Consociated classrooms: designing and implementing a second language classroom while inter-connecting curriculum, technology, and dispositions.
| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Stacia | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Nahachewsky, James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-29T22:18:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-29T22:18:57Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2014 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-04-29 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Education M.Ed. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This project examines the current changes in education; recent languages policies developed by the Council of Europe that are influencing language learning around the world; the need to collaborate and connect; a multiplicity of means of connecting and the benefits of such connections to language learners. The project had four stages: defining consociated (and connected classrooms), providing the rationale for consociated classrooms, and designing and implementing a second language classroom that interconnects curriculum, technology and dispositions. After reviewing information about connected classrooms and digital tools being used in second language classrooms, I expanded on the contemporary definition of connected classrooms and created my own name, consociated classrooms, to better define my project. After two experimental semesters with a FSL class in which a variety of these tools were used for connecting in online and face-to-face contexts, it was noticed that these tools helped increase relevance, collaboration, and engagement in the second language classroom. Finally, the first consociated classroom was created between an 11/12 FSL class and a neighbouring 10/11/12 FSL class and another one is in the works for a Beginners' Japanese course. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5318 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | connected classrooms | |
| dc.subject | ||
| dc.subject | language-learning | |
| dc.subject | consociated classrooms | |
| dc.subject | technology | |
| dc.subject | curriculum | |
| dc.subject | dispositions | |
| dc.subject | French | |
| dc.subject | CEFR | |
| dc.title | Consociated classrooms: designing and implementing a second language classroom while inter-connecting curriculum, technology, and dispositions. | en_US |
| dc.type | project | en_US |