INTEGRATED LANGUAGE LEARNING OF STANAG LEVEL 3

1. INTEGRATED LANGUAGE LEARNING OF STANAG LEVEL 3 Rita Lukėnienė Deputy Chief of Language Center NCO School, Kaunas Lithuania 4-7 October, 2004 Riga

2. “The annoyances of our professional life may prevent us from living our life fully; this may not by all means be bad”

3. “Though it’s a marathon it’s a sprint” WHAT IS IT?

4. Acquisition of language and knowledgeability

5. Integral interacting parts of learning process: • Language and meaning; • Language and thinking; • Learning and meaningful engagement; • Learning and interpersonal experience; • Interactive learning and meaningful context; • Meaningful learning and meaningful context; • Meaningful learning and learning environment; • Meaningful learning and authentic material.

6. LANGUAGE AND MEANING • Language is a matter of meaning • As we acquire new areas of knowledge we acquire new areas of language

7. LANGUAGE AND THINKING • Thinking is hard as is learning new knowledge through another language • The difficulty level goes up when we move from concrete to abstract even in our native language • Learning opportunities within a meaningful context promote level of understanding of concepts

8. LANGUAGE AND THINKING • Interpersonal experience • Instructional conversation • Instructional conversation is a vehicle for intellectual development and acquisition of concepts

9. VIBRANT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT • Pedagogical approach is: diversity variety practicing frequency internalization elaboration revision long–term memory (could you , please, make a sentence and give an answer?) • Practical approach

10. PROJECT WORK There is a lot of flexibility about project work. It can be: • adapted for many language classroom settings; • incorporated into the classroom work; • incorporated into a topic unit; • carried out in a short period of time; • extended over a few weeks; • introduced as a special sequence of activities; • a natural extension of what is already taking place in class. Good points about project work are that it: • creates learners community of inquiry involving authentic communication, cooperative learning and problem solving; • provides hands-on experience; • stimulates higher level thinking and responsibility; • reflects on the previous materials and reinforces the language. It is a versatile vehicle for fully integrated language and knowledge learning. And that is, again, what we are aspiring for.

11. CONTENT LEARNING ?

12. AUTHENTIC MATERIAL Breakthrough in the mastery of the target language

13. KNOWLEDGEABILITY and only then he is likely to gain STANAG LEVEL 3 CERTIFICATE the language learner widens his horizons and becomes a knowledgeable citizen who can integrate into the global society through sophisticated conceptual thinking through interpersonal experience through abundance of authentic material through contextualized real life situations Through diverse activities of meaningful engagement with the target language

14. LANGUAGE THINKING MEANING INTERPERSONAL EXPERIENCE MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT VIBRANT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATION MEANINGFUL CONTENT AUTHENTIC MATERIAL • Problem solving • Decision-making • Analysis • Critical thinking • Project work • The level of conceptual and linguistic difficulty ENLARGED UNDERSTANDING INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT ACQUISITION OF CONCEPTS KNOWLEDGEABILITY

15. “Don’t be so much grieved about the problems which seem to stick to you, in fact, what the fabric of life is made if not an uninterrupted string of problems to be solved”

16. “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from inside”

17. Thank you