Constructivism and mediated learning in designing English-as-a foreign-language instruction

Description

Social interaction is the foundation of knowledge construction in a constructivist classroom. This project proposes a mediated instruction that is based on the theory of constructivism and social interaction to help new adult immigrants successfully achieve English competence and adapt quickly to the culture of the United States.

Links & Downloads

1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2744
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3762&context=etd-project

Tags

Adult education students

Constructivism (Education)

Reading Language experience approach

Social interaction

Adult education students

Constructivism (Education)

English language

Reading Language experience approach

Social interaction.

Education

First and Second Language Acquisition

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-3762
Date	01 January 2005
Creators	Chen, Chun-Hsiu
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project