Categorías: Todo - digital - diversity - self-efficacy - connectivism

por Leito Bravo hace 3 años

287

Intercultural Education in Ecuador

Connectivism theory has been shown to be more effective than traditional communicative language teaching methods in enhancing the self-efficacy and task value of students learning English as a Foreign Language (

Intercultural Education  in Ecuador

Intercultural Education in Ecuador

Ambitions

My vision about the future
Short-term Goals

Characteristics

As learning is according to the connectivist principles based on creating connections among the nodes, in foreign language education it is important to decode, understand, and connect a new node with the old ones.
It is important for learners to be able to perceive a language not as a structure, but as a network of networks (the network of morphology connected with the networks of syntax, lexicology, and phonology together create a network connected with the network of semantics), and then to comprehend the connections among the nodes within these networks.
Responsibility

The Motivational Outcomes Of Connectivism Theory In EFL

Method provide unique opportunities for increasing the self-efficacy and task value of students by increasing social intractions and diversity for choosing tasks
This theory claims to have made new developments through the attention to the effects of the advent of the digital era, in the field of education and learning in general and teaching and learning of EFL in particular.
Connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
For example, in online learning environments concluded that a high academic self-efficacy in learners leads to their better use of online learning environments.
Self-efficacy specifically refers to student’s beliefs about their ability to successfully complete academic
The results showed the connectivism instructional method was significantly more effective than communicative language teaching method
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of connectivism instructional method in comparison witH communicative language teaching method on academic self-efficacy and task value among students in EFL.

Roles of students in this method.

Learner at the centre of the learning experience rather than the educator. Learner's ability to see or form connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.

Roles of teachers in this method

The main role of the teacher is not to forget about Siemens’ basic idea that the ability to learn (create and understand connections) is more important than the current mount of knowledge.

Common Activities

Communicative games- such as role plays and conversations which provided chances for students to employ the English language.
Writing- Students promote writing through drafts to be uploaded to Facebook messages.
Reading/Speaking-students engage in speech activity in pairs or small groups. They then prepare an oral report for the entire class on how they did homework.
pre-tasks-involving the discussion on video clips and idiomatic expressions or ocabulary useful for the main outside and inside tasks fulfillment.

Teaching Foreign Languages: A Challenge to Ecuadorian Bilingual Intercultural Education

Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information.While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations
Decision-making is a learning process itself.
Maintenance of connections is important for continuous learning
Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
learning and knowledge are based on the diversity of opinions;