Le Professeur Steven Thorne (Portland State University, USA)
a obtenu cette année la « Chaire International Francqui Professor ».
La leçon inaugurale s'intitule :
“Amplifying affordances for language learning: Rewilding and desire lines as vectors for innovation”.
Cet événement aura lieu le 14/11/2024 à 16h00.
Lieu: Collège Albert Descamp, Grand Place 45, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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La date limite d'inscription est fixée au 7/11/24.
Abstract:
Language use, second-language development, and technology mediated human activity are complex processes situated in, and in some cases demonstrably interwoven with and catalyzed by, specific material and social contexts. Due to this complexity, world language (L2) education has long-attempted to simulate real-world settings in order to address the sense of artificiality this is endemic to many instructional contexts. In recent decades, there has been growing research and innovation relating to the use of digital technologies and pedagogies that interface formal L2 education with opportunities for interaction and learning that occur primarily or fully outside of classroom contexts (Reinders et al., 2022; Thorne et al., 2009, 2021), with the goal of increasing the ecological validity of both the content and interactional processes of language learning. This presentation describes a 20-year trajectory of research-informed pedagogical innovation using the metaphor of “rewilding.” Similar in some respects to other extramural and language learning beyond the classroom projects, “rewilding” language education (Thorne, Hellermann, & Jakonen, 2021) involves reverse engineering from studies of learning in the wild (Hutchins, 1995; Thorne, 2008, 2010, 2012).