Kurt Kohn about the pedagogical lingua franca approach

Gepostet am: Apr 29, 2018 5:38:48 PM

Many of the TeCoLa telecollaboration exchanges adopt a pedagogical lingua franca approach. According to this approach, the telecollaborating students communicate and interact with each other in their common target language. In the TeCoLa context, this mainly involves English, French, German or Spanish.

In his plenary talk at the 53rd RELC Conference in Singapore, 12 March 2018, Kurt explains the social constructivist underpinnings of using English as a pedagogical lingua franca and addresses the role of intercultural telecollaboration in this context. A video recording can be viewed on Youtube.

The talk mainly draws on three articles:

• • Kohn, K. (2018). MY English - a social constructivist perspective on ELF. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 7/1: 1-24, doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2018-0001

  • Kohn, K. (2018). Towards the reconciliation of ELF and EFL: Theoretical issues and pedagogical challenges. In N. Sifakis & N. Tsantila (eds.), ELF in EFL Contexts. Bristol: Multilingual Matters (to appear in Oct 2018).

  • Kohn, K. and Hoffstaedter, P. (2017). Learner agency and non-native speaker identity in pedagogical lingua franca conversations: Insights from intercultural telecollaboration in foreign language education. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30/5: 351-367, doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2017.1304966