The impact of Globalisation on Language Learning

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AFMLTA Conference Sydney9-12 July 2009

The impact of Globalisation on Language learning – a Japanese

classroom example

Gabriella BertolissiBertolissi.gabriella.r@edumail.vic.gov.au

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

A smaller connected world

Playing for change – Stand By Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI_0Hyn57Lk&feature=fvst

Globalisation defined:The tendency of businesses,

technologies, or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen. The

global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally

interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or

national boundaries.http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/

0,,sid182_gci925944,00.html

Globalisation defined:

Globalization implies opening out beyond local and nationalistic

perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and inter-

dependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across

national frontiers.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/globalization.html

Those in favour: potential to create greater

opportunities for growth throughout the world, benefiting the developed nations while leveling the playing field everywhere else

Those against: could eradicate regional diversity and

lead to a homogenized world culture

Global Village

The world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications

Concise Oxford English dictionary revised tenth edition 2002

Quotes

‘Language skills and cultural sensitivity will be the new currency of this world order’ (Cosgrove 2002).

Quotes

To compete in a globalised world it is essential to learn another Language

Ms. Lidia Faranda-LOTE Regional Project Officer, Northern Region DEECD Victoria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdxP85ouT9c

Can Finland be wrong?

Quotes

“..learning another language is the quickest way to understanding that the way you think about the world is not universal; it is shaped by your culture”

(Wesley 2009)

Policy

Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA) 5 December 2008Sets the direction for Australian schooling for the next 10 years

“In the 21st century Australia’s capacity to provide a high quality of life for all will depend on the ability to compete in the global economy on knowledge and innovation.”Acknowledges major changes in the worldGlobal integration and international mobility have increased rapidly in the past decade… the need to nurture an appreciation of and respect for social, cultural and religious diversity, and a sense of global citizenship.Australians need to become ‘Asia literate’, engaging and building strong relationships with Asia. Globalisation and technological changes.. Australia’s young people must be encouraged not only to complete secondary education, but also to proceed into further training or education.

Melbourne declaration

Goal 1:Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence

Goal 2: All young Australians become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens

The Goal?

Students who have a global outlook, well-developed cultural intelligence and an international language

Curriculum Corporation –Winter 09Asia literacy-our future p.3

Developing a new global mindset: Cross –cultural

competency

All human beings are considered as “us” To understand others requires us to interact

with others directly Interacting requires the ability to move across

cultures comfortably and fluently The ability to use language + a DEEP

understanding of the culture

Prof. Yong Zhau, Michigan State University

What is Culture?

‘A culture is the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning’

(Bates & Plog, 1990)

Cross-cultural competency

‘to penetrate below the surface’ of other cultures (Dewey, 1983)

To experience the culture in context The ability to live in different cultures and

move across different cultures fluently A psychological ability that includes

surmounting difference in ways of thinking, value systems, and habits of mind in other countries (Dewey, 1983)

An ability to navigate difference

Cross-cultural competency

‘To understand a culture, you have to know the language’Year 12 Victorian Student of Japanese (trilingual European background, 2009)

Communicative language competency yes, but also a window into shared beliefs, values, customs behaviours that characterise a society

Intercultural Capability

The capability to move between (at least) two linguistic and cultural systems

(A. Scarino 2009)

Developed in and through Languages and in and through the curriculum as a whole

Policy- Education for Global and Multicultural Citizenship

A strategy for Victorian Government Schools 2009-2013

Developing the intercultural literacies that students, parents, educators and leadership groups need to live and work as part of a diverse and globalised population

Building and sustaining inclusive and participative school-community partnerships that prepare all students for global and multicultural citizenship

Affirming the importance of equipping Victorian students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to live and work in a culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse society where the LOCAL IS GLOBAL and the GLOBAL, LOCAL.

Policy-DEECD

An interculturally literate person possesses the skills, knowledge, understanding and attitudes required to form relationships and collaborate with others across cultures.

..value, respect and explore cultural differences,..reflect..and participate fully in cross-cultural interactions

(DEECD 2009)

Curriculum P-10 Victorian Essential Learning Standards

(VELS) Address the economic and social changes associated with the

development of our global, knowledge-based world and their implications for schools

Are a framework of essential learning –Physical, Personal and Social Learning, Discipline-based Learning and Interdisciplinary Learning.

Equip students with capacities to: manage themselves and relations with others, understand the world and act effectively in that world

LOTE – 2 dimensions for reporting Communicating in a language other than English

Intercultural knowledge and language awareness

Federal Initiatives- Australian Schooling

Skill and capacity building – teachers and students- ACARA, National Curriculum, national testing, Professional Standards Project

Building the Education Revolution program - $1 billion for 500 language learning centres and science laboratories

National Asian Languages Studies in Schools Program (NALSSP) -$62.4m over 3 years learning languages and cultural understanding

Digital education revolution– a computer for each teacher and student yrs 9-12; fast broadband access; e-education

The changing LOTE classroom

Instant communication and information via electronic media

Internet Multimedia –interactive using sound, pictures, video and

text Interactive whiteboards, skype, google earth Web 2.0 technologies – active participation e g language

discovery online communication DEECD Emerging Technology Trials – use of mobile

phones, wikis, blogs, podcasts, video/photo sharing and social networking services in the classroom

DEECD languagesonline -40,000 hits weekly.

Maximising the use of interactive communication

technologies

Increases language and cultural competencies by opening the classroom doors and making sure other countries are part of an Australian classroom

(Andrew Blair, Australian Secondary Principals Association President The Australian 27 June 2009)

Language Discovery ProjectLanguage Discovery Project

Language Discovery Inc.Language Discovery Inc.

Communication through different

languages and cultures

Email: info@languagediscovery.org Website: www.languagediscovery.org

Language DiscoveryLanguage Discovery® Fact Sheet® Fact Sheet

Innovative email program using Australian technology

Language and cultural exchange through direct communication with peers in Asia

Easy: Web palette based system, enabling students at all levels to work independently of teaching staff from school and home

61 Schools and over 5000 primary and secondary students users in Australia and Japan

In Australia: 28 primary & secondary schools mainly in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland

In Japan: 33 primary & secondary schools in mainly in Tokyo’s Machida, Suginami and Sumida Cities.

What is Language Discovery Project?What is Language Discovery Project?

The Language Discovery Project connects Australian and overseas students, making the outside world part of Australian students' daily life experience extending classroom boundaries.

Language Discovery Project centres around online programs.

Students learn the value of studying a second language by experiencing meaningful and purposeful use of language through actual communication with their overseas peers.

PM Rudd school visit (2008) Students’ visit to Victoria (2006)

PALETTE SamplePALETTE Sample

Create Japanese sentencesby selecting words in order

Search for words

Listen to pronunciation by native Japanese speaker

Word Palette for more variety of words

Video clips

PM Kevin Rudd in Japan 2008

Ms Michelle De La Coeur – Balnarring PS

Students from Moonee Ponds Central

Discourse Global Skills

Diversity Global Thinking

DialogueGlobal Engagement