ERIC Number: EJ1406635
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 12
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Hebrew in Tel Aviv, Beijing, Denver, and Melbourne: Assessing Peer Learning in a Multicultural Environment
Dolly Eliyahu-Levi; Sigal Chen
Interactive Learning Environments, v31 n10 p7005-7016 2023
This article evaluates a curriculum based on a peer-learning model between seven Israeli students whose Hebrew is their mother tongue and thirty-nine peer students from around the world who have chosen to study Hebrew as a foreign language. The aim of the program is to improve foreign language discourse skills through intra-personal and inter-personal interaction in multicultural, personal, and authentic contexts of the students. The described assessment approach, the circular model of Stuffelbeam - CIPP, examines students' experiences and focuses on their perceptions and actions in the program sessions to provide a more applied and accurate response to needs that arise from the field and improve for the coming years. The findings were collected from a digital portfolio that includes three parts: (1) documentation; (2) reflective process; and (3) meta-cognitive. We found that students face challenges: (1) content; (2) feedback; and (3) technology. Peer learning exposed the students to the skills of learning together and increased their motivation to get to know others and construct new meanings about content, ways of teaching, and innovative pedagogy that emphasizes the involvement of learners, autonomous learning, personal responsibility, and self-regulation in the learning process.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Multicultural Education, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education, College Students, Electronic Learning, Dialogs (Language)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel (Tel Aviv); China (Beijing); Colorado; Australia
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