One challenge that second language (L2) teachers face in their instructional practice is that learners may approach the language learning process with limited knowledge of how to use specific language learning strategies to enhance their learning, and/or with certain beliefs that negatively impact their L2 learning, all in the backdrop of increasing dependence on Artificial Intelligence (AI). These variables may stem from previous learning experiences or teaching methodologies.
One way in which L2 instructors could help learners enhance the success of their learning experiences is by providing explicit learner training that better orients learners to the L2 learning process to enhance their learning and foster their learner autonomy. Such training involves work to support learners' metacognition and self-regulation skills and enhance learner beliefs conducive to L2 learning. It also involves providing learner training that helps learners utilize AI potentials in more informed ways to support their learning. This talk provides teachers with principles and strategies that support their learner training work.
Speaker name: Dr. Lama Nassif
Speaker Bio: Dr. Lama Nassif is Associate Teaching Professor of Arabic Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ). Prior to joining CMUQ this fall, she taught Arabic and Linguistics at Williams College, Middlebury College, The University of Texas at Austin, and was Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She also previously served as Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) – Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Resources Fellow in Jordan in 2022-2023, where she worked on advancing QRF’s focus on research-informed pedagogies, and designing approaches to promote the uptake of educational research for teachers, teacher trainers, and policy makers. Dr. Nassif’s research focuses on noticing and attention in second language (L2) development, sociolinguistic development in L2 Arabic acquisition, and the interface between L2 research and pedagogy, and her published work in these two strands appears in peer-reviewed, international journals. Her most recent project is a book manuscript entitled Teaching Grammar in the L2 Arabic Classroom: A Focus on Form Practice. Under contract with Routledge, it combines noticing and attention in SLA research with pedagogical practices in the teaching of L2 Arabic grammar.
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Do you have a question regarding the seminar? Please contact Carla el Khoury, a lecturer in Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.