11月20日晚，香港教育大学青年学者杨茵(在读博士)应语言教育与测评中心(CLEAR)邀请，在腾讯会议线上平台为我校师生做了题为The myth of primary students’ self-regulated English vocabulary learning leveraged by the mobile app with a self-regulation scheme的学术报告。报告由CLEAR中心主任蔡雨阳教授主持，我院雷春林副院⻓、上海外国语大学国际教育学院金慧院长出席。来自我校、上海外国语大学、兰州大学、首都医科大学等学校共计四十余名师生参加了本次讲座。
Invited by CLEAR, Miss Yin Yang gave an online seminar entitled The Myth of Primary Students' Self-Regulated English Vocabulary Learning Leveraged by the Mobile App with a Self-regulation Scheme on November 20. The talk was chaired by Professor Yuyang Cai, director of the CLEAR. The audience included Dr Chunlin Lei (Associate Dean of School of Languages), Professor Hui Jin (Dean of Faculty of Education of Shanghai International Studies University). Besides, the seminar was crowded by more than 40 teachers and doctoral and master’s students from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai International Studies University, Lanzhou University, and Capital Medical University.
讲座伊始，报告人杨茵介绍了自己的学术背景以及所参与的研究项目。随后，杨茵报告人从研究背景、移动应用设计、实证研究三个方面入手，详细介绍了手机应用程序对小学生英语词汇自主学习的影响。她指出，词汇学习在英语学习过程中起着核心作用，因为单词是英语的基本组成部分。然而当前的词汇学习往往以教师为主导，依靠死记硬背，学生很难将课堂上学到的知识应用到现实生活中。幸运的是，技术的发展使词汇学习变得更加灵活便捷。在此基础上，杨茵所在的香港教育大学团队（由香港教育大学副教授宋燕捷主导）开发了一款名为Vocab+的移动应用。该应用以自我调节学习理论为指导，允许学生自主设定学习目标，监控学习过程，并且能对学生的学习表现给出个性化反馈，从而将传统的以教师为主导的词汇学习转变为以学生为主导，更加关注学生的个性化需求。接着，报告人杨茵介绍了两个实证研究，深入探讨了手机应用程序对小学生自主词汇学习的促进作用，以及小学生在手机应用程序上的自主词汇学习行为与相关学习结果。除此之外，报告人还提出了对未来研究的展望。她表示在未来将考虑同现代语言学习理论如岛脊曲线理论相结合开展纵向研究。
The seminar kicked off by Miss Yang’s brief introduction to her academic background. Subsequently, the speaker gave a comprehensive review of the impact of mobile phone applications on primary school students’ self-regulated vocabulary learning from three aspects: research background, design of the mobile app, and empirical studies. Yin pointed out that vocabulary learning was central to English language acquisition because words are the basic building blocks of English. However, current vocabulary learning was usually teacher-centered and relied on rote memorization, making it difficult for students to apply what they have learned in class to real-life contexts.
Fortunately, the development of technology has made vocabulary learning more flexible and convenient. On this basis, Yin and her research team (led by Dr Yanjie Song, an associate professor at the Education University of Hong Kong) have developed a mobile App called “Vocab+”. Guided by the self-regulated learning scheme, the App allows students to set their own learning goals, and monitor their learning process. Moreover, the application can provide personalized feedback on students’ learning performance. In this sense, this application can transform traditional teacher-centered vocabulary learning to be student-oriented, thereby better satisfying students’ personalized needs.
Subsequently, Miss Yang introduced two of her empirical studies on mobile applications for primary school students’ self-regulated vocabulary learning. At the end of her presentation, Miss Yang proposed that future studies on technology-based vocabulary learning need to address the dynamic change of vocabulary development. Moreover, she proposed that future longitudinal endeavors need to be guided by modern learning theories such as the Island Ridge Curve (IRC).
报告的互动环节，报告人与参会师生进行了长达一小时的互动。会后大家纷纷表示报告非常生动有趣而且收获颇丰。
During the interaction section, the speaker discussed with the audience on various issues related to technology-enhanced learning asked by the audience from the perspectives of language instructors, language researchers, and students pursing an academic career. After the event, quite a few teachers and students commented that they really enjoyed the talk which was not only interesting but also insightful.
撰稿:朱立萍