Viljo Kohonen, Riitta Jaatinen, Pauli Kaikkonen, Jorma Lehtovaara

Experiential Learning in Foreign Language Education (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The goal of foreign language teaching is expanding from communicative competence towards an intercultural action competence. Essential in the new orientation is the shift towards a more balanced emphasis between the external factors in the learning environment and the personal capacity, conceptions, beliefs and assumptions inside the learner's mind. As part of the changes, assessment is seen as an important means of enhancing the learning processes, emphasising the role of reflective self-assessment. The text explores and integrates the necessary knowledge base and practices in foreign language education in terms of the basic concepts of experiential learning, intercultural learning, autobiographical knowledge and teacher development, together with the philosophical underpinnings of foreign language education.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317883067
• Artikelnr.: 41066937

Autorenporträt

Viljo Kohonen , Riitta Jaatinen , Pauli Kaikkonen , Jorma Lehtovaara

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface page xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Towards experiential
foreign language education 8 2.1 Why experiential foreign language
education? 8 2.1.1 Society developments 8 2.1.2 Paradigm shifts in
curriculum, teaching and learning 11 2.1.3 Implications for experiential
foreign language education 20 2.2 What is experiential learning? 22 2.2.1
Role of experience in learning 22 2.2.2 Foundations of experiential
learning 24 2.2.3 Basic model of experiential learning 27 2.2.4 Directions
and settings in experiential learning 31 2.2.5 Reflection and motivation in
experiential learning 32 2.3 Awareness, autonomy, authenticity and
coherence in experiential foreign language education 35 2.3.1 Framework of
experiential language education in context 36 2.3.2 Developments in
evaluation: authentic assessment 50 2.3.3 Coherence in. language learning
through teacher development 54 2.3.4 Coherence through collegial school
culture 56 2.4 References 56 3 Intercultural learning through foreign
language education 61 3.1 Towards intercultural foreign language learning
61 3.1.1 Linguistics and foreign language teaching 61 3.1.2 The
intercultural and the holistic approach 62 3.1.3 The shell of the native
language and culture 64 3.1.4 Intercultural competence 66 vii Vlll Contents
3.2 Diversity and otherness - the basic concepts of intercultural learning
68 3.2.1 The need for intercultural learning 68 3.2.2 Encountering
foreignness: what makes foreign foreign? 73 3.3 Culture and language 79
3.3.1 The concept of culture 79 3.3.2 Widening the concept of language 82
3.3.3 Intercultural learning and foreign language education 84 3.4 Toward
culture-based experiential foreign language education 87 3.4.1 Curriculum
development through teaching experiments 87 3.4.2 Research project:
'Culture and foreign language education' 88 3.4.3 Intercultural learning
from the student's point of view 90 3.4.4 Intercultural learning: learning
materials and methods in foreign language education 92 3.4.5 Intercultural
learning: the site visit and student exchange in foreign language education
95 3.4.6 Intercultural learning: reflections on student experiences 97 3.5
Conclusion 100 3.6 References 102 4 Autobiographical knowledge in foreign
language education and teacher development 106 4.1 .Lt\.autobiographical
experiential knowledge in foreign language teaching and learning 106 4.1.1
Concepts 106 4.1.2 Goals of teaching and learning a foreign language 110
4.1.3 Nature of the process of teaching and learning a foreign language 113
4.1.4 Autobiographical content in teaching and learning a foreign language
114 4.1.5 Description of some guiding principles and activities in a
language course for specific purposes 119 4.2. The knowledge of learners,
the knowledge of learning 125 4.2.1 The importance of sharing experiences
in learning 125 4.2.2 Significant learning experiences 126 4.3
Autobiographical experiential knowledge in teacher education and teacher
development 129 4.3.1 Autobiographical knowledge in teacher education and
teacher development 129 4.3.2 Autobiographical knowledge - reminisced
experience 135 4.4 References 137 Contents IX 5 What is it - (FL) teaching?
141 5.1 Approaching the questions of (FL) teaching 141 5.2 What is the
context of our questions about (FL) teaching? 151 5.3 A philosophically
well-grounded conception of man as a necessary basis for (FL) education 156
5.3.1 The underpinnings of a (FL) teacher's beliefs and actions 156 5.3.2 A
conception of man - the outcome of an ontological and an epistemological
analysis of man 159 5.4 Implications for (FL) education emerging from a
holistic conception of man 160 5.4.1 Education - practising of good living
160 5.4.2 Learning 161 5.4.3 Language 164 5.5 Language learning as learning
the art of open dialogue 167 5.5.1 The essence of the art of open dialogue
167 5.5.2 Learning and practising the art of open dialogue 170 5.6.
Conclusion 173 5.7 References 175 Index