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Reflective Framework
Language and identity
Language Awareness
Discourse
Shot in the dark
100
See, hear, document, analyze and hypothesis test and act
What are steps in the inquiry process/framework
100
A social practice, more than a sign-signifier relationship
What is language
100
Names/ Nicknames Popular Culture References Gestures Turn-taking habits Ways of telling stories Languages in play Pronunciation of certain words
What are ways of exploring communicative repertoires/discourse in the language classroom?
100
Learners can be harmed by ideologies that assume this as good/bad, valid/not valid.
What is speech?
100
“Active, persistent, careful consideration of any belief or accepted form of knowledge in light of grounds that support it" (Dewey, 1910)
What is reflective thought?
200
Maximize content knowledge through prescribed activities. Maximize learning potential through problem-solving activities Maximize sociopolitical awareness through problem- posing activities
What are goals of teaching for teacher as transformative intellectual
200
Relational sociocultural phenomenon emerging in discourse, interaction, not just stable/fixed part of an individual.
What is identity?
200
Record dialect/language variation and local lexical usage. Examine Language ideologies Observe linguistic profiling, discrimination, power relations indexed through language. Reflection and research on language use.
What are ways to explore discourse/increase language awareness in the classroom (Alim)?
200
“Locally defined boundaries as discerned in classroom talk” that include: kinds of words, names, ways of speaking, gestures, turn-taking habits, and sometimes multiple languages (Rymes 2012 p. 539)
What are features of Discourse?
200
A nuanced understanding of learner goals, motives and efforts may lead to this.
What is investment?
300
Different types and levels of teacher questioning or student-student talk in the EFL class in Egypt
What is an example of hear
300
When we get learners to 'buy in' to and identify with the practices of the language classroom, we are increasing this.
What is investment?
300
Displaying oneself as more/less knowledgeable with language in classroom interaction in order to accommodate the repertoires of interlocutors.
What is passing?
300
What we acquire, people are “...apprenticed as part of their socializations within various local, state, and national groups and institutions outside early home and peer-group socialization,” e.g., clubs, churches, gangs, schools, offices..
What are secondary discourses?
300
The inverse of investment in language learning
What is resistance?
400
Teacher remains at the front of the room, mixed-gender classroom, students working in small groups, head-scarves, uniforms
What is an example of 'see'
400
Which emotion category is not necessarily aligned with investment in language learning practices?
What is motivation?
400
A cyclical approach to language education - Teaches the “power of words in context.”
What is Critical Language Awareness (CLA)?
400
Learners and teachers constantly negotiate these in the language learning/teaching process.
What are ideologies/beliefs?
400
Those spaces/communities learners aspire to join when they learn a new language. Can be historical or part of the imagination, how they see themselves/possibility for enhanced range of identities in the future...(Norton)
What are imagined communities?
500
Consider evidence gathered/hypothesis and suggest/plan strategies to resolve problems identified in the hypothesis testing phase
What is the ACT stage of reflection?
500
What we do to understand our world, our selves, give voice to our experiences and what we use to construct, define self/others.
What is language?
500
Distinctive ways of speaking/listening and often, too writing/reading coupled with distinctive ways of acting, interacting, valuing, feeling, dressing, thinking, believing with other people and with various objects, tools, and technologies, so as to enact specific socially recognizable identities engaged in specific social recognizable activities (Gee, pp. 152).
What is Discourse?
500
More developed in some social realms, less developed in others depending on who we're speaking to.
What are communicative repertoires? (ways of doing Discourse)
500
A learner’s potential response to how they are positioned socially/by those in institutions/society, especially when such positioning is unfavorable.
What is resistance?