French as a Second Language Teaching: Identifying Methods that Improve Adult Learners’ Competencies


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French as a Second Language Teaching Identifying Methods that Im

 
New Pedagogical Trends 
Additionally, the existence of other pedagogical measures for improving FSL teaching in 
Canadian institutions indicate that there is considerable interest in this problem. According to 
Van Olphen (2008), both Shulman’s concepts of Content Knowledge (CK) and Pedagogical 
Content Knowledge (PCK) and Mishra & Koehler’s concept of Technological Pedagogical 


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Content Knowledge (TPCK) are used as springboards to frame these modifications to theories 
and discussions on current foreign language education. The relationship between students’ 
proficiency and teachers’ effectiveness with French literacy has been the focus of significant 
research. A long-standing controversy in language education has to do with whether languages 
can be acquired, or merely learned, in the classroom. Brown (1980), McLaughlin (1987), and 
Gregg (1987) maintained that both learning and acquisition may occur in classrooms. 
Meanwhile, Krashen and Terrell (1983) stated that acquisition can occur only in natural settings 
but later admitted that “despite our conclusion that language teaching is directed at learning and 
not acquisition, we think that it is possible to encourage acquisition very effectively in the 
classroom” (p. 27). Krashen and Terrell (1983) agree and believe that the key question facing 
language educators is to develop appropriate methods and resources best suited to enabling L2 
learners to acquire to some extent a certain level of communicative proficiency appropriate to 
their interest and competency. Finally, according to Smith & Renzulli (1984), effective 
instruction reaches out to all students, not just those with one learning style. Students taught 
entirely with methods antithetical to their learning style may be made too uncomfortable to learn 
effectively, but they should have at least some exposures to those methods to develop a full 
range of learning skills and strategies. 

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