为推动公司英语教师的专业发展，教师发展中心联合菠菜网最稳定正规平台近期推出了英语教师专业发展工作坊，邀请全球最大的菠菜网大云山讲座教授郑东萍博士开展系列讲座“NewPerspectives on Language Education: What can we truly learn fromEast and West?” 郑东萍教授于2006年获得University of Connecticut教育心理学博士，现任夏威夷大学二语研究系副教授。主要研究应用生态心理学，对话学，分布认知及语言来扩张以人为中心的传统二语习得理论。具体课题研究包括虚拟游戏空间环境对语言认知的影响，和以移动无限通讯技术为平台的游戏设计对扩展认知与学习空间，以及社会文化参与于认知的潜能的影响。

2016年4月21日下午，郑东萍博士系列讲座的首场讲座在院系办公楼245举行，讲座题目为“Ecological dialogical perspectives on language education: Examplesof abductive learning in virtual worlds”。现场气氛热烈，座无虚席，不少公司老师、员工和其他高校老师慕名前来听讲。她首先以在美国为购买衣柜开展的语言交际活动为例，生动地指出了中西方在哲学、语言、语言学习和教育方面的不同视角，同时肯定了中国儒家、道家思想等传统哲学在语言学习中的价值。在此基础上，郑教授详细讲解了EDD （eco-dialogical and distributed）Holistic Ontology理论，并提出Eco-dialogical Model （Zheng，2012）。最后，她演示了一段以ELAN软件处理的Eco-dialogical Model教学模式下员工就虚拟世界游戏展开的交流对话录像，并深入浅出地解释了“manipulative abduction”、“abductivelearning”、“distributed languaging”等概念。在场老师还就自己的研究问题向郑教授汇报请教，老师们对郑教授的精彩讲座充满兴趣，并期待在接下来的系列讲座中继续向郑教授学习。

附：郑东萍博士系列讲座时间与地点：

 

                       

日期	时间	主题	地点
4月21日（周四）	下午   2：30-4：30	Ecological  dialogical perspectives on language education: Examples of abductive learning  in virtual worlds	南校院系楼办公楼245室
4月28日（周四）		Project  and place-based learning: Affordances of mobile technologies for rethinking  learning and teaching.
5月5日 （周四）		Rethinking  language education from eco-dialogical and distributed (EDD) perspectives.
5月12日（周四）		Mobile-enabled  new learning spaces for expansion of diversity and agentic learning

 

讲座内容简介：

 

The first of fourtalksaddresses the confluence of design in relation to space-time,socioculturalplaces, activity and virtual artifacts in a multiuser 3D virtuallearningenvironment (3D VLE). Congruent with ecological and dialogicalperspectives inwhich sense-making is contingent on the relational dynamics ofmeshwork of theseaspects, this talk will be situated in a design-basedresearch project thatfocuses on designing problem-solving spaces thatencourage meaning-making insitu, manipulation of virtual objects within placesand coordination amongplayers.

 

The second talk willbe focusedon the argument for the need of project-based learning andplace-based learningin the 21st century education in the social affordances ofmobile technologies.The following points will be specially demonstrated: 1)how we can design mobilegames to encourage distributed language learning; 2)how this immersionexperience in real physical places affects linguistic andcultural acquisitionand communication in situ; and 3) how (trans)languaging isdynamically executedin the wild with virtual content present.

 

In the third talk,suggestionswill be made to rethink the following issues on language teachereducation: 1)From student-centered pedagogy to a networked distributed system;2) Fromtask-based learning to project-based learning; 3) Fromlearner-teacherrelationship to novice-expert dynamics. In addition to anadvocacy of rethinkingour current language education models, the speaker willshare some methods,experiences and insights on how to create a distributedsystem in which bothnovices and experts are held accountable for learning.

 

In the fourth talk,the speakerwill provide an account of designing a new learning space that hasthe potentialof bridging the sociocultural material-laden spaces and schoolspaces. This newlearning space is mobile, agent-driven, literacy-focused,socioculural andecological.