Language awareness for KS3 (LAwKS-3)

KS3 语言意识 (LAwKS-3)

• 批准号: AH/V005049/1
• 负责人: Christina Sevdali
• 金额: $ 10.25万
• 依托单位: University of Ulster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV005049%2F1
• 关键词: Language; awareness; KS3; LAwKS

The benefits of learning a second language are numerous and extremely well-documented. They range from cognitive benefits that relate to memory and mental agility, to economic benefits such as access to foreign markets, to societal benefits, a second language enhancing one's ability to see the world from another point of view. Having a second language can also delay the effects of degenerative diseases among the elderly, in a way that is more effective than any medicine currently available. In addition to this, research reveals significant educational benefits from learning a second language that relate to literacy of the children's native language and also maths. Despite all this, modern language teaching in the UK in general and Northern Ireland (NI) in particular is in a deep crisis. British Council's 2019 Language Trends report reveals a number of bleak trends for the region, in light of the fact that in NI, unlike the rest of the UK, there is no compulsory modern languages teaching in primary schools. In post-primary education there is a drop of modern languages A-levels, although school officials would welcome action to improve status and teaching of languages. LAwKS-3 aims to address exactly this crisis by creating a linguistically-informed resource for modern language teaching. This project will be creating a complete language awareness module for Key stage 3 that will introduce pupils to key grammatical concepts, using examples from frequently taught modern languages (e.g. French, Spanish, German and Irish), classical and medieval languages (Latin, Ancient Greek, Old English) but also heritage languages that are frequently spoken in NI. In this way, LAwKS-3 will utilise the comparative and the diachronic methods that have been used for decades in theoretical linguistics and transport them into language teaching. This course will include (a) lesson plans for the teachers, (b) classroom resources such as PowerPoint presentations, (c) worksheets with exercises for the pupils, and (d) videos of the teacher training sessions for use by other schools. The resources will be designed by the project team but they will be receiving continuous feedback and guidance from a steering group panel as well as teachers. This project is a collaboration between theoretical and historical linguists and our project partner school, St. Patrick's Academy in Dungannon. The partner school will not only assist in the design of the resource but it also will pilot it throughout the academic year 2020 - 2021 with a cohort from their Year eight students. They will also provide us with feedback both from staff and students in crucial stages of the project development. At the end of the academic year, the LAwKS-3 resource will be finalized, taking into account all the feedback provided and all the materials along with the teacher training session will be put online on the project website and other key outlets, to be used by any school that wishes to do so. This project is interdisciplinary by design since it seeks to apply long-standing linguistic insights into language teaching. In doing so it aims to assist native language literacy and also battle misconceptions about language variation. It also intends to put heritage speakers into the forefront by bringing into the school their native linguistic ability, something that will empower and further incentivise these students. The long-standing goal of LAwKS-3 is threefold:- To assist teachers in delivering a varied, linguistically-informed curriculum that substantially enhances language teaching- To empower students from all backgrounds to access modern and classical languages and acquire the tools necessary for any kind of language learning- Ultimately, to reverse the trends for language choices at A-level.

学习第二语言的好处是众多的，并且非常有据可查。它们的范围从与记忆和思维敏捷有关的认知益处，到进入外国市场等经济益处，再到社会益处，第二语言增强了一个人从另一个角度看待世界的能力。掌握第二种语言还可以延缓老年人退行性疾病的影响，这种方式比目前可用的任何药物都更有效。除此之外，研究还表明，学习第二种语言对教育有很大的好处，这与儿童的母语识字和数学有关。尽管如此，英国的现代语言教学总体上，尤其是北方爱尔兰（NI），正处于深刻的危机之中。英国理事会的2019年语言趋势报告揭示了该地区的一些黯淡趋势，因为与英国其他地区不同，北爱尔兰的小学没有强制性的现代语言教学。在小学后教育中，现代语言A级考试的成绩有所下降，尽管学校官员欢迎采取行动改善语言的地位和教学。LAwKS-3旨在通过为现代语言教学创建语言信息资源来解决这一危机。该项目将创建一个完整的语言意识模块的关键阶段3，将介绍学生的关键语法概念，使用经常教现代语言（例如法语，西班牙语，德语和爱尔兰语），古典和中世纪语言（拉丁语，古希腊语，古英语）的例子，但也是经常在NI说的遗产语言。通过这种方式，LAwKS-3将利用在理论语言学中已经使用了几十年的比较和历时方法，并将其应用于语言教学。这门课程将包括（a）教师的课程计划，（B）课堂资源，如PowerPoint演示文稿，（c）学生的练习，以及（d）供其他学校使用的教师培训课程录像。这些资源将由项目团队设计，但他们将不断收到指导小组小组和教师的反馈和指导。这个项目是理论和历史语言学家和我们的项目合作伙伴学校，邓甘农的圣帕特里克学院之间的合作。合作学校不仅将协助设计资源，而且还将在2020 - 2021学年与八年级学生一起进行试点。他们还将在项目开发的关键阶段为我们提供来自员工和学生的反馈。在学年结束时，将考虑到所提供的所有反馈意见，最后确定LAwKS-3资源，所有材料沿着教师培训课程将放在项目网站和其他主要渠道上，供任何希望这样做的学校使用。该项目是跨学科的设计，因为它旨在将长期存在的语言学见解应用于语言教学。在这样做的过程中，它旨在帮助母语扫盲，并与对语言变化的误解作斗争。它还打算通过将他们的母语能力带入学校，将传统演讲者置于最前沿，这将赋予并进一步激励这些学生。LAwKS-3的长期目标有三个方面：-帮助教师提供多样化的，语言知识丰富的课程，大大提高语言教学-使来自各种背景的学生能够接触现代和古典语言，并获得任何语言学习所需的工具-最终，扭转A级语言选择的趋势。