Search results

1

Teaching Languages Remotely: Issues, Hurdles and Successes

100%

Pichette F., Gagné N.

Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium

|

2022

|

issue 1

81-97

PL

Pandemia COVID-19 zmusiła niezliczone uczelnie i uniwersytety na całym świecie do przejścia na nauczanie zdalne, a wielu nauczycieli językowa prowadziło swoje kursy w zwykły sposób, choć zdalnie. To synchroniczne rozwiązanie było motywowane pilnością sytuacji, ale także powszechnym przekonaniem, że języków nie można efektywnie uczyć się bez jednoczesnej obecności nauczyciela i innych uczniów. Jednak nowe technologie, którymi dysponujemy, w coraz większym stopniu obalają ten mit, sprawiając, że asynchroniczne nauczanie języków jest bardzo wydajne pomimo szeregu wyzwań. Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia dane z Université TÉLUQ, najstarszego na świecie francuskojęzycznego uniwersytetu, gdzie nauczanie prowadzone jest na odległość, od ponad 40 lat oferującego zdalne kursy językowe w środowisku mniejszości, a mianowicie we francuskojęzycznej prowincji, która znajduje się w anglojęzycznej Ameryce Północnej. Przedstawiamy wyzwania stawiane przez nauczanie asynchroniczne w systemie zdalnym oraz różne rozwiązania mające na celu obejście lub przezwyciężenie tych wyzwań.

EN

The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless colleges and universities worldwide to switch to online teaching, and many language instructors delivered their course content the usual way but remotely. This synchronous solution was motivated by the urgency of the situation but also by the common belief that languages cannot be learned efficiently without the simultaneous presence of the teacher and other learners. However, new technologies at our disposal increasingly dispel this myth by rendering asynchronous language teaching very efficient despite a few challenges. This paper presents data from Université TÉLUQ, the world's oldest French-speaking distance university, offering remote language courses for more than 40 years in a minority setting, namely a French-speaking province in English-speaking North America. We present challenges posed by teaching asynchronously in remote settings and various solutions to circumvent or overcome these challenges.

2

Age effects on the acquisition of nominal and verbal inflections in an instructed setting

88%

Pfenninger S. E.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

|

2011

|

vol. 1

|

issue 3

401-420

EN

This study examines evidence for the hypothesis (e.g., Muñoz, 2006) that an early starting age is not necessarily more beneficial to the successful learning of L2 inflectional morphology in strictly formal instructional settings. The present author investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the production and reception of 5 selected inflectional morphemes in English written performance and competence tasks by 100 early classroom learners and 100 late classroom learners of the same age. While an earlier age of first exposure and a longer instructional period was not associated with higher accuracy scores, the findings suggest distinct patterns in the productive and receptive knowledge abilities of inflectional morphology; the late classroom learners’ superiority seems to be rooted in their greater reliance upon memory-based item-by-item associative learning, as they are significantly stronger on tasks that might cause semantic difficulties, whereas the early classroom learners are marginally better on pattern-based processes for certain morphemes. This finding possibly supports Ullman’s (2005) proposal that, as procedural memory declines with age, older starters have difficulty in discovering regularities in the input and thus over-rely on the declarative memory system in L2 learning.

3

Age effects on the acquisition of nominal and verbal inflections in an instructed setting

88%

Pfenninger S. E.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

|

2011

|

vol. 1

|

issue 3

401-420

EN

This study examines evidence for the hypothesis (e.g., Muñoz, 2006) that an early starting age is not necessarily more beneficial to the successful learning of L2 inflectional morphology in strictly formal instructional settings. The present author investigated the quantitative and qualitative differences in the production and reception of 5 selected inflectional morphemes in English written performance and competence tasks by 100 early classroom learners and 100 late classroom learners of the same age. While an earlier age of first exposure and a longer instructional period was not associated with higher accuracy scores, the findings suggest distinct patterns in the productive and receptive knowledge abilities of inflectional morphology; the late classroom learners’ superiority seems to be rooted in their greater reliance upon memory-based item-by-item associative learning, as they are significantly stronger on tasks that might cause semantic difficulties, whereas the early classroom learners are marginally better on pattern-based processes for certain morphemes. This finding possibly supports Ullman’s (2005) proposal that, as procedural memory declines with age, older starters have difficulty in discovering regularities in the input and thus over-rely on the declarative memory system in L2 learning.

4

Learning Japanese Onomatopoeia through a Narrative-Evaluation E-Learning System

88%

Li X.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

|

2021

|

vol. 7

|

issue 2

155-175

EN

In Japanese, onomatopoeia are an important element in expressing feelings and experiences. They are difficult for students of Japanese to acquire, especially the nuances. Herein, we propose an e-learning system to improve the efficiency of teaching the nuances – both explicit and tacit – to non-native speakers of Japanese in three steps. We synthesized a new learning strategy available to students leaning Japanese onomatopoeia using narrative strategies to mimic the learning methods used by native speakers. This was achieved by firstly teaching the formal rules representing the explicit nuances. Secondly, the students created new onomatopoeic words by utilizing those formal rules. Finally, feedback was provided by evaluating the onomatopoeias created through the support system of narrative strategies to provide implicit teaching. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and the learning system, we conducted an experiment involving two groups of subjects. While Group A got feedback about the appropriateness of their onomatopoeic constructions from the native speakers’ narrative interpretations, Group B just reviewed the database material like in a traditional classroom. Results indicate our e-learning system has a significant effect on the acquisition of a working understanding of onomatopoeia.

5

Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas

75%

Komorowska H.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

|

2013

|

vol. 3

|

issue 4

463-482

EN

The author analyses tendencies presented in recently launched EU reports claiming that newly published data reveal a need to rethink approaches to individual and social multilingualism. In the first part of the article approaches to individual as well as to societal multilingualism are discussed from a historical perspective. In the second part meanings ascribed to the promotion of multilingualism are analysed from the language perspective together with the use made of them in the field of social and political activity. Promoting multilingualism is then looked at from the perspectives of the learner and the teacher. Implications are finally sought for teaching, learning and assessment in language education.

6

Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas

75%

Komorowska H.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

|

2013

|

vol. 3

|

issue 4

463-482

EN

The author analyses tendencies presented in recently launched EU reports claiming that newly published data reveal a need to rethink approaches to individual and social multilingualism. In the first part of the article approaches to individual as well as to societal multilingualism are discussed from a historical perspective. In the second part meanings ascribed to the promotion of multilingualism are analysed from the language perspective together with the use made of them in the field of social and political activity. Promoting multilingualism is then looked at from the perspectives of the learner and the teacher. Implications are finally sought for teaching, learning and assessment in language education.

7

Die Text-Bild-Kombination Filmplakat

71%

Badstübner-Kizik C.

Convivium. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen

|

2013

55-84

PL

Niniejszy artykuł jest poświęcony plakatowi filmowemu stanowiącemu specyficzny związek słowa i obrazu. Szczególny nacisk położono na podkreślenie funkcji i struktury, jak również na percepcję oraz recepcję tego szczególnego medium reklamowego. W dalszej części artykułu naszkicowano zakres możliwych zastosowań plakatu filmowego w dydaktyce języka obcego oraz kultury obcojęzycznej. Jako stosunkowo zwięzły, językowo oraz kulturowo autentyczny, a tym samym również silnie motywujący środek dydaktyczny, plakat filmowy może zająć ważne miejsce m. in. w kształtowaniu sprawności językowych, umiejętności odkrywania treści kulturowych i kształtowaniu świadomości medialnej.

EN

The paper discusses film posters as specific combinations of linguistic and pictorial signs. Bearing in mind that film posters are advertising media for special purposes, attention is paid to their function, structure and the processes involved in their perception. In the final part, the paper brings the didactic potential of film posters into focus. As a means of teaching and learning, which in terms of size and accessibility is relatively well manageable and provides authentic language and culture input, film posters can prove very motivating. In context of reading and communication skills as well as culture learning and media awareness, they should claim a firm place in foreign language and culture education.

DE

Der Beitrag beschreibt das mediale Format Filmplakat als spezifische Text-Bild-Kombination, wobei im Besonderen auf Funktion, Struktur sowie involvierte Perzeptions- und Rezeptionsvorgänge dieses besonderen Werbeträgers eingegangen wird. Anschließend wird das sprach- und kulturdidaktische Potenzial von Filmplakaten skizziert. Als überschaubares, sprachlich und kulturell sehr authentisches und damit potenziell motivierendes Unterrichtsmittel können Filmplakate u. a. im Kontext des Fertigkeitentrainings, des kulturentdeckenden Lernens und des Medienbewusstseins einen Platz im Fremdsprachenunterricht beanspruchen.

Refine search results

4 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

1 Convivium. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen

1 Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium

1 Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

1 2022

1 2021

3 2013

2 2011

2 Komorowska H.

2 Pfenninger S. E.

1 Badstübner-Kizik C.

1 Gagné N.

1 Li X.

1 Pichette F.

Teaching Languages Remotely: Issues, Hurdles and Successes

Age effects on the acquisition of nominal and verbal inflections in an instructed setting

Age effects on the acquisition of nominal and verbal inflections in an instructed setting

Learning Japanese Onomatopoeia through a Narrative-Evaluation E-Learning System

Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas

Multilingualism: Its open and hidden agendas

Die Text-Bild-Kombination Filmplakat