Global Perspectives on Project-Based Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment

This volume provides a comprehensive account of project-based language learning (PBLL) which showcases key theoretical approaches, empirical research, technological tools, and research-based frameworks to help further PBLL implementation and research.

Autorentext

Gulbahar H. Beckett is a professor at Iowa State University. She has conducted numerous studies and published widely including on project-based second/foreign language acquisition and socialization; content-based second/foreign language education; language policies; technology integrated teaching and learning; academic language and literacy socialization, and globalization.

Tammy Slater, an associate professor at Iowa State University, researches primarily using analytic methods drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics. She has published widely on the development of academic language through content-based and project-based teaching and learning, particularly as these inform the field of education for English language learners.

Inhalt

Part 1: Philosophical, Theoretical, and Empirical Models of PBLL 1. Philosophical Foundation, Theoretical Approaches, and Gaps in the Literature 2. Researching Project-Based Learning: A Review and a Look Ahead at Form and Function in Writing Part 2: Empirical Research on Technology-Mediated PBLL 3. Translanguaging in Project-Based Language Learning 4. Project-Based Learning in the Advanced German Class: Integrated Content and Language Learning 5. Plagues Infecting a Medical School: A Case for Authentic Video Games to Promote Motivation, Engagement, and Acquisition 6. Students Co-learning Linguistics through PBL: A Cross-Cultural Telecollaborative Implementation 7. What Do You Zinc About the Project?': Examples of Technology-Enhanced Project-Based Language Learning 8. Bridging Cross-Cultural Teaching Practices with Technology-Enriched PBLL in Chinese as a Foreign Language Education Part 3: Frameworks for Technology-Mediated PBLL 9. A Framework for Learning with Digital Resources: Applications for Project-Based Language Learning 10. The Knowledge Framework: An Organizational Tool for Highlighting the "LL" in Technology-integrated PBLL 11. Using the Knowledge Framework and Genre Pedagogy for Technology-Enhanced Form-Function Project-Based Language Learning 12. A Research-Based Framework for Assessing Technology-Infused PBLL 13. Altering the View of Language Instruction in Project-Based Learning: Examining the Bilingual Teachers' Unit Design Experience 14. Beyond Exams: Research-Based Dynamic, Technology-Mediated, Project-Based Framework for Meaningful Language Learning in a Secondary EFL Setting in China