FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W1887820144> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W1887820144 abstract "This thesis is a complexity-informed case study of a language school in Greece, which provides a rich description of how language pedagogy develops in the periphery of the English-using world. In addition, this study demonstrates the feasibility and potential of using Complex Systems Theory (CST) in the study of educational settings. The thesis begins by describing English Language Teaching (ELT) in Greece, thus setting the scene for the empirical investigation. This is followed by a review of ELT literature, with particular reference to theories of language, pedagogy and society, and by an overview of CST, which pragmatically synthesises complex realism and post-modern ways of knowing, and defines a set of principles to guide complexity-informed empirical inquiry. Having conceptualised the language school as a complex system, it is suggested that activity in the school was sustained by multiple intentionalities, i.e., collective, emergent, nested and generative drivers of activity. These included: (a) an imperative to provide certification to learners, (b) some learners? desire to integrate in transnational discourse communities, (c) the expectation that language learning should lead to increased awareness of ?English? culture, (d) competition against the state school system, and (e) the unstated aim of protecting the professional interests of the school?s staff and stakeholders. Intentionalities were associated with specific pedagogical outcomes and cultural outlooks, and their synthesis is defined as a dynamic of intentions. Next, the thesis looks into the learning materials used at the language school, and it is suggested that these generate affordances which impacted pedagogy. The distribution of learning activities in the books was associated with synchronic and diachronic changes in the dynamics of intentions underpinning activity in the school. Complexity-inspired conceptual instruments, such as an ?affordance landscape? and ?attractors?, are developed to describe the influence of the learning materials, and it is suggested that the learning resources used at the language school made transmissive and communicative pedagogy more likely. The empirical component of the study concludes by describing prototypical instruction sequences that typified ELT in the language school, which evidenced traces of transmissive and communicative pedagogy. Some sequences (e.g., Reading and Vocabulary, and Transmissive Grammar) evidenced transmissive influences, which were associated with local pedagogical traditions, whereas others, such as Process-Based Writing, were more closely aligned with the communicative ideology that is mainstream in ELT. The thesis concludes by synthesising the findings with insights from the CST literature. In doing so, it demonstrates the theoretically generative potential of a complexity-informed inquiry, which can help to formulate understandings of ELT that are sensitive to the interface between systems and their environments, while providing ontologically coherent accounts of structure and agency, and of behaviours that are neither completely random nor entirely predictable. ?" @default.
• W1887820144 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W1887820144 creator A5054254754 @default.
• W1887820144 date "2015-02-24" @default.
• W1887820144 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W1887820144 title "A complex systems perspective on English Language Teaching: A case study of a language school in Greece" @default.
• W1887820144 hasPublicationYear "2015" @default.
• W1887820144 type Work @default.
• W1887820144 sameAs 1887820144 @default.
• W1887820144 citedByCount "2" @default.
• W1887820144 countsByYear W18878201442015 @default.
• W1887820144 countsByYear W18878201442020 @default.
• W1887820144 crossrefType "dissertation" @default.
• W1887820144 hasAuthorship W1887820144A5054254754 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C123960582 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C12713177 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C145420912 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C154945302 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C166007726 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C177264268 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C180747234 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C19417346 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C194995250 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C199360897 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConcept C74672266 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C123960582 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C12713177 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C144024400 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C145420912 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C154945302 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C15744967 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C166007726 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C177264268 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C180747234 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C19417346 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C194995250 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C199360897 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C41008148 @default.
• W1887820144 hasConceptScore W1887820144C74672266 @default.
• W1887820144 hasLocation W18878201441 @default.
• W1887820144 hasOpenAccess W1887820144 @default.
• W1887820144 hasPrimaryLocation W18878201441 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W1737113273 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W196594916 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W1987317770 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2063955688 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2068249779 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2076377468 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2088908533 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2098708281 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2159428839 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2172156890 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2283132151 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2293833315 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2398384348 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2502291288 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2625375964 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2794605048 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2809785215 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W2961624347 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W3038150854 @default.
• W1887820144 hasRelatedWork W98761024 @default.
• W1887820144 isParatext "false" @default.
• W1887820144 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W1887820144 magId "1887820144" @default.
• W1887820144 workType "dissertation" @default.