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CALL SIG Symposium. Don Hinkelman Sapporo Gakuin University University of Melbourne 2007.11.23. Institutional Innovation What affordances led to innovation?. A Tale of Four Institutions Kanda University of Intl. Studies Sapporo Gakuin University Hokkaido University
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CALL SIG Symposium Don Hinkelman Sapporo Gakuin University University of Melbourne 2007.11.23
Institutional Innovation What affordances led to innovation? A Tale of Four Institutions Kanda University of Intl. Studies Sapporo Gakuin University Hokkaido University Keihoku High School
Common Strategies of Innovation From interviews and observations at four institutions • Forming collaborative teaching teams • Building blended learning platforms • Creating, configuring, and sharing multi-media teaching materials • Adopting action research approaches
Kanda University of International Studies:Collaborative Research Teams Seven research teams (5-8 teachers each) Proficiency Project I (BEPP English) Proficiency Project II (BEPP IC) Proficiency Project III (BEPP ILC) Proficiency Test Project (KEPT) Internet Research Project (IRP) Read/Write Skills Project Self-access Research (SRG)
Kanda University of International Studies:Blended learning spaces
Keihoku High School: Team teaching, Project Competitions Poster class assessment (Misumi, 2006)
Critical Questions? • What is a good language learning community? • What are the most authentic collaborative projects that both “educate” and teach a new language? And how decide/negotiate? • How create beginner/veteran teams, inside/outside exchanges, and multiple teacher/learner roles? • How mix face-to-face/paper/online technologies and configure the learning process? Is SLA a useful framework for modeling collaborative, blended language learning?
Ecology, not… inputs & outputs Environments, not… solitary learner Roles, not… cognition Actions/Norms, not… rules, skills, strategies Interfaces, not… textbooks Project-based learning, not… task-based learning Changes in Metaphors
Changes in Theories • Linguistic theories: SLI • Psychological theories: SLA • Socio-cultural theories: SLS
Intermediate Words Advanced Words Present Tense Present Perfect Tense Basic Words Past Tense And so on And so on Model of SLISecond Language Instruction • Grammar Progression • Vocabulary Progression Sage on the stage metaphor
Model of SLASecond Language Acquistion Information processing metaphor Inputs Processing Output Books Student Teaching Essays Speeches Test Answers Media
Shortcomings of SLA • Disregard of environment • Clumsy handling of roles and role-changing • Ignored spaces • Focus on single learner • Focus on psychological processes Need a theoretical framework that handles: Purposes/projects/actions/tasks: intentionality Roles: multiplicity, variable contexts Spaces: semiotics Communities/environments/collaborative groups: intersubjectivity, distributed cognition
VS NS NS NS NS NS VS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS T NS NS NS OB OV SS SS SS SS VS NS NS T NS NS SST T VS SS NS Model of SLSSecond Language Socialisation Learning Community: Sapporo Gakuin University ICC Class T=Teachers NS=Novices VS=Veteran Students OV=Outside Veterans SS=Sister School OB/OG=Alumni Ecological metaphor Kramsch (2002), Van Lier (2001, 2005)
Changes in Research Design • Experiments to Ethnographies • isolated variables to web of variables • Classroom to Institution • lone teacher to change-oriented teams • Agnostic to Critical • outsider observation to insider action research
Changes in Research Analysis How design a language learning environment? • Affordances • environments at the micro level - lessons, interfaces • environments at the macro level - institutional policies, spaces, programs • Semiotics • Human-machine-space hybrid networks • power imbalances • Relations/Actions • Agent oriented modeling (Gu, 2006) • Action-based learning (van Lier, 2007)
Conclusions How should language learning institutions innovate? • Form collaborative teaching teams • Build blended learning platforms • Design communities with multiple roles • Create, configure, and share multi-media teaching materials • Adopt action research approaches based on socio-cultural theories/SLS