Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Authentic materials (1)
- Communication (1)
- Conflict (1)
- Creative thinking (1)
- Deficit approach (1)
-
- Diglossia (1)
- Empathy (1)
- Fidelity (1)
- Language learning (1)
- Learner narratives. (1)
- Learning processes (1)
- Learning strategies (1)
- Linguistic imperialism (1)
- Linguistic practices (1)
- Monolingualism (1)
- Narrative (1)
- Narrative coherence (1)
- Narrative pedagogy (1)
- Narrative rationality (1)
- Narrativity (1)
- Negative bias (1)
- Personal narrative (1)
- Plurilingual pedagogy (1)
- Plurilingualism (1)
- Rationality (1)
- Reason (1)
- Self-efficacy (1)
- Skill (1)
- Social cognition (1)
- Story telling (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Education
Approaches To Narrative Instruction For Second Language Learners, Mathew Peters
Approaches To Narrative Instruction For Second Language Learners, Mathew Peters
MA TESOL Collection
Narratives have reemerged as a dominant form of rhetoric over the last fifty years. This dominant use of narrative discourse has only increased with the rise of social media. Walther Fisher (1987) proposed the narrative paradigm as a unifying theory of human communication. His major claim is that people are inherently storytellers and that people use a narrative rationality and a logic of good reasons to inform their beliefs, values, and actions. This paper utilizes his theories, along with recent findings in neuroscience, to establish an argument for greater inclusion of narratives into second language teaching. Narratives can have a …
A Teacher's Guide To Plurilingual Pedagogy, Elisabeth Wichser-Krajcik
A Teacher's Guide To Plurilingual Pedagogy, Elisabeth Wichser-Krajcik
MA TESOL Collection
Language teaching practices have been dominated by monolingual, deficit approaches in which students are expected to compartmentalize languages, ignore prior knowledge, and emulate how natives speak the target language—though there have also been many teachers who have challenged these approaches through the years. Plurilingualism and plurilingual pedagogy reject such ideas and practices and instead seek to cultivate linguistic repertoires (including partial or uneven skills across languages), engage prior knowledge and lived experience, and develop metalinguistic and metacognitive competencies. Drawing on decades of research in applied linguistics and associated fields, plurilingual pedagogy aims to teach language in a way that is …
Rethinking Language Teaching Methods And Materials, Matthew Barge
Rethinking Language Teaching Methods And Materials, Matthew Barge
MA TESOL Collection
With a vast number of people speaking and learning English all over the world, the English language has shifted from being a national language to an international language and finally into a global language. However, English is often taught in a very exclusive way in which English language learners are often times only introduced and exposed to the language practices of speakers who have historically held the most power and prestige in the English-speaking world. One result of this teaching methodology is that many English learners are being taught language practices that are not reflective of how various English speaking …