The Reconstruction of Sense in the Foreign Language Classroom
An Introduction to Reconstructive Foreign Language Research
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: The reconstructive approach to foreign language teaching and learning
- 2 The reconstruction of sense in the foreign language classroom
- 2.1 Methodological principles
- 2.1.1 Methodologically controlled foreign understanding
- 2.1.2 Discourse development in foreign language teaching
- 2.1.3 The indexicality of communication
- 2.1.4 Frame orientations
- 2.1.5 Typification
- 2.1.6 Interlanguage and language awareness
- 2.1.7 Learning group milieus and conjunctive realms of experience
- 2.1.8 A social-interactional teaching and learning model in foreign language teaching
- 2.2 Communication via texts
- 2.2.1 Communication via literary texts
- 2.2.2 Communication via visual texts
- 2.3 Communication about texts
- 2.3.1 Image-Text-Task
- 2.3.2 Sample task: Personal description
- 2.4 Communication about experiences in the foreign language classroom, about teaching and about learning languages
- 3 Procedural steps of the documentary method
- 3.1 Group discussion and class discussion
- 3.1.1 Participant observation, audio recording and transcription
- 3.1.2 Formulating interpretation
- 3.1.3 Reflecting interpretation
- 3.1.4 Case description
- 3.1.5 Typification
- 3.2 The narrative interview
- 3.2.1 Formal interview analysis
- 3.2.2 Contentual interview analysis
- 3.2.3 Case description and case comparison
- 4 Case workshop
- 4.1 The comic Ne me quitte pas in the Spanish classroom
- 4.1.1 Research questions and research frameworks
- 4.1.2 Jordi Lafebre, Ne me quitte pas: Analysing the sense of the text
- 4.1.3 Ne me quitte pas: Analysing the sense of the task
- 4.1.4. From asking “what” to asking “how”: Changing the analysis settings
- 4.1.5 Case comparison and typification
- 4.2 Communication about teaching languages. The narrative interviews with Bianca and Anne.
- 4.2.1 Interview with Bianca
- 4.2.2 Interview with Anne
- 4.3.3. Case comparison of narrative interviews
- 5 Prospects
- Bibliography
- List of tables and figures
- Glossary
- Keyword index
Bernd Michael Tesch
The Reconstruction of Sense
in the Foreign Language Classroom
An Introduction to Reconstructive
Foreign Language Research
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About the book
This book is an introduction to reconstructive foreign language research using the documentary method. It contains an intensive reflection on social practices and the role of language awareness within the context of the instructional interaction in the foreign language classroom.
The narrative interview can independently be used for research on language and professional biographies as well as professional dispositions, and attitudes of foreign language teachers provide valuable insights into biographical formations. Similarly, it can be deployed for research on the foreign language learner, too.
The working steps of the documentary method are being illustrated on the basis of concrete examples so that the book can be used by researchers as well as by students as a methodological introduction.
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Contents
1 Introduction: The reconstructive approach to foreign language teaching and learning
2 The reconstruction of sense in the foreign language classroom
2.1.1 Methodologically controlled foreign understanding
2.1.2 Discourse development in foreign language teaching
2.1.3 The indexicality of communication
2.1.6 Interlanguage and language awareness
2.1.7 Learning group milieus and conjunctive realms of experience
2.1.8 A social-interactional teaching and learning model in foreign language teaching
2.2.1 Communication via literary texts
2.2.2 Communication via visual texts
2.3.2 Sample task: Personal description
2.4 Communication about experiences in the foreign language classroom, about teaching and about learning languages
3 Procedural steps of the documentary method
3.1 Group discussion and class discussion
3.1.1 Participant observation, audio recording and transcription
3.1.2 Formulating interpretation
3.1.3 Reflecting interpretation
3.1.5 Typification ←9 | 10→
3.2.1 Formal interview analysis
3.2.2 Contentual interview analysis
3.2.3 Case description and case comparison
Details
- Pages
- 214
- Publication Year
- 2018
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631736487
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631736494
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631736500
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631736364
- DOI
- 10.3726/b12039
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2018 (May)
- Keywords
- Levels of sense foreign languages classroom research practices classroom interaction interview
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2018. 214 S., 4 s/w Abb., 16 s/w Tab.
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Biographical notes
Bernd Tesch (Author)
Bernd Michael Tesch is professor of foreign language teaching and learning research centred on the didactics of French and Spanish at the university of Kassel (Germany). He has worked as a teacher at state schools at home and abroad and at the Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB) in Berlin.
