"Lingua e Comunità in Coro": A Community Choir as a Space for Language Learning, Social Interaction, and Wellbeing

Autor/inn/en	Kennedy, Claire; Miceli, Tiziana
Titel	"Lingua e Comunità in Coro": A Community Choir as a Space for Language Learning, Social Interaction, and Wellbeing
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40 (2017) 2, S.140-158 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.1075/aral.40.2.04ken
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Cultural Awareness; Native Speakers; Italian; Language Proficiency; Singing; Music Activities; Social Support Groups; Friendship; Anxiety; Stress Variables; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Community Organizations; Music Education; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; Semi Structured Interviews; Student Attitudes; Diaries; Worksheets; Teacher Attitudes; Intercultural Communication; Questionnaires; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Muttersprachler; Italienisch; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Gesang; Musikalische Aktion; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Freundschaft; Angst; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Fakultät; Ausland; Musikerziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Diary; Tagebuch; Lehrerverhalten; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Fragebogen; Australien
Abstract	This article concerns a special learning space populated by Italians and Italian learners: the choir formed in Brisbane as a joint initiative between a community association and the Italian teaching staff at Griffith University. Our aim, in involving our students in the choir, was to bring them together with L1 speakers in an environment that would be stimulating but supportive, given the collective, creative goal. We envisaged that interaction in this space would help develop the students' language proficiency, intercultural competence, and cultural knowledge, while also bringing the psychosocial benefits of choral singing identified by recent research. These benefits include positive emotions, social support and friendship, an antidote to anxiety and stress, and a shared sense of commitment. Evaluation of findings from the project suggest that the choir did foster students' learning together with wellbeing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01