為推動我校英語教師的專業發展，教師發展中心聯合太阳成集团tyc234cc近期推出了英語教師專業發展工作坊，邀請廣外大雲山講座教授鄭東萍博士開展系列講座“NewPerspectives on Language Education: What can we truly learn fromEast and West?” 鄭東萍教授于2006年獲得University of Connecticut教育心理學博士，現任夏威夷大學二語研究系副教授。主要研究應用生态心理學，對話學，分布認知及語言來擴張以人為中心的傳統二語習得理論。具體課題研究包括虛拟遊戲空間環境對語言認知的影響，和以移動無限通訊技術為平台的遊戲設計對擴展認知與學習空間，以及社會文化參與于認知的潛能的影響。

2016年4月21日下午，鄭東萍博士系列講座的首場講座在院系辦公樓245舉行，講座題目為“Ecological dialogical perspectives on language education: Examplesof abductive learning in virtual worlds”。現場氣氛熱烈，座無虛席，不少我校老師、學生和其他高校老師慕名前來聽講。她首先以在美國為購買衣櫃開展的語言交際活動為例，生動地指出了中西方在哲學、語言、語言學習和教育方面的不同視角，同時肯定了中國儒家、道家思想等傳統哲學在語言學習中的價值。在此基礎上，鄭教授詳細講解了EDD （eco-dialogical and distributed）Holistic Ontology理論，并提出Eco-dialogical Model （Zheng，2012）。最後，她演示了一段以ELAN軟件處理的Eco-dialogical Model教學模式下學生就虛拟世界遊戲展開的交流對話錄像，并深入淺出地解釋了“manipulative abduction”、“abductivelearning”、“distributed languaging”等概念。在場老師還就自己的研究問題向鄭教授彙報請教，老師們對鄭教授的精彩講座充滿興趣，并期待在接下來的系列講座中繼續向鄭教授學習。

附：鄭東萍博士系列講座時間與地點：

 

                       

日期	時間	主題	地點
4月21日（周四）	下午   2：30-4：30	Ecological  dialogical perspectives on language education: Examples of abductive learning  in virtual worlds	南校院系樓辦公樓245室
4月28日（周四）		Project  and place-based learning: Affordances of mobile technologies for rethinking  learning and teaching.
5月5日 （周四）		Rethinking  language education from eco-dialogical and distributed (EDD) perspectives.
5月12日（周四）		Mobile-enabled  new learning spaces for expansion of diversity and agentic learning

 

講座内容簡介：

 

The first of fourtalksaddresses the confluence of design in relation to space-time,socioculturalplaces, activity and virtual artifacts in a multiuser 3D virtuallearningenvironment (3D VLE). Congruent with ecological and dialogicalperspectives inwhich sense-making is contingent on the relational dynamics ofmeshwork of theseaspects, this talk will be situated in a design-basedresearch project thatfocuses on designing problem-solving spaces thatencourage meaning-making insitu, manipulation of virtual objects within placesand coordination amongplayers.

 

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

 

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

 

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