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Gain insights into FL/WL teachers' beliefs on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) teaching and technology's role. Practical goal is to inform educators for better training in ICC practices. Conceptual framework includes constructivist and critical pedagogy, sociocultural lens for SLA, and more. Research aims to understand teachers' beliefs on culture, instructional technology, and ICC implementation in classrooms. Methods include questionnaires, interviews, and observations for validity and reliability.
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Research Goals To gain an understanding of: The beliefs and perspectives of FL/WL teachers towards teaching intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and the role of technology to do so. Practical Goal: To inform the educational field (FL/WL teacher educators and school administrators) so that they can provide FL/WL in-service and pre-service teachers with training and professional development to improve practices for teaching ICC. • Conceptual Framework • Constructivist Pedagogy • Sociocultural Lens for SLA • Defining ICC • Critical Pedagogy • Minority Populations in FL/WL • Power and Languages • Ethnography • Research beyond the classroom • Research Questions • What are the beliefs and perspectives of FL/WL teachers towards teaching intercultural communicative competence and what is the role of technology to do so? • What are FL/WL teachers’ beliefs about culture? • How do their beliefs influence their teaching of culture? • What are FL/WL teachers’ beliefs about instructional technology? • How do their beliefs influence their use instructional technology to teach culture? • To what extent does intercultural communicative competence take place in the FL/WL classroom with respect to teachers’ beliefs towards the teaching of culture and/or the use of instructional technology? • Research Methods • Questionnaire • Interviews • Classroom Observations Validity and Reliability M. Ferro Design Map--Draft #3