SECOND LANGUAGE ACUQUISITION A Resource for Changing teacher´s Profesional Cultures
Dec 17, 2015
Markee`s THEORITICALFramework on howTo maange educational innovations.
WHO
ADOPTS
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
WHY
HOW
WHO
Stakeholders
Clients SuppliersAdoptersResisters
ImplementersAgents of Change
SLA RESEARCHERS Curriculum Specialists Teachers Administrators Parents
Change Teaching
External ChangeInternal Change
Teachers
Implement Change
RESERCHERSTeacher Educators
Publishers
For different
like
TBLT
PRIMARY INNOVATIONS
Secondary Innovations
Improving Communication
Networks
Improve Knowledge on TBLT
Improve Monitoring and Evaluation
Protocols
YES
NO
RESEARCHER TEACHER
Communication
Work on THEORITICAL aspects
Interaction betwwen RESEARCHERS and teachers is limited
Implementationof innovations
EcologicalAppropriateness
Specific Contextof implementation
Context is Changeable
CulturalPoliticalAdministrativeEducationalInstitutional
WHEN
WHEN
InnovationsSlow Diffusion
Burst of Activity
Preliminary Phase
Adoption
SLA RESEARCH How much is applied?
TBLT Way to go…
??
CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATIONS
Triability
Advantages
Complexity
Observability
Feasability
Explicitiness
AdaptabilityOriginality
Form
Compatibility
1- Concrete
2- Clear
3- Moderate level of originality
4- Not so highly enginnered
5- Consistent with teacher´s pedagogical purposes
6- Logisticly doable
7- Flexible to accomodate secondary innovations
PERSPECTIVES ON HOW SOCIAL CHANGE OCCURS
Research, development
and Diffusion Model
The Center Periphery Model
Problem Solving Model
Linkage Model
Complemenmted by empirical-rational change
strategies
Employs power-cohercive
change strategies
Uses normative-reeducative
change strategies
Uses any of the strategies employed by
the other methods
Top-Down Models
Bottom-Up Approach
Promotes long-lasting
Change
Reserch should be grounded to real life
RESEARCH would be more relevant to teacher
concerns
Teachers` action research ´can support SLA THEORY
Better SLA RESEARCH
RESERCHERS include a a wide
range of sociocultural factors
RESEARCHERSMust accept teachers
action research
Teachers´experience on TBLT is very valuable
Teachers professionalization already
exists in some places
Teachers`action research should not be considered
of lower quality
Teachers should receive instruction on how
to conduct RESEARCH
Professionally prepared teachers are
better teachers
Teachers´ professionalization can be implemented everywhere
CHANGES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING THAT WOULD PROMOTE TBLT