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The effectiveness of second language teacher education programs in changing pre-service teachers’ beliefs
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Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies Research Colloquium 2022.
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Preparing teachers to support multilingual learners through translanguaging and multiliteracies pedagogies in K-12 classrooms
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The Symposium 2021 is being presented by CERLL. This event is a collaboration with the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the Faculty of Education at Western University, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and the Faculty of Education at York University, as well as the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Waterloo.
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Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies Research Colloquium 2021.
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Extended Reality technologies for experiential learning in virtual language education and research
Book cover for Studies and Essays on Learning, Teaching and Assessing L2 Writing in Honour of Alister Cumming.
Some of Professor Alister Cumming’s former students assembled a book in his honour consisting of chapters by former students and colleagues. They invited Lourdes Ortega of Georgetown University to comment on the book; she and Professor Alister Cumming worked together on the journal Language Learning for many years.
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The Symposium 2021 is being presented by CERLL. This event is a collaboration with the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the Faculty of Education at Western University, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and the Faculty of Education at York University, as well as the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Waterloo.
Book cover for The Action-oriented approach: A dynamic vision of language education.
This book presents the background to this current shift towards action-oriented teaching and provides a theorization of the approach. It discusses the concepts and theories that paved the way for the actional turn and explores their relevance for the way language education is conceived and implemented in the classroom. In the process, it revisits the concept of competence and discusses the dynamic notions of mediation and plurilingualism.
Book cover for The Mind on Paper.
Many people seem to be convinced that all more recent developments in language methodologies, for example task-based language teaching, are just a refinement or extension of the communicative approach. However, by seeing the user/learner as a social agent engaging in different types of language activities, mediating to (co)construct meaning and building on their language repertoire, the Action-oriented Approach (AoA) broadens the scope of language education and introduces a shift towards motivating, realistic, project-based language teaching linked to the promotion of interculturality.

This book presents the background to this current shift towards action-oriented teaching and provides a theorization of the approach. It discusses the concepts and theories that paved the way for the actional turn and explores their relevance for the way language education is conceived and implemented in the classroom. In the process, it revisits the concept of competence and discusses the dynamic notions of mediation and plurilingualism.

The book provides scholars and practitioners with a research-informed description of the AoA, and explains its implications for curriculum planning, teaching, and assessment.