This two-day conference, supported by the Research SIG and hosted by Gediz University, will showcase teacher-research from across Turkey and beyond. Plenary speakers will include Anne Burns and Dick Allwright.
The call for proposals for talks and posters is now open. For this, and for further details of event, see the conference website. 'Teachers Research!’ will be a special day dedicated to research by teachers for teachers, with supportive insights from Dick Allwright and Anne Burns.
There’ll be opportunities to present, discuss, listen, learn and get feedback for: • people completely new to teacher-research (TR),* but interested in it; • people doing TR who'd like the opportunity to present informally and get some feedback (e.g. in a group / talking next to a poster to a few people); • people doing TR who’d like the opportunity to present relatively formally/conventionally and wouldn't mind some more public feedback; • people working with teachers who'd like to introduce them to TR, and who would like to discuss this informally or formally; • teacher educators already supporting teachers in TR, and wishing to share ideas and experience and get feedback; • people with ideas they want to discuss about what TR 'should' be like. More details here Date: 17 - 30 June, 2013 Guest moderator: Preet Hiradhar, Department of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Location: ReSIG YahooGroup Download article here This event is open to ReSIG members and non-members. You can join our YahooGroup for free here. How to participate:
- Join our YahooGroup at the link above. if you're not a member yet. - Download the article at the link above. - Read the article. - To help you get ready for the discussion, here are some possible questions, suggested by Preet, apart from ones you might have of your own: 1. The authors state that many nations have made large investments in terms of ICT in language learning. They also say that “it is likely that language learning classrooms [especially in developmental contexts] will be part of a move to increased technology use”. Do you see signs of these developments in your own context? 2. One of the significant findings that the authors report is that CALL research has focused on secondary schools and not much on primary schools. What do you think might be the reasons for this? Is the tertiary sector in developmental contexts under-researched? 3. The article reviews a large number of CALL studies involving the four skills. It reports however, that there seems to be a lack of correlation between skills development and Computer-mediated communication (CMC). Does this correspond to your own experience of skills development and CMC? 4. What role do learner and teacher attitudes play in the success of CALL interventions? How can these attitudes be accessed by teachers / researchers? 5. One of the interesting findings of the article is that most of the research in CALL seems to be driven by policy rather than influenced by educational or L2 acquisition theories. Is this necessarily a bad thing? 6. What do you think of the idea that it is time to move away from the binaries of ‘traditional’ and ‘computer-assisted classrooms’? Do you think research into mixed classrooms, combining teacher and computer-mediated learning, and the way they interact within a learning space would be more useful? 7. While most CALL research seems to be around the notions of usability and development, what about the possibility of probing it from a critical-theoretical perspective as well, e.g., sociological impact, cultural reception and negotiation etc? How can teachers and learners engage with such research? |
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