外语教育与教师发展沙龙2015

讲座题目：Ecological dialogical perspectives on language education: Examples of abductive learning in virtual worlds
主讲人：Dr. Dongping Zheng（University of Hawaii）
时  间：2015年5月27日下午4：10—5：40
地  点：北京外国语大学东院 图书馆4层学术报告厅
形  式：主讲人讲座1小时，大家讨论半小时。

讲座内容：
This talk addresses the confluence of design in relation to space-time, sociocultural places, activity and virtual artifacts in a multiuser 3D virtual learning environment (3D VLE). Congruent with ecological and dialogical perspectives in which sense-making is contingent on the relational dynamics of meshwork of these aspects, this talk will be situated in a design-based research project that focuses on designing problem-solving spaces that encourage meaning-making in situ, manipulation of virtual objects within places and coordination among players. This project investigated how learners of Chinese and English coordinated on a project in which they collaboratively decorated a virtual living room. The findings suggest that socioculturally bounded places afford different kinds of learning: 1) Learning occurred through referencing in relatively static places, such as a museum; and 2) transformative learning occurs through coordination between verbal instruction and object manipulation in relatively more open-ended places, such as an apartment room.  There is also a strong relationship between translanguaging and object manipulation. By illustrating the examples of how learning and translanguaging occur in 3D VLE, I will conclude the talk by addressing the values that accompany process of cognition and interactivity, which resulted from intended and unintended designs guided by the eco-dialogical model.

讲座人简介：
Dr. Dongping Zheng is an associate professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She is interested in how technology can be a catalyst to broaden the notion of second language acquisition and learning at theoretical, methodological and practical levels. Her research focuses on learners’ distributed, embodied, embedded, dynamic, and situated practices in virtual worlds and with the support the mobile technologies. She has published a dozen of paper on the topics of game design, game-based learning and language learning under the umbrella of distributed perspectives. She is an active member of Distributed Language Group and International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition (ISSILC).

北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心
北京外国语大学教师发展中心
2015年5月25日