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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:10:50
From: Jennifer Hill [tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com]
Subject: Obstacles and enablers in language education: lessons from a new national curriculum

 
Obstacles and enablers in language education: lessons from a new national curriculum 

Date: 29-Jan-2021 - 29-Jan-2021 
Location: Online (hosted by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Italy 
Contact: Jennifer Hill 
Contact Email: tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

''Obstacles and enablers in language education: lessons from a new national
curriculum''

In order to inform a new curriculum for schools, in 2017 the Welsh government
commissioned a report to assess the relative effectiveness of second language
teaching approaches (Fitzpatrick et al 2018). In this session we will examine
key findings from that study, from the specific - effectiveness of singing,
TV, or robots in classrooms - to the general, including the necessary
environmental conditions for language learning. We will explore the
psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, educational and affective factors that were
found to be more influential than any teaching methods or approaches. Using
vocabulary instruction as a focus, we will consider the practical implications
of these findings for teachers, learners and assessors. The new curriculum
itself, to be launched in 2022, is ambitious, with a focus on plurilingual
exploration and curiosity; in closing we consider how this might be
represented in the classroom and what the effect might be on the student’s
experience of language learning.

Tess Fitzpatrick is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Swansea University,
where she is Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Director of the
Language Research Centre. Tess’ research in vocabulary, second language
acquisition, and testing is informed by her early career as an EFL teacher and
teacher trainer. Pioneering a new methodology for lexical investigation, she
has extended her research from language education to ageing, dementia, and
healthcare contexts. Tess was Chair of the British Association for Applied
Linguistics 2015-2018. In 2017 she was awarded Fellowship of the Academy of
Social Sciences for her work in lexical studies and in widening understanding
of cognitive processes in language learning and education.
 






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