Vor­trag: Dr. Gail Forey (Se­ni­or Lec­tu­rer, Uni­ver­si­ty of Bath) "The Value of Meaning-​focused Me­talan­guage for Tea­ching and Lear­ning"

Zeit: 18:15 - 19:45;

Ort: WU, Ge­bäu­de D2, Ein­gang D, 2.OG, Raum D2.2.228

Abs­tract: Wit­hin schools ex­pli­cit know­ledge and use of me­talan­guage, words or sym­bols used to talk about lan­guage, is often in­clu­ded in the Eng­lish, or For­eign Lan­guage cur­ri­cu­la, and yet fre­quent­ly ab­sent in other cur­ri­cu­lum areas. Even wit­hin lan­guage and li­ter­a­cy pro­gram­mes the ex­tent to which me­talan­guage has been in­cor­po­ra­ted and em­braced va­ries great­ly for tea­chers and lear­ners. In ad­di­ti­on, the in­tro­duc­tion and use of me­ta­lin­gu­is­tic re­sour­ces and ter­mi­no­lo­gy is con­ten­tious and rai­ses many ques­ti­ons, e.g. why in­tro­du­ce me­talan­guage and ter­mi­no­lo­gy? When and what ter­mi­no­lo­gy should be in­tro­du­ced? Should me­talan­guage adopt com­mon­sen­se or tech­ni­cal terms? In this paper, drawing on data from working with tea­chers and lear­ners at schools in Hong Kong and the UK, I ex­ami­ne the be­ne­fits of in­tro­du­cing me­talan­guage for lear­ning and tea­ching cur­ri­cu­lum goals.