Paradigm Shift: Understanding and Implementing Change in Second Language Education.

Autor/inn/en	Jacobs, George M.; Farrell, Thomas S.C.
Titel	Paradigm Shift: Understanding and Implementing Change in Second Language Education.
Quelle	In: Teaching English as a second or foreign language, 5 (2001) 1, S. 1-16 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben; Grafiken; Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-4303
Schlagwörter	Methodenwechsel; Soziales Lernen; Lernerorientierung; Prozessorientierung; Lehrplan; Kommunikativer Ansatz; Vergleichende Analyse; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Terminologie
Abstract	Change seems to be a constant in education. We can better understand and implement change in second language education if we look for connections between changes. The concept of paradigm shift offers one means of making such connections. The article describes eight changes that fit with the paradigm shift in second language education toward what is most often described as communicative language teaching. These eight changes are: learner autonomy, cooperative learning, curricular integration, focus on meaning, diversity, thinking skills, alternative assessment and teachers as co-learners. The paradigm shift of which these changes are part is put into perspective as an element of larger shifts from positivism to post-positivism and from behaviorism to cognitivism. The authors argue that in second language education, although the paradigm shift was initiated many years ago, it still has been only partially implemented. Two reasons for this partial implementation are: (1) by trying to understand each change separately, second language educators have weakened their understanding by missing the larger picture; and (2) by trying to implement each change separately, second language educators have made the difficult task of change even more difficult. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2023/1