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How to teach an additional language : to task or not to task?
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ISBN: 9789027210968 9789027210951 9789027257888 9027210950 9027257884 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles.


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Onderwijs voor de 21ste eeuw : een boek voor leerkrachten en ouders
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ISBN: 9789462922853 9462922853 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leuven Acco

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De wereld verandert razendsnel. Moet ons onderwijs dan ook niet veranderen? Leren onze kinderen op school nog wel de cruciale dingen die ze nodig hebben in de maatschappij van de 21ste eeuw? Ons onderwijs is voortreffelijk, maar het werkt niet even goed voor alle leerlingen. Hoe kan ons onderwijs ervoor zorgen dat alle leerlingen zich volwaardig ontwikkelen en zich goed voelen op school? Wat is de rol van de leerkracht? En wat is de rol van ouders? En moeten we nu massaal computers en tablets in onze klassen invoeren? Dit boek biedt een antwoord op de grote vragen over het onderwijs van de 21ste eeuw. Geschreven in een heldere taal, opgefrist met concrete ideeën uit de onderwijspraktijk en overgoten met een stevige dosis optimisme. Want ons onderwijs is uitstekend maar het kan nog beter. Beter aangepast aan de moderne tijden, beter voor leerlingen en hun ouders, beter voor leerkrachten. Onderwijs voor de 21ste eeuw is een must voor iedereen die geeft om de kwaliteit van ons onderwijs. Iedereen dus.

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Primary education --- Secondary education --- Onderwijsvernieuwing --- Leraar --- Onderwijsfilosofie --- 21e eeuw --- Onderwijs en maatschappij --- 450.46 --- Competenties --- Duurzaamheid --- Evaluatie --- Leraren --- Leren --- Onderwijskwaliteit --- Ontwikkeling van kinderen --- evalueren --- krachtige leeromgeving --- onderwijskunde --- onderwijsvernieuwing --- Evalueren --- Inclusief onderwijs --- Leerstrategieën --- onderwijsfilosofie --- onderwijsvisie --- onderwijskwaliteit --- onderwijsstrategieën --- # BIBC : Academic collection --- Onderwijsfilosofie (Onderwijsvisie) --- Onderwijsstrategieën --- Onderwijsvisie --- 371.012 --- 371.012 Onderwijsresearch. Methoden voor onderwijs --- Onderwijsresearch. Methoden voor onderwijs --- Theoretische onderwijsvernieuwing --- theoretische onderwijsvernieuwing --- onderwijsonderzoek --- 720 Onderwijs --- Education --- Twenty-first century --- 37.01 --- onderwijs --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- pedagogie --- onderwijspraktijk --- 37 --- 21st century --- Third millennium --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Onderwijs ; theoretische beschouwingen --- Onderwijsvernieuwing. --- Onderwijsvisie. --- Onderwijsstrategieën. --- Onderwijsfilosofie (Onderwijsvisie). --- Sociology of education --- Teacher education. Teacher's profession --- School management --- interactief onderwijs --- lerarenberoep --- evaluatie (onderwijs) --- onderwijsbeleid --- onderwijsorganisatie --- lerarenopleiding --- motiverend onderwijs --- anno 2000-2099


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TBLT as a researched pedagogy
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ISBN: 9027263728 9789027263728 9789027201218 9789027201201 9027201218 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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"Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research. A defining part of the TBLT project has always been a dual concern - both with the nature and use of tasks in language teaching, and with empirical research to guide and support classroom practitioners, the two concerns suggesting a central and reciprocal relationship between research and pedagogy. However this relationship has at times been unbalanced, and its centrality has sometimes gone by default, problems which this volume aims to address. The introduction proposes criteria to improve the congruence between the research base of TBLT and the concerns and terms of reference of classroom practitioners. Using a range of methodologies, the individual chapters illustrate and explore different aspects of this theme. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to further their understanding of - and/or investigate - the use of TBLT in educational contexts"--


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Tasks in action : task-based language education from a classroom-based perspective
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ISBN: 1282414356 9786612414350 1443815241 9781443815246 9781847182432 1847182437 9781282414358 6612414359 Year: 2007 Publisher: Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars,

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Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been gaining momentum around the world during the past twenty years. However, particularly lacking in the body of available publications on TBLT is empirical evidence of the actual activity, interaction and learning


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"Turkish is not for learning, Miss." : Valorizing linguistic diversity in primary education
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Letteren

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Paving the Way for Adolescent L2 Learners: Language learning through meaningful activities inside 'and' outside the school?
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Letteren

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For second language (L2) learners, proficiency in the language of schooling is a prerequisite for educational success. This is particularly challenging for recently-arrived L2 learners attending special newcomer classes, who lack opportunities for authentic spoken or written communication with native speakers. Well-designed out-of-school programs, with the potential for, for instance, authentic communication, autonomy and collaboration, might serve to increase newcomers' opportunities for practice in the L2. Moreover, outside-school environments might offer additional language learning potential.In this dissertation, we have investigated in five experimental studies if and how inside-school and out-of-school settings may promote newcomers’ L2 writing and speaking skills. To this end, we set up two interventions in which newcomers participated in meaning-activities and multimodal composition. On the one hand, we examined the language development and the learning potential that resulted from participation in the project in a task-based classroom setting, in which teachers assisted the language learners to reach their goals. On the other hand, we examined the language development and the learning potential that resulted from participation in the project in an outside-school leisure time environment.Studies 1, 2 and 3 compared the differential effects of both interventions on L2 development. In particular, the studies examined the impact on newcomers' communicative effectiveness, complexity, accuracy and fluency in speaking and writing in Dutch as an L2.Study 1 (N=83) showed stronger speaking development between pretest and posttest for learners in both intervention groups compared to a control group. In particular, the in-school group outperformed the control group and the outside-school group on several measures (communicative effectiveness, complexity, lexical diversity). The outside-school group outperformed the control group and the in-school group regarding fluency.The second study (N=56) measured L2 speaking development longitudinally on a separate, more informal test by way of latent growth modelling instead of by pre/posttest-design. Study 2 confirmed the first study's findings for more informal speaking development: Again, learners in the in-school setting showed greater development than those in the out-of-school setting, on several measures except for one fluency measure.Study 3 (N=84) showed greater L2 writing development for learners in both intervention groups compared to those in a control group, on multiple measures. However, there were no significant differences in L2 writing development between the intervention groups.Study 4 and 5 assessed the extent to which the inside- and outside-school environments were beneficial for L2 acquisition. Study 4 showed that, the teachers' (N=4) practices were frequently supportive of language learning and fairly consistent in this support. Implementation of a task-based approach was particularly successful for core principles which relate to ‘Focus on Meaning’, ‘Focus on Form’ and ‘Provide Input and Opportunities for Output’.The final study, Study 5, investigated the ways in which L2 acquisition was supported by the outside-school coaches (N=9). The findings showed that, on the whole, the coaches focused on meaning and provided input and opportunities for producing output. However, overall, the coaches rarely supported the supplementary language learning potential of the environment. Moreover, their support was inconsistent over different activities during the intervention.All in all, the findings indicate that the interventions in both settings could promote beginner L2 learners' language acquisition (writing development in particular) but that an inside-school environment may be better suited to promote speaking skills, with the exception of fluency. To promote fluency, an outside-school environment may be more suitable. Most probably, the positive gains in both settings are the result of the fact that both settings provided input and opportunities to produce output in the target language, while working towards a motivating, goal-oriented project. The differences between the settings may be a result of the unique ways in which each setting promotes language learning: the teachers inside schools typically combine a focus on meaning and focus on form, and the coaches in an outside-school environment typically focusing on meaning. Furthermore, the consistent implementation of the teachers and the inconsistent support of the coaches for the language potential of their respective environment, may have played a role in the interventions’ differential effects on speaking development.

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Adventures in red ink : effectiveness of corrective feedback in digital game-based language learning
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ISBN: 9789461972071 Year: 2014 Publisher: Zelzate Leuven Uitgeverij University Press KU Leuven. Faculteit Letteren

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Both in second and foreign language (L2) teaching environments and in digital games, feedback is considered indispensable as well as a powerful device to support learning. However, the state of affairs in the fields of second language acquisition and educational psychology shows that the effects of corrective (negative) feedback (CF) are not univocal, and suggests that the effectiveness of CF in digital game-based language learning is likely to depend on the following factors: the type of CF (explicit or implicit), how learning is measured (as the development of explicit or implicit L2 knowledge), and individual differences related to learners receptivity to CF, namely perceived usefulness of CF and intrinsic motivation. The current PhD project investigates the complex interplay between these factors both from a theoretical point of view and empirically, and in a highly interdisciplinary way, combining insights from the literatures of second language acquisition, computer-assisted language learning (CALL; by itself a highly interdisciplinary undertaking), educational psychology and technology, motivational psychology, and game studies.Subsequent to the general introduction (chapter 1) and the theoretical study (chapter 2), this dissertation presents the results of four empirical studies with prototypes of digital game-based experiences engineered for the instruction and practice of English as a L2. These were evaluated mainly in the context of secondary education.The first empirical study (chapter 3) explores the role of individual differences vis-à-vis CF types in a 3D immersive game designed for the instruction of English pragmatics. It shows that learners (N=83) found explicit CF more useful than more implicit CF, and that the perceived usefulness of explicit CF correlated positively with parameters of motivation. The second empirical study (chapter 4) investigates learners (N=36) use of explicit metalinguistic CF in a written interactive murder mystery, and cannot present any evidence that perceived usefulness predicted CF use; there was a strong positive association, however, between CF use and prior metalinguistic knowledge. The third and fourth empirical studies focus on the effectiveness of grammar practice with CF in mini-games. The third study (chapter 5) found that vivid CF, adapted to the fantasy of the game concept, affected learners (N=32) intrinsic motivation positively, which was related to their willingness to practise more. The fourth empirical chapter (chapter 6) reports on the effects of grammar practice on L2 learning in a two-month study, comprising one month of practice. The results indicate that intensive practice supported by mini-games and CF helped learners (N=125; control group N=61) to develop L2 grammar knowledge that was useful for their performance on various transfer tasks (both near and far transfer). Moreover, the effects of explicit metalinguistic CF were, by and large, stronger than the effects of CF which did not include any metalinguisticexplanation; this finding did not apply to learners performance on a complex spoken language task.The final chapter of this dissertation (chapter 7) discusses the main findings, and presents directions for future research. The results of this project bode well for the design of powerful technology-mediated language learning spaces which seek to engage learners by drawing on their gaming experience or interest, and which are aimed at supporting learners in mastering the conventions of formal language use.

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