Transcript Rita Lukėnienė Deputy Chief of Language Center NCO School, Kaunas Lithuania INTEGRATED LANGUAGE LEARNING OF STANAG LEVEL 3 4-7 October, 2004 Riga “The annoyances of our professional life may.

Rita Lukėnienė
Deputy Chief of Language Center
NCO School, Kaunas
Lithuania
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE
LEARNING OF STANAG LEVEL 3
4-7 October, 2004
Riga
“The annoyances of our
professional life may prevent us
from living our life fully;
this may not by all means be bad”
“Though it’s a marathon
it’s a sprint”
WHAT IS IT?
Acquisition of language and
knowledgeability
Integral interacting parts of learning
process:
• Language and meaning;
• Language and thinking;
• Learning and meaningful engagement;
• Learning and interpersonal experience;
• Interactive learning and meaningful context;
• Meaningful learning and meaningful context;
• Meaningful learning and learning environment;
• Meaningful learning and authentic material.
LANGUAGE AND MEANING
• Language is a matter of meaning
• As we acquire new areas of
knowledge we acquire new areas
of language
LANGUAGE AND THINKING
• Thinking is hard as is learning new
knowledge through another language
• The difficulty level goes up when we move
from concrete to abstract even in our
native language
• Learning opportunities within a meaningful
context promote level of understanding of
concepts
LANGUAGE AND THINKING
• Interpersonal experience
• Instructional conversation
• Instructional conversation is a vehicle for
intellectual development and acquisition of
concepts
VIBRANT LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
• Pedagogical approach is:
diversity variety practicing frequency
internalization elaboration revision
long–term memory
(could you , please, make a sentence and give an answer?)
• Practical approach
PROJECT WORK
There is a lot of flexibility about project work.
It can be:
• adapted for many language classroom settings;
• incorporated into the classroom work;
•Good
incorporated
a topic
unit; work are that it:
points into
about
project
• carried out in a short period of time;
• creates learners community of inquiry involving authentic
• extended
overcooperative
a few weeks;
communication,
learning and problem solving;
•• introduced
as a experience;
special sequence of activities;
provides hands-on
• stimulates
level thinking
a natural higher
extension
of whatand
is responsibility;
already taking place in class.
It
a versatile
vehicle
for
fully
integrated
• is
reflects
on the previous
materials
and
reinforces
the language.
language and knowledge learning. And that is,
again, what we are aspiring for.
CONTENT LEARNING
?
AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
Breakthrough in the mastery
of the target language
KNOWLEDGEABILITY
and only then he is likely to gain
STANAG LEVEL 3 CERTIFICATE
the language learner widens his horizons and becomes a
knowledgeable citizen who can integrate into the global society
through sophisticated conceptual thinking
through interpersonal experience
through abundance of authentic material
through contextualized real life situations
Through diverse activities of meaningful engagement with the target
language
LANGUAGE
THINKING
MEANING
INTERPERSONAL EXPERIENCE
MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT
VIBRANT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
INSTRUCTIONAL CONVERSATION
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Problem solving
Decision-making
Analysis
Critical thinking
Project work
MEANINGFUL CONTENT
AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
1.
ENLARGED UNDERSTANDING
INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
ACQUISITION OF CONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGEABILITY
The level of conceptual and
linguistic difficulty
“Don’t be so much grieved about the
problems which seem to stick to you,
in fact, what the fabric of life is made if
not an uninterrupted string of
problems to be solved”
“No one can persuade another
to change. Each of us guards a
gate of change that can only
be opened from inside”
Thank you