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CULTURAL-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING OBJECTS

in the GREEK DIASPORA

Lambropoulos, NikieLearning & Online Communities Architect

[email protected]

Christopoulou MarthaArt, Artefact & Culture Teacher

[email protected]

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OVERVIEW

Greek Language: Second/Foreign

Initial Problems in Teaching & Learning Greek in the UK

Cultural-based & Blended Learning

Learning Objects (LOs)

Advantages of Cultural-based LOs

CLO example: the Garland of May

Summary

Future Perspectives


GREEK LANGUAGE: SECOND/ FOREIGN

Second --------------------- foreign

gray zone

Second = * cultural environment & *Objective Knowledge from cultural heritage in our genes


INITIAL PROBLEMS IN TEACHING & LEARNING GREEK IN UK

Levels of language acquisition Dominance of English language English language & social mobility Contradiction between the Cypriot dialect &

Modern Greek Teaching & Learning environment

(operation of GLC, teachers’ training, educational policy)

Norm-based learning


CULTURAL-BASED & BLENDED LEARNING

Relationship between culture & language Incorporating culture into second/foreign

language learning

Information about:

• native speakers’ society, history, etc

• their attitudes, values, etc

• artistic & literary accomplishments Blended learning

• On/Off classroom * Synchronous/Asynchronous learning


LEARNING OBJECTS (LOs)

Principles: cohesion, minimised decoupling, interdisciplinarity

Construction• Preliminary research about problems & common

mistakes

• Compatibility with LOs international standards

• Indexation (row data within the LO, LO taxonomy: LOs, clusters, sets, units)

• Packaging: XML LOMetadata Editors Delivery (Internet, Mobile devices, CD-Roms)


ADVANTAGES OF CLLOs

Grammatical phenomena accompanied with artefacts, music, films, etc

Enrichment of teaching by information about the target culture

Students’ motivation for further research about the target culture

Discussions expansion about cultural, historical & linguistic factors


CLLO EXAMPLE


SUMMARY A variety of solutions can be provided by Blended &

Cultural-based learning Increase students’ interest & motivation Provision of information about the target culture &

language CLLOs environment facilitates:

• Self-organised leraning

• Sociocultural learning CLLOs construction

• Inquiry about students’ needs/difficulties

• Collaboration between people of different professions (researchers, teachers, curriculum developers, artists, multimedia developers,ICT engineers)


FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Self-organized & Collaborative learning Use both eMaterial and Discussion

forums Use CLLOs to enhance minorities’

identity eLearning Multicultural Projects Cross-curriculum activities


PERVASIVE, CULTURAL & MICRO LEARNING

EU Leonardo da Vinci Project: English as a second language in Europe on the

teachers’ training framework Research Studio (Uni of Innsbruck, Austria)

• ILSP (Greece)• British Council (Valorisation)

…… Poland


THANK YOU..

FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Niki Lambropoulos http://nikilambropoulos.org

[email protected]

Martha [email protected]

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