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‘I felt that I do live in the UK now’: international students’ self-reports of their English language speaking experiences on a pre-sessional programme / Fiona Copland and Sue Garton
// Language and education 2011, Vol25, N.3 2011p. 241-255 This article focuses on the English language experiences of a group of pre-sessional students, an under-represented group in the literature on language and education. In particular, it investigates the opportunities that such students have to use English out-side the classroom, shown to be a key factor in student satisfaction with their study abroad experience. Drawing on data from questionnaires, interviews and on-line di-aries, we show that students have a variety of opportunities to use English; however, these opportunities may require students to engage in complex negotiations right from the beginning of their sojourn in the UK. Micro-analysis of the data shows that agency is a key construct in understanding students’ representations of their English encounters as they begin their lives in the UK. The article concludes with some suggestions as to how pre-sessional courses may develop students’ linguistic and socio-cultural skills in order that they may interact successfully in English outside the classroom
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Autobiographical narrative in a language classroom: a case study in a outh African school / Vuyisile Msila
// Language and education 2012, Vol26, N.5 2012p. 233-244 There are still many South African teachers who are challenged by the implementation of the relatively new system of education. They have to explore a variety of strategies as they try to transform their pedagogy to enhance learning in their classrooms. This post-apartheid system also challenges educators to be transformative individuals who unveil learning opportunities for their pupils. Furthermore, as they attempt to transform their teaching, they ought to assess their own practice on a continuous basis. Ideally, this means that concepts such as teacher research and reflection will be instrumental in enabling South African teachers to attain the goals of the post-apartheid curriculum. This paper focuses on a case study which explores the professional journey of one (English second language) teacher who tried to improve his teaching by using the autobiographical narrative as well as journal writing strategies. Mr. Poni had been teaching for 10 years when he came across the idea of using autobiographical narrative to enhance his teaching of (mainly) English literature in his Grade 12 classes. This study h findings reveal that reflection does lead to better action. Poni discovered that it was through the sharing of experiences with colleagues and his pupils that he became aware of various aspects he had previously overlooked. This study also confirms the invaluable nature of the autobiographical narrative, as well as the concept of teacher as researcher. It was also through the utilisation of the narrative that Poni was able to be critical of his own teaching practice
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Critical thinking in the context of Chinese postgraduate students’ thesis writing: a positioning theory perspective / Shi Pu, Michael Evans
// Language, Culture and Curriculum Volume 32, No 1/2019 2019p. 50-62 While research exists on the effectiveness of pedagogical methods in relation to the development of Chinese students’ critical thinking (CT), there has been little research on Chinese students’ experiences around CT in relation to their own contexts. This paper reports on the findings of a study that investigated the experiences of the use of CT by 29 Chinese postgraduate students studying in a range of contexts in China and the UK. All student participants were engaged in second language education at Master’s level. Data were collected mainly through ethnographic interviews and analysed within the framework of positioning theory. The findings reveal that the students’ use of CT skills was not only a demonstration of ability but also a consequence of their positioning. In the context of thesis writing, the students’ positioning was exercised as perceived rights and duties regarding knowledge, directed by their own goals for personal development. The study has implications for research and teaching of CT in cross-cultural contexts
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EFL young learners: their imagined communities and language learning / Su Yon Yim.
// ELT journal. 2016, Vol. 70, No. 1. 2016.p. 57-65. This study explored how South Korean primary school students approach learning English, using the notion of an ‘imagined community’. Twenty students from two primary schools were selected for semi-structured interviews. The data analysis shows that the construction of South Korean students’ imagined communities seems to be influenced mainly by their learning experiences outside school which involve private lessons, English test systems, and parental attitudes towards English, and an emphasis on grammar teaching and learning. The students’ imagined communities are far from the one presented in the national primary curriculum, which focuses on communicative language teaching (CLT). This gap results in students’ poor engagement in the classroom when taking English lessons at state schools. This indicates that educational reform such as CLT needs to be implemented with recognition of students’ learning outside school and the imagined communities envisioned by students.
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