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Sommario
Preface
1. Unfolding Curriculum With No End in Mind
2. (Re)Imagining Curriculum to Reveal the Cultural Story
3. From Coverage Without Pity to Designing With Performance for Transfer: Make it New Everyday
4. Designing for Interpretive Goals: Exploring Meaning for Mediation
5. Designing for the Interpersonal Goal: Consensus on Meaning for Mediation
6. Designing for Presentational Goals: Creating Meaning for Mediation
7. Putting it Together for Articulation and Transfer
References
Index
Info autore
Jennifer Eddy is Associate Professor and Program Director of World Language Education at Queens College, City University of New York, USA, and directs professional development initiatives for schools and universities on curriculum and performance assessment design.
Riassunto
This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to community, developing communicative competence for mediation and learner autonomy along the way.
For novice and experienced instructors alike, this book empowers them to:
- design curriculum from transferable concepts that are worthy of understanding and have value within the culture(s) and to the learner;
- develop assessments that ask the learner to solve problems, and create products that transfer concepts or address needs of various audiences that they will encounter in community, life, and work;
- direct language learners through a spiral, articulated program that supports academic, career and personal goals.
Pedagogical features include a glossary of key terms, research-to-practice boxes, scaffolded design tasks, reflection questions and template samples representing language exemplars from the following languages and cultures: Arabic, Chinese, Èdè Yorùbá, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Ladino, Nahuatl, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Te Reo Maori and Urdu. The accompanying online resources offer blank templates, PowerPoints and guides for designing bespoke curricula with key performance assessments.
Prefazione
Provides strategies and templates for modern foreign language curriculum design that transfers language learning from the classroom to the community.
Testo aggiuntivo
A critical resource for all language educators who aim to engage learners in relevant, interesting, and meaningful lessons. The book seamlessly merges the theoretical foundations of language acquisition and world language teacher practice […] by placing educators at the core — guiding them through sequenced learning activities thereby mirroring what we do with our own learners when in the classroom. This book is exceptional. For teachers, it offers detailed examples that can be used immediately in the classroom or to generate ideas as they move forward as teacher architects. For teacher educators, it models best practices—connecting the elements of Understanding by Design, learner proficiency, Can-do statements, and standards for language learning.
