stegman, 2014). Theories, best practices and standards lead teachers to create effective curriculum (Keene & Zimmerman, 2007). In this chapter, the authors address the question, Why integrate curriculum? An integrated or interdisciplinary curriculum includes lessons based upon themes, problems, or projects that are student initiated. Through interdisciplinary learning, students make meaningful connections between the content knowledge, skills and practices in multiple disciplines with life experiences, gaining a deeper comprehension of what is studied. Meaning making is critical to the interdisciplinary process and involves knowledge transfer between disciplines (Post, Ellis, Humphreys, & Buggey, 1997). The intent of the authors of this text is to encourage teachers to redesign the K-12 curriculum to include interdisciplinary learning.

Impact and Role of AI Technologies in Teaching, Learning, and Research in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Pradeep Tomar ◽  
Shivani Verma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Teaching Learning

The future of higher education is intrinsically linked with developments on new technologies and computing capacities of the new intelligent machines. In this field, advances in artificial intelligence open to new possibilities and challenges for teaching and learning in higher education with the potential to fundamentally change governance and the internal architecture of institutions of higher education. The role of technology in higher learning is to enhance human thinking and to augment the educational process, not to reduce it to a set of procedures for content delivery, control, and assessment. With the rise of AI solutions, it is increasingly important for educational institutions to stay alert and see if the power of control over hidden algorithms that run them is not monopolized by tech-lords. This chapter will cover all the positive and negative aspects of AI technologies on teaching, learning, and research in higher education.

scholarly journals Basics of ICT in Teaching & Learning Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p162
Author(s):  
K. Balamurugan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Enterprise Software ◽  
Unified Communications ◽  
Educational Institute ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning

ICT—Information and Communication Technology is an extensional term for Information Technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and...ICT helps teacher to pass information to students within a very little time. ICT helps teacher to design educational environment. ICT helps teacher to identify creative child in educational institute. ICT helps teacher to motivate students and growing interest in learning. The paper envisages the maximum or at least optimum utility of ICT for the process of teaching and learning.

scholarly journals 25 Years of HOW: A Celebration of Language Teaching and Learning

HOW ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Sánchez-Solarte
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

This article overviews the major themes and pedagogical developments that have emerged via the academic endeavors of practitioners and researchers in the last 30 years, while also touching on how my work adheres to these developments. The document starts with a brief historical background on the establishment of HOW as a resource for the academic community. The next part of the article deals with the theoretical tenets that have influenced my published works. One of those perspectives is the post-method pedagogy, which acknowledges the limitations of attempting to determine what the “best” language teaching method is for everyone, and proposes three parameters to guide language teaching and learning. The next perspective is the psychology of language learning, particularly positive psychology, which is a field that adds balance to the study of negative emotions in the classroom and can be the basis for interventions that aim at enhancing the language learning process. The final construct discussed in the article is metacognition, which refers to how language teachers adapt their mental processes and behaviors to the emerging demands of their context. The article concludes highlighting a number of topics that were relevant three decades ago and that will likely keep their relevance in the future: the complexity of education, the dynamic nature of context and meaning, and the examination of the role of context in the L2 teaching/learning processes, to name only three.

scholarly journals Communication Strategies Used by Teacher

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-286
Author(s):  
Darman Pangaribuan ◽  
Stefani Agustina ◽  
Anggie Pratiwi ◽  
Elfian Manalu ◽  
Yenita br Sembiring
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Classroom Discourse Analysis ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Achievement Strategies

This thesis was aimed to find teacher communication strategies during classroom interaction. This research was conducted in SMP SWASTA Brigjend Katamso 1 Medan. The subject of this research was the English Teacher. We used a qualitative approach, more specifically classroom discourse analysis, in analyzing this study since the source of the data were communication strategies which are used by an English teacher in communicating with her students during an English teaching-learning activity. We took the data by recording 90 minutes of English Lessons. We used Faerch and Kasper as a framework for this data analysis, for the reason of its specification and newness. The result showed that the five strategies used were repetition. From those strategies, code-switching was the strategy that was most frequently used by the teacher during the process of teaching and learning. The teacher`s reasons for applying those communication strategies were to overcome the communication barriers that occur between the teacher and the students to help the students understand and memorize the material more accessible. The result of the interview also showed that the students had a good perception of the implementation of communication strategies used by the teacher in the classroom. Keywords: Achievement strategies, Communication strategies, Reduction strategies, Teacher

scholarly journals Penggunaan Comic Strip Pada Materi Future Tense: Tindakan Kelas Pada Mahasiswa Dkv Universitas Indraprasta Pgri

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Fitria Iswari ◽  
Dian Handayani ◽  
Fenti Mariska Yohana
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Total Respondent ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Teaching Learning

Bahasa Inggris saat ini dapat dikatakan  bahasa yang  universal  karena banyak  digunakan sebagai alat komunikasi di pelbagai negara. Salah satunya di Indonesia Bahasa Inggris dipelajari mulai dari tingkat sekolah dasar hingga perguruan tinggi. Dalam bahasa inggris di perguruan tinggi mahasiswa akan mempelajari berbagai macam tenses dan tidak sedikit dari mereka yang merasa kesulitan dalam memahaminya. Salah satu contohnya ialah future tense. Peranan media pembelajaran dalam proses pengajaran sangat penting, apabila mahasiswa masih ada yang merasa kesulitan hal ini menunjukan bahwa media pembelajaran tersebut perlu dikembangkan dibuat lebih menarik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat keefektifan media pembelajaran comic strip. Peneliti memilih komik strip karena dianggap komik strip lebih menarik dan lebih sederhana. Metode yang digunakan oleh peneliti ialah penelitian tindakan kelas yang akan dilakukan  ujicoba terhadap 3 kelas yang masing – masing kelas terdiri dari 40 mahasiswa, jumlah keseluruhan menjadi 120 mahasiwa. Dalam hal ini peneliti akan melakukan pretest kemudian melakukan tindakan kelas lalu post test guna melihat hasil dari pengunaan comic strip dalam pembelajaran. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan nilai tes dan hasil wawancara. Data menunjukan ada peningkatan nilai rata- rata 18%. Kata kunci : Komik Strip, Media pembelajaran, Future tense     Abstract   Todays we can say that English is a universal language because it is used as communication tool in many countries. In Indonesia English is studied from elementary school to college. Student in college will study any kinds of tenses, and some of them face the difficult in understanding it, for example future tense. The role of teaching learning media in teaching process is very important. If there is student who feels the difficulties, it means that the teaching learning media need to be improved and made more interesting. The aim of this research is to find the effectiveness of comic strip. The researchers choose comic strip because they think that comic strip is more interesting and simple than before. Researchers use action research method that will be tested to 3 classes which consist of 40 students from each class, and the total respondent is 120 students. Researchers will take the pretest, action in the class, take the post test to see the result of using the comic strip. The data collection is taken from score and interview. the data shown the increasing 18%. Key words : comic strip, teaching and learning media, future tense.

Perception of Undergraduate Physical Therapy Students of Dual Role of Clinical Educator As A Mentor or Assessor: Influence on The Teaching-Learning Relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sameer ◽  
Ashfaq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Clinical Educator ◽  
One Year ◽  
Teaching Learning

Academics clinical education is significant backbone of physiotherapy professionals' schooling and it is express as vital components w h i c h m a k e s r e a d y p r o f e s s i o n a l s o f physiotherapy for experience in clinical set-up.Objective: To investigate understudies' view of how the dual role of CEs as mentor and evaluator affected T-L relationship.Methodology: Self-oriented questionnaire was used using the quantitative research approach. A crosssectional survey design was used in this study. Consenting undergraduate physiotherapy clinical students from university of Lahore, Pakistan who had clinical education for at least one year completed the questionnaire. Consecutive sampling was used to recruit samples of 225 understudies.Results: The difficulties were noticed when CE needed tobehave and acting as the two evaluator and guider to the necessity of understudies. They change their behavior. This affected the relationship of teaching and learning thus affected the studying of undergrad learners. Desires for understudies and CE were frequently not satisfied.Conclusions: Discoveries found out in investigation, based onthe perspectives or the encounters that understudies have of double job of their CEs, become featured. This situation become critical to think about difficulties which are faced by understudies so as to limit possible harmful impacts on understudies' studying environment caused by difficulties

Instructional Dynamic and Flexible Strategy

2014 ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Railean
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Educational Ideal

Globalization, Anthropology, and Existentialism (GAE) is a philosophical paradigm of PreK–12 education that adds value to a new educational ideal: professionalism, planetary thinking, and cultural pluralism. Critical pedagogy constitutes a part of this philosophy, which describes the interdependencies between teaching, learning, and environmental assessment. By comparing the Freirean approach to the affordance of new educational technologies in everyday classrooms, the authors propose an instructional dynamic and a flexible strategy. Such a strategy proves the changing roles of teacher and learner during the learning process. This chapter aims to describe the instructional dynamic and flexible strategy as integral to teaching and learning and to evaluation methods that engage learners in classroom cognitive activity. The objective of the chapter is to investigate the transition from algorithmic to empirical methods, encouraged by the increasing role of self-regulation techniques. This presents insights into the perceived significance of the new learning strategy.

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