英语教师专业发展工作坊——郑东萍教授系列讲座第一场圆满举行

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为推动我校英语教师的专业发展，教师发展中心联合英语教育学院近期推出了英语教师专业发展工作坊，邀请广外大云山讲座教授郑东萍博士开展系列讲座“NewPerspectives on Language Education: What can we truly learn from East and West?”郑东萍教授于2006年获得Universityof Connecticut教育心理学博士，现任夏威夷大学二语研究系副教授。主要研究应用生态心理学，对话学，分布认知及语言来扩张以人为中心的传统二语习得理论。具体课题研究包括虚拟游戏空间环境对语言认知的影响，和以移动无限通讯技术为平台的游戏设计对扩展认知与学习空间，以及社会文化参与于认知的潜能的影响。

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2016年4月21日下午，郑东萍博士系列讲座的首场讲座在院系办公楼245举行，讲座题目为“Ecologicaldialogical perspectives on language education: Examples of abducted learning invirtual worlds”。现场气氛热烈，座无虚席，不少我校老师、学生和其他高校老师慕名前来听讲。她首先以在美国为购买衣柜开展的语言交际活动为例，生动地指出了中西方在哲学、语言、语言学习和教育方面的不同视角，同时肯定了中国儒家、道家思想等传统哲学在语言学习中的价值。在此基础上，郑教授详细讲解了EDD （eco-dialogicaland distributed）Holistic Ontology理论，并提出Eco-dialogical Model （Zheng，2012）。最后，她演示了一段以ELAN软件处理的Eco-dialogical Model教学模式下学生就虚拟世界游戏展开的交流对话录像，并深入浅出地解释了“manipulativeabduction”、“abductedlearning”、“distributed languaging”等概念。在场老师还就自己的研究问题向郑教授汇报请教，老师们对郑教授的精彩讲座充满兴趣，并期待在接下来的系列讲座中继续向郑教授学习。

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讲座内容简介：

Thefirst of four talks addresses the confluence of design in relation tospace-time, sociocultural places, activity and virtual artifacts in a multiuser3D virtual learning environment (3D VLE). Congruent with ecological anddialogical perspectives in which sense-making is contingent on the relationaldynamics of meshwork of these aspects, this talk will be situated in adesign-based research project that focuses on designing problem-solving spacesthat encourage meaning-making in situ, manipulation of virtual objects withinplaces and coordination among players.  

Thesecond talk will be focused on the argument for the need of project-basedlearning and place-based learning in the 21st century education in the socialaffordances of mobile technologies. The following points will be speciallydemonstrated: 1)how we can design mobile games to encourage distributedlanguage learning; 2)how this immersion experience in real physical placesaffects linguistic and cultural acquisition and communication in situ; and 3)how (trans)languaging is dynamically executed in the wild with virtual contentpresent.  

In thethird talk, suggestions will be made to rethink the following issues onlanguage teacher education: 1) From student-centered pedagogy to a networkeddistributed system;2) From task-based learning to project-based learning; 3)From learner-teacher relationship to novice-expert dynamics. In addition to anadvocacy of rethinking our current language education models, the speaker willshare some methods, experiences and insights on how to create a distributedsystem in which both novices and experts are held accountable for learning.  

In thefourth talk, the speaker will provide an account of designing a new learningspace that has the potential of bridging the sociocultural material-ladenspaces and school spaces. This new learning space is mobile, agent-driven,literacy-focused, sociocultural and ecological.