Developing digital literacies for second/foreign language teachers

培养第二/外语教师的数字素养

• 批准号: ES/W000024/1
• 负责人: Li Li
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW000024%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; digital; literacies; second; foreign

One of the few positive outcomes from this global pandemic is an opportunity to rethink how digital technologies can be used to support teaching and learning in schools. Equally, after Brexit, one aspect that the UK needs to focus on is second/foreign language education as there is a strong need for global engagement and an additional language and knowledge about different cultures will enable people to achieve that. Against this background, it is important to examine how digital literacies can be developed in S/FL education. Digital literacies can be understood as the practices of communicating, relating, thinking and 'being' associated with digital media. They involve skills such as evaluating materials, collaborating using digital tools and communicating effectively and critically through different media. Teachers play an important role in developing these skills for students but they are not equipped with these skills. Besides, teacher preparation for technology use in language education either has neglected digital literacies or focused on learning the existing technologies rather than using creative and cutting-edge technologies which can change teaching and learning. As a result, facing abundant resources (e.g. websites and apps), teachers often find it hard to choose the appropriate tools/materials. To date, research in digital literacies in second language education mainly focuses on theories behind technology use in language learning, the impact of particular technologies (e.g., social networking) on language areas and skills (e.g., writing) and teachers' and students' opinions. Besides, the majority of work has been carried out with students in higher education and existing research in preparing and developing technology-proficient second language teachers still focuses on IT issues.This project aims to bring together researchers and research users who are interested in promoting digital literacies of second language teachers in secondary schools to explore and propose research ideas or ways forward. We will also expand the existing work, gather evidence of digital literacies in second/foreign language teacher education and develop and consolidate plans for extensive intervention and evaluation projects. The project will also allow researchers to share the best practice and enhance knowledge exchange across cultures, and raise awareness of language teachers in developing both digital literacies. Wider issues such as equal access, ethics and wellbeing around digital literacies will be explored too. We believe literacy as a social practice, so this networking opportunity will explore how digital literacies can be contextualized and practised in different social-cultural contexts, and what common issues can be identified to enable language teachers to develop such literacies and integrate technology appropriately in their classrooms. We will address these issues by building a research team with expertise in second language teacher education, technology-enhanced language learning and effective pedagogies. We will develop four inter-related areas of work to address those issues, namely, a preliminary profiling project with a literature review and a survey with stakeholders, a seminar series consisting of four international seminars, two research visits and two focused 3-day workshops. Users will be fully involved in the networking project. An important feature of this networking project is to involve teachers and policy-makers from the very start of the project so that they will contribute to both the formulation of the research strategy and the research itself. They will also be involved in research seminars and workshops. A follow-up practical workshop will also be designed for them.

这个全球大流行的少数积极成果之一是重新思考如何使用数字技术来支持学校教学的机会。同样，在英国退欧之后，英国需要关注的一个方面是第二/外语教育，因为强烈需要全球参与，并且对不同文化的额外语言和知识将使人们能够实现这一目标。在这种背景下，重要的是要研究如何在S/FL教育中发展数字文学。数字文学可以理解为与数字媒体相关的沟通，关联，思考和“存在”的实践。它们涉及诸如评估材料，使用数字工具协作以及通过不同媒体进行有效和批判性交流的技能。老师在为学生发展这些技能方面发挥了重要作用，但他们没有这些技能。此外，教师为语言教育中的技术使用准备要么忽略了数字文学，要么专注于学习现有技术，而不是使用可以改变教学和学习的创意和尖端技术。结果，面对丰富的资源（例如网站和应用程序），教师经常发现很难选择适当的工具/材料。迄今为止，第二语言教育中数字文学的研究主要集中在语言学习中技术使用背后的理论，特定技术（例如社交网络）对语言领域和技能（例如写作）以及教师和学生的意见的影响。此外，大多数工作都是与高等教育的学生和现有研究的学生一起准备和开发技术专业的第二语言教师仍然专注于IT问题的。该项目旨在将有兴趣促进中学中二级教师的数字文学的研究人员和研究用户聚集在一起，以探索和探索研究思想或提出研究思想或方向发展。我们还将扩大现有工作，收集第二/外语教师教育中的数字文学证据，并制定和巩固计划进行广泛的干预和评估项目。该项目还将允许研究人员共享最佳实践，并增强跨文化的知识交流，并提高对两种数字文学的语言教师的认识。也将探讨更广泛的问题，例如平等访问，道德和福祉。我们认为识字能力是一种社会实践，因此这个网络机会将探讨如何在不同的社会文化背景下进行背景和实践数字文学，以及可以确定哪些共同问题，以使语言教师能够发展此类文学并在课堂上适当地整合技术。我们将通过在第二语言教师教育，技术增强的语言学习和有效教学方面建立专业知识来解决这些问题。我们将开发四个相互关联的工作领域来解决这些问题，即，一个文献综述和与利益相关者的调查，由四个国际研讨会，两次研究访问和两个专注的3天工作室组成的研讨会系列。用户将充分参与网络项目。该网络项目的一个重要特征是从项目的开始就参与教师和政策制定者，以便它们有助于研究策略的制定和研究本身。他们还将参与研究研讨会和研讨会。也将为他们设计后续实用的研讨会。