Toward Inclusive Modern Language Teaching and Learning: Integration of Cognitive Science and Pedagogy
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2022-02
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Ohio State University. Libraries
Abstract
Modern languages are typically taught in group settings, with the underlying assumption that all learners have a similar level of skills based on age-appropriately developed cognitive processes. Recently, however, more learners with diverse learning processes have been integrated into traditional classrooms, and instructors often teach such mixed groups of learners (Konyndyk 2011).
The current study highlights the multilayered challenges instructors face in teaching a language to a group with diverse learning processes and explores optimal ways to teach them. The study argues that, in addition to providing institutional support to fill the perceptual gap among learners, integration of cognitive science research, such as language perception and production, with language pedagogy plays a critical role in successful language teaching to a diverse group of learners.
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inclusive language teaching, diverse learning process, cognitive science, pedagogy
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Yamashita, Hiroko. "Toward Inclusive Modern Language Teaching and Learning: Integration of Cognitive Science and Pedagogy." Buckeye East Asia: Occasional Papers, vol. 1 (February 2022), p. 147-156.