为推动我校英语教师的专业发展，教师发展中心联合3044永利集团登录近期推出了英语教师专业发展工作坊，邀请广外大云山讲座教授郑东萍博士开展系列讲座“NewPerspectives on Language Education: What can we truly learn fromEast and West?” 郑东萍教授于2006年获得University of Connecticut教育心理学博士，现任夏威夷大学二语研究系副教授。主要研究应用生态心理学，对话学，分布认知及语言来扩张以人为中心的传统二语习得理论。具体课题研究包括虚拟游戏空间环境对语言认知的影响，和以移动无限通讯技术为平台的游戏设计对扩展认知与学习空间，以及社会文化参与于认知的潜能的影响。

2016年4月21日下午，郑东萍博士系列讲座的首场讲座在院系办公楼245举行，讲座题目为“Ecological dialogical perspectives on language education: Examplesof abductive learning in virtual worlds”。现场气氛热烈，座无虚席，不少我校老师、学生和其他高校老师慕名前来听讲。她首先以在美国为购买衣柜开展的语言交际活动为例，生动地指出了中西方在哲学、语言、语言学习和教育方面的不同视角，同时肯定了中国儒家、道家思想等传统哲学在语言学习中的价值。在此基础上，郑教授详细讲解了EDD （eco-dialogical and distributed）Holistic Ontology理论，并提出Eco-dialogical Model （Zheng，2012）。最后，她演示了一段以ELAN软件处理的Eco-dialogical Model教学模式下学生就虚拟世界游戏展开的交流对话录像，并深入浅出地解释了“manipulative abduction”、“abductivelearning”、“distributed languaging”等概念。在场老师还就自己的研究问题向郑教授汇报请教，老师们对郑教授的精彩讲座充满兴趣，并期待在接下来的系列讲座中继续向郑教授学习。

附：郑东萍博士系列讲座时间与地点：

 

                       

日期	时间	主题	地点
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	南校院系楼办公楼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

 

讲座内容简介：

 

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.