关于举办英语教师专业发展工作坊的通知

各位老师：

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推出英语教师专业发展工作坊，第一场由我校云山讲座教授，夏威夷大学二语研究系郑东萍博士，为大家带来New Perspectives on Language Education: What can we truly learn fromEast and West?的系列讲座，请有兴趣的老师报名参加。以下为讲座详情：

一、主讲人：郑东萍副教授（夏威夷大学二语研究系）

二、时间与地点：  

三、讲座内容：

The first of fourtalks addresses the confluence of design in relation to space-time,sociocultural places, activity and virtual artifacts in a multiuser 3D virtuallearning environment (3D VLE). Congruent with ecological and dialogicalperspectives in which sense-making is contingent on the relational dynamics ofmeshwork of these aspects, this talk will be situated in a design-basedresearch project that focuses on designing problem-solving spaces thatencourage meaning-making in situ, manipulation of virtual objects within placesand coordination among players.

The second talk willbe focused on the argument for the need of project-based learning andplace-based learning in the 21st century education in the social affordances ofmobile technologies. The following points will be specially demonstrated: 1)how we can design mobile games to encourage distributed language learning; 2)how this immersion experience in real physical places affects linguistic andcultural acquisition and communication in situ; and 3) how (trans)languaging isdynamically executed in the wild with virtual content present.

In the third talk,suggestions will be made to rethink the following issues on language teachereducation: 1) From student-centered pedagogy to a networked distributed system;2) From task-based learning to project-based learning; 3) From learner-teacherrelationship to novice-expert dynamics. In addition to an advocacy of rethinkingour current language education models, the speaker will share some methods,experiences and insights on how to create a distributed system in which bothnovices and experts are held accountable for learning.

In the fourth talk,the speaker will provide an account of designing a new learning space that hasthe potential of bridging the sociocultural material-laden spaces and schoolspaces. This new learning space is mobile, agent-driven, literacy-focused,socioculural and ecological.

四、嘉宾简介：

Dongping Zheng (郑东萍)博士，于2006年获得University of Connecticut教育心理学博士。现任University of Hawaii, The Department of Second Language Studies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。

五、报名方式：请登录教师发展中心官方网站活动报名地址http://ctdapply.gdufs.edu.cn/进行网上在线报名。（首次登录，需要进行账户注册，可凭此账号查看报名相关情况，并参加教师发展中心其它活动。）请有兴趣参加本次讲座的老师务必于4月21日（周四）上午10:00以前报名，如有疑问，请致电教师发展中心，联系电话：36641382（短号：2382）

人事处、教师发展中心

2016年4月14日

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郑东萍博士在校期间，为我校教师提供每周一次的办公室开放时间，为老师们提供个性化的指导和帮助，请老师们充分利用。

办公室地点：南校区院系楼223房

办公室开放时间：14:30-16:00

办公室开放日期：4月22日、4月25日、5月10日、5月11日