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SLS680P: Tasks, Activities and Learning Environments (Fall 2012)

Dongping Zheng, Ph.D.  zhengd@hawaii.edu, Department of Second Language StudiesClass meets at Moore Hall 155A | Thursdays 3:00-5:50Office Hours: 2:00-4:30 Tuesdays | Moore Hall 555 This course addresses new understandings of learning as they apply to second language instruction and instruction in general, namely "embodied learning", "joint coordinated action" and "dialogical approaches to instruction". The course content will have two main parts: one strand being current literature in New…See More
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Febronia Lasi replied to Olga Karamalak's discussion 4th Week Reading (Questions on Linell 2009, Chapter 13)
"Understanding between speaker and receiver is the aspect of using language. But the to reach the "same understanding" require a convention and agreement between both side. Speaker and receiver can communicate and understand each other, but…"
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Febronia Lasi replied to Dongping's discussion Week 5 -Prompt 1: An Ecological psychology of Instructional Design (Young, 2004)
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Dongping commented on Gretchen Yamaguchi's blog post Activities 11-15
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Dear class:Please access the following links for information related to my presentation. Thanks.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiuhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/7009994/Screen%20shot%202010-08-13%20at%203.41.41%20PM.png…See More
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4th Week Reading (Questions on Linell 2009, Chapter 13) 3 Replies

1. Someone once said: “Spoken word is lie”. It means that we can hardly express ourselves properly, our thoughts can be distorted while making them verbal. Not speaking about the person who perceives…Continue

Started by Olga Karamalak. Last reply by Febronia Lasi Nov 1, 2010.

Week 5 -Prompt 1: An Ecological psychology of Instructional Design (Young, 2004) 5 Replies

In Young (2004), Several instructional constructs are re-conceptualized in ecological psychological terms, such as collaboration, problem-solving, motivation and assessment. Can you pick one concept…Continue

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Week 5-Prompt 2: Inscriptions Becoming Representations (Medina et al., 2009) 1 Reply

As Medina, Suthers and Vatrapu (2009) found, linguistic acts and representational (graphic) manipulations are tightly coordinated and situation transcending during math problem solving sessions in a…Continue

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Week 5-Prompt 3: Self and Language Learning (van Lier, 2004) 3 Replies

Van Lier defines identity as a project as well as a projection of the self, in interaction with social groups, institutions, and particular political contexts” (pp. 125 and 131 2004). Can you…Continue

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SLS680P: Tasks, Activities and Learning Environments (Fall 2012)

Dongping Zheng, Ph.D.  zhengd@hawaii.edu, Department of Second Language Studies

Class meets at Moore Hall 155A | Thursdays 3:00-5:50

Office Hours: 2:00-4:30 Tuesdays | Moore Hall 555

 

This course addresses new understandings of learning as they apply to second language instruction and instruction in general, namely "embodied learning", "joint coordinated action" and "dialogical approaches to instruction". The course content will have two main parts: one strand…

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Posted by Dongping on April 17, 2012 at 9:56am

Activities 11-15

Dr. Zheng,



I e-mailed you because I just realized that these activities were not on the network even though I posted them early Sunday a.m.! Here they are again. I hope it works this time.



Activity #11 – Video Interpretation



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This activity helps develop students’ skills in using shared cognition and other distributed cognition resources to understand speakers of another language.



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Posted by Gretchen Yamaguchi on August 17, 2010 at 7:48pm

Activities 11-15

Here they are Professor Zheng! Thanks so much for your patience and flexibility. It is much appreciated. And thanks for the class. It has been enjoyable and very helpful. :)





Activity #11 – Video Interpretation…





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Posted by Gretchen Yamaguchi on August 15, 2010 at 5:27am — 1 Comment

Jing's presentation

Dear class:


Please access the following links for information related to my presentation. Thanks.






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