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Publication Date: 2005
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Juggling with Language Learning Theories. [Videotape]
Murphey, Tim
National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii
Learning to juggle has become popular among corporate training programs because it shows participants how to appreciate mistakes and use "Intelligent Fast Failure" (learning quickly by daring to make a lot of simple mistakes at the beginning of a process). Big business also likes the way juggling can get executives "out of the box" and into a more creative, playful state to work in. All this results in increased productivity. This 48-minute video presents Tim Murphey's September 2004 workshop at University of Hawaii showing how effective steps for learning to juggle are often parallel to effective steps for learning foreign languages, or, indeed, learning anything. Academic theories of language learning can be made more concrete and visual in the learning-to-juggle process, making the theories easier to conceptualize as students see them in action and have immediate experiential information. Specifically, while participants learned to juggle, they looked at Krashen's five hypotheses, Long's adjustment hypothesis, Swain's output hypothesis, and several concepts from Vygotskian socio-cultural theory. When foreign/second language learners learn to juggle in their language classes, it can facilitate many general education beliefs and attitudes that support learning and help them become more meta-cognitive about their learning.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Theories, Corporate Education, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Workshops, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1859 East-West Road #106, Honolulu, HI 96822. Tel: 808-956-9424; Fax: 808-956-5983; e-mail: nflrc@hawaii.edu; Web site: http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu
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Authoring Institution: Hawaii Univ., Manoa. National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Identifiers - Location: Hawaii
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