Key words: principles, pedagogical principles, young learners, language teaching, teachers, pupils Annatatsiya
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Odina the main pedogogical principles (2)
CONCLUSION
There has always been a tendency, on the part of the teacher, to claim superiority over his or her students and, consequently, to lose sight of his or her role in class. The teacher who evinces these characteristics keeps on blaming the students for their aberrant behaviour and "unsatisfactory" performance; he hardly ever bothers to make a probe of the students' cognitive, emotional and psychological background. He is an arrogant automaton who asserts his authority over his socially unauthorized, impotent and inferior students in a most undemocratic, uncivilized way; an "educated" person who supposedly strives to inculcate values and ideals but who is "conspicuous by her absence" when it comes to fostering feeling and creative thinking. This arrogant, unapproachable figure, with his high-falutin ideas and pompous language, is as often as not a formidable barrier to language learning. Not only his personality and his intellectual and linguistic abilities but also such paralinguistic features as facial expressions and bodily position in the classroom may exert an immensely negative influence on the student's cognition and affect. Experiments have proved that four bodily positions of the teacher, i.e. left /right, front / back, elevated / non-elevated, and standing / seated, have each been associated with a certain degree of social dominance. For example, a teacher who, most of the time in class, is standing, elevated and occupies the foreground on the right side, is perceived to be dominant. The data indicated that 75% of the time the elevated person was perceived as dominant and only 29% of the time the non-elevated person was considered so. Similarly 61% of the time the standing person was perceived as dominant. We can imagine what a real strain on the pupils this must be. Consciously or unconsciously, the teacher's posture and facial expressions exude a certain air or mood which often builds up tension and aggravates interaction between teachers and students, and among students themselves. This discrepancy between "bad mood" and the educational objectives relating to cognitive development and emotional equilibrium is in itself pernicious and unprepossessing to cope with, mainly on the part of the student. How can the student feel secure and confident in a hostile, unpredictable environment, in which he / she is to be "seen but not heard"? Folktales always play very important roles in the processes of language learning because folktales usually contain repetitive language patterns, phrases, or questions, refrains, strong rhythm and rhyme, sequences of numbers or days of the week. For example, repetitive patterns can be the schema for students' comprehension of the children's stories and predicting the action in the plot and the ending (Allen, 1989; Nodelman, 1996). In addition, folktales make it easy for students to remember the vocabulary and grammatical structures contained in them (Kowalski, 2002). Additionally, with repeated refrains, it's natural for learners to join in enchanting rhyming and that can help them be familiar with sound patterns and thus increase their listening ability. Among folktales, The Gingerbread Man is a good, cumulative story, because the important feature of cumulative stories is that elements (things, people or experiences) are added as the story progresses, through stories, with a degree of familiarity students naturally have certain expectations of story structure, language and patterns. For example, the cumulative story with a repetitive pattern is like The Gingerbread Man: I've run away from a little old woman, a little old man, and a cow... I've run away from a little old woman, a little old man, a cow, and a horse. The recurring phrases or events can aid their understanding and memory. Because of their particular story patterns, cumulative stories can also offer children the chances to engage in language play by chanting or singing the repeated story events as follows: Run, run, as fast as you can You can’t catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man. Through hearing stories, students can learn to appreciate the beauty and rhythm of language. Teachers are usually amazed at how quickly children "chime in" when a story has a refrain such as Three Little Pigs: Little Pig, Little Pig, let me come in! Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin! Another story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, has rhythmic refrain as follows: Trip,trap; Trip,trap; Trip, trap," went Little Billy Goat Gruff's hooves on the bridge. These rhythmic refrains above, obviously, are easily memorized when students chant or sing together. Based on review, when children listen to stories, verse, prose of all kinds, they could unconsciously be familiar with the repeated rhythms and structure, the cadences and conventions of the various forms of written language (Chalmers, 1973). This phonemic awareness is a formalized extension of the language awareness that has been developed at the first level through listening to repetitive language patterns or rhythmic refrains from stories, poetry, rhyme, and songs (Nantz, 2002) Folktales are a good tool for young learners' language learning. Folktales such s Three Little Pigs. is a picture book from the Reading House series, published by Caves Books Ltd in Taiwan. The series of classical tales introduce basic structures, sentence patterns, and common vocabulary regularly recycled for easy acquisition. Multiple Teaching Techniques.Multiple teaching techniques include presenting the picture book, using flash cards, showing sentence stripes, playing puppets for story drama, playing the chosen story CD, reading aloud, role play, choral speaking/chanting, and singing songs with action. Pedagogical principles at the School of Teacher Education are based on three elements: creating learning through meaningful learning activities building learning partnerships in order to create new knowledge utilising digital technologies and environments to support these two above. The first two principles create the methodological basis of learning and guidance, whereas various digital tools and resources support meaningful learning. Digital technology provides an opportunity for interaction and joint knowledge creation that is independent of time and place. Digital resources also provide an opportunity for more extensive, diverse and up-to-date information seeking. Section ‘Defining pedagogical principles’ highlighted a versatile understanding ofthe key concepts of this research. The data reflected many of these: fundamentalassumptions, moral rules, basic generalizations, and beliefs emerged. Although manycategories and their qualitatively different subcategories were like ‘maxims foraction’, they had an explicit connection to praxis and actions. This was evidenced alsoby various other items in the questionnaire.For example, Graber deliberates that the development of ‘craft knowledge’is often the result of trial and error. What works in solving the immediate problembecomes part of the teacher’s permanent inventory of instructional strategies. Whatdoes not work is often promptly discarded in favor of sometimes less powerfulstrategies that have the virtue of yielding immediate benefits. According to Graber,teachers too often lack the necessary pedagogical skills that would enable them toconfront and overcome those obstacles that ultimately reduce teachers to ‘a roll outthe ball approach’ to teaching.The investigation reported in this article can be criticized on the basis of Rowanet al. who said that after Shulman’s contribution, mainstream research onteaching has increasingly moved beyond the search for general pedagogical principlesand aimed at inquiries into specific forms of pedagogical and content knowledge. Wedefend our approach by saying that general pedagogical principles are also worthinvestigating because the comprehensive picture of teaching-learning events shouldnot be ignored in preference to singular content-specific studies.How can we make teachers more conscious of their pedagogical principles and theirrelation to action? Wood calls for teacher learning communities and has a visionof teachers not only as users of pedagogical knowledge, but also as creators and dissem-inators of it. Because teachers need to be knowledgeable in ever-changing contexts,ongoing professional learning simply must be part and parcel of their work, for the sakeof improving student-learning. Focused professional conversations among colleaguesstimulate innovation and further inquiry. From the above discussion, we can see that these two aspects, namely, innovative pedagogical principles and technological capabilities should be considered together in order to produce stimulating immersive learning environments through which robust learning can occur (Blaschke, 2018). This also fits with Kaufman’s (2019) suggestion that, in redesigning transformative instructional blended learning, it is essential to have the involvement of both pedagogical elements and technological tools in order to promote active learning experiences and student-centred pedagogies. Without proper framework and limited knowledge on both technological capabilities and innovative pedagogical principles, it is difficult for educators to bridge the gap between technology and pedagogy, and successfully implement it in the learning and teaching practice despite realising its potential. Thus, the focal point of this systematic literature is three-fold: (1) to ascertain about the principles of heutagogy, peeragogy, and cybergogy that are relevant for an immersive blended learning environment, (2) to identify the capabilities of the technological learning tools that appropriate to use in an immersive blended learning environment, and (3) to inform about how the principles of heutagogy, peeragogy, and cybergogy can be mapped with the capabilities of technological learning tools for the proper implementation of an immersive blended learning environment. FB, blogs, and LMS are the three types of technological learning tools that have been selected to be reviewed to ascertain their capabilities in supporting an immersive blended learning environment. FB is chosen because it is relevant for twenty-first century learning and is also a popular platform among millennials and Gen Z (Oomen-Early & Early, 2015). Similarly, blogs are often used to support active collaboration among students (Blaschke, 2018), whilst LMS is a common discussion platform for students (Twelves & Arasaratnam, 2012). These three technological tools also have the capability of supporting the learning community to complete a task, solve a problem, create a product, and share their thoughts. In brief, the techno-pedagogy mapping can provide a starting point for significant parties in education, such as curriculum designers, and faculty administrators, to have a good understanding of how to design preferred immersive blended learning experiences with much more confidence and competence. In terms of definition, the techno-pedagogy mapping is a mapping that intertwines the pedagogical and technological elements to address explicit relationship of how technological tools are able to assist and support pedagogical aspects. This mapping is suitable for classroom teaching and learning if the following criteria/standards are met: (1) any teaching and learning environment that involve the use of online/virtual/remote/distance learning that requires the assistance of technological learning tools. The technological tools are within the use of Web 2.0 tools. Hence, this mapping might not be appropriate for classroom with application of augmented and virtual reality because of the uncovered capabilities, (2) any teaching and learning setting that involves both independent and/or collaborative learning methods as it takes into accountability of students’ autonomy and collaboration aspects, (3) any teaching and learning pedagogy setting that align with the core principles of innovative pedagogies, that is Heutagogy, Peeragogy and Cybergogy, and (4) any teaching and learning components which consider the immersive learning features. In this case, immersive learning characteristics are (1) real-life like environment, (2) learning process focuses more on learning experience, and (3) supported by appropriate Web 2.0 technological tools. Higher education educators may also utilise the techno-pedagogy mapping framework as a discourse opportunity to innovate their mainstream online curricular delivery by integrating innovative pedagogies with technological capabilities to prepare learners with twenty-first century skills/values in novel situations, such as creativity, independence, communication, self-determination, ability to work with others, critical thinking, capacity to learn and so on, since greater reliance has been placed on information technology as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, as the three innovative pedagogies in the mapping support the shift from instructor-led teaching to student-centred learning, this can, in turn, prepare the students to take ownership of their learning, to survive, and to be competitive with regard to their knowledge and life-skills, which is in line with the 4th industrial revolution and digital transformation agenda. Plus, the mapping can also further inform the theorisation of the concept of innovative pedagogies and technologies in relation to an immersive blended learning environment in higher education, which remains insufficiently studied and substantiated. Download 0.62 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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