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- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Framework
- Part II Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Government Programs
- Part III Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in University Programs
- Part IV Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
- 12 Transformative Language Learning in the Overseas Immersion Environment
- 13 Transformative Dimensions of Community Engagement and Service Learning during In-Country Immersion
- 14 Immersion and Transformative Pedagogy in the French Language Department of the French War College
- 15 California’s K-12 Dual Language Programs
- Part V The Learner
- Part VI Faculty Development
- Part VII Assessment
- References
- Index
15 - California’s K-12 Dual Language Programs
Transforming Teachers and Learners, Improving Educational Outcomes
from Part IV - Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2021
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Theoretical Framework
- Part II Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Government Programs
- Part III Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in University Programs
- Part IV Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Applications in Immersion Programs
- 12 Transformative Language Learning in the Overseas Immersion Environment
- 13 Transformative Dimensions of Community Engagement and Service Learning during In-Country Immersion
- 14 Immersion and Transformative Pedagogy in the French Language Department of the French War College
- 15 California’s K-12 Dual Language Programs
- Part V The Learner
- Part VI Faculty Development
- Part VII Assessment
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on implementing transformative pedagogy as a solution to support students in their learning rather than feeding into their learning anxiety. The officers who join the Ecole de guerre (French War College) have been taught English through communicative and transactional methods, acquiring grammar and linguistics rather than using the language to communicate. In implementing a contrastive new approach, TLLT, that would promote learner autonomy, several leessons were learned that are reported on in this chapter: (1) the need for caution in analysing the learning environment to avoid introducing a method without properly adapting it, (2) an observation that the transition from one method to another allowed the metanoic and transfromative processes to happen, and (3) the realization that the same reactions and benefits accrued to all the key players - the head of department/course designer, the faculty, the leadership of the college and, last but not least, the students. When stduetns realized that TLLT is about transforming their frame of reference and not re-setting who they are, their motivation rocketed through the roof.
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- Transformative Language Learning and Teaching , pp. 137 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021