Perceiving and traversing in-class and out-of-class learning: Accounts from foreign language learners in Hong Kong

Perceiving and traversing in-class and out-of-class learning: Accounts from foreign language learners in Hong Kong

• Lai, Chun Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1-20, 2014

Routledge

2014

• N Students & Student Services
  • NN Overseas Students in Hong Kong
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching

Informal Learning Out-of-class Learning Connection Between In-class and Out-of-class Learning Construction of A Language Learning Ecology Self-directed Language Learning

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Learning takes place across different social contexts, and understanding how learners perceive and traverse different learning contexts enables educators to gain a more comprehensive view of their learning processes and to support their learning better. This study examined how undergraduate foreign language learners perceived their learning experiences inside and outside language classrooms, and how they bridged their learning experiences in the two contexts. Individual interviews with 11 undergraduate foreign language learners in Hong Kong showed that the learners perceived in-class and out-of-class language learning contexts as affording different functions, and they acted on the affordances of the two contexts to create complementary and synergetic learning experiences across the two. The study further revealed a list of resource features and learner factors that shaped how the learners perceived and acted on the resources. The findings suggest that educational structures should be set up to reinforce the integration of learning experiences across in-class and out-of-class contexts.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 17501229

• 10.1080/17501229.2014.918982

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/2ad5cc89

2014-10-22