Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A study of students' metacognitive beliefs about foreign language study and their impact on learning

This article reports on an investigation into the language learning beliefs of students of French in England, aged 16 to 18. It focuses on qualitative data from two groups of learners (10 in total). While both groups had broadly similar levels of achievement in French in terns of examination success, they dffered greatly in the self-image they had of themselves as language learners, with one group displaying low levels of self-eficacy beliefs regarding the possibility of future success. The implica tions of such beliefs for students' levels of motivation and persistence are discussed, together with their possible causes. The article concludes by suggesting changes in classroom practice that might help students develop a more positive image of them selves as language learners.

Innovaciones didácticas en la enseñanza de la lengua china

La innovación en la didáctica de la lengua china es un campo de estudio que debe aportar continuamente nuevas ideas y perspectivas para mejorar el aprendizaje de los alumnos que estudian la lengua china. Según el programa general de enseñanza del idioma chino para extranjeros, los componentes de la competencia lingüística son los conocimientos lingüísticos, las destrezas lingüísticas, las estrategias y la conciencia cultural [Xu Lin, 2009:3]. Si aprender chino es más difícil que aprender una lengua más cercana a la nuestra, entonces necesitamos herramientas más especializadas que aumenten nuestra constancia en el aprendizaje, que agilicen tareas cognitivas monótonas pero necesarias (como la memorización de caracteres) y que nos motiven a seguir adelante. En la actualidad se está ampliando de forma considerable la gama de recursos didácticos: DVD interactivos, tarjetas de vocabulario, material especializado para profesores, paneles auditivos, software, etc. Esta serie de materiales ayudaría a mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos y dinamizaría la clase de lengua china, facilitando la adquisición progresiva de las habilidades lingüísticas

Language and learning : an introduction for teaching

This revised and updated edition provides a practical and readable explanation of how language can be understood and significant implications for classroom and teaching practices.

Team teaching and communicative language teaching in Japanese secondary schools

Explores team teaching and communicative language teaching in Japanese schools. The study's first phase uses the ethnographic approach of participant observation. The second phase uses eleven case study interviews to discover the teachers' conceptions of communicative language teaching. Identifies elements of team taught lessons and elucidates the conceptions of communicative language teaching held by a sample of teachers.

Teaching Thai language and culture abroad

Drawing on some principles of action research a systematic curriculum was developed for the Buddhapadipa temple school in London. Data was collected using interview-conversations, reflective episodes, classroom observations. The research was supported by four smaller studies investigating specific aspects of curriculum, language, culture and national identity.

Sentence combining and thinking : a study of adult ESL learners

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Brock University, 2003.

Language learning : an introduction for teaching

The fourth edition ... continues to provide an accessible and comprehensive explanation of language acquisition and use, written specifically for Australian teacher-education students and teachers.

Women, words, and work : a study of change and reconstruction in adult TESOL

My dissertation asserts that the discourses which at the present time construct the world of work for teachers in adult TESOL, are no longer adequate to represent the field in these new and rapidly changing times. For the last forty years the discourses that have constructed the field present a totalising, gender free, liberal humanist view of TESOL, rendering women's experience invisible, no longer speaking to or for women teachers who make up more than ninety percent of the teachers in Victorian adult TESOL programs (Cope & Kalantzis 1993, Brodkey 1991, Fine 1992, Peirce 1995). I begin by exploring the work of women teachers in adult TESOL, focusing on women teaching in the fast growing de-institutionalised settings of adult TESOL programs, which remain marginalised from the central programs in terms of administrative policy and practice. I report the findings of a series of projects undertaken by the teachers and the researcher by which new insights and understandings of teachers beliefs about their work and the changes which are currently reconstructing the field of adult language and literacy education in Australia, have been gained. I questions the discourses of applied linguistics which have for the past forty years constructed the field of adult TESOL in Australia and suggests that these lack a social theory (Candlin 1989). From the research findings I questions the possibility of continuing to work in the ways of the past, in the current climate of reconstruction of the field, rapid policy change and continued erosion of resources. I suggest that the previously loose system which held this field of work together, the ways of working, the understandings of practice, have in the light of these new times, been stretched to the limit and are in real danger of collapse. For the women working in TESOL this continued incursion of the systems into their work and the changes that have taken place, the denial of their ways of working, their local knowledge and gendered experiences, can be read against Habermas' concept of the colonisation of the lifeworld of language teaching (Habermas 1987).