Transformation, Embodiment, and Wellbeing in Foreign Language Pedagogy

Enacting Deep Learning

Joseph Shaules, Troy McConachy, Joseph Shaules, Troy McConachy

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781350254527
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350254503
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This volume introduces pedagogical approaches and empirical studies that emphasize deeper, embodied engagement with language, the transformative potential of the language learning experience, and the importance of learner and teacher well-being. A deep learning orientation sees foreign language learning not as a psychologically neutral process of internalising linguistic rules but as an embodied process that is intimately tied to learners' experience of self, including emotion, body states, metaphoric understanding, aesthetic sensibilities, and moral intuitions. This volume challenges language teachers and teacher trainers to move beyond instrumentalist views of language learning, to recognise the deeply impactful nature of the language learning experience, and to consider how language pedagogy can contribute to the development of the learner as a whole person.

Chapters in this volume consider the enactment of deep learning from diverse theoretical perspectives, including positive psychology, embodied cognition, cognitive linguistics, motivational theory, literary theory, and moral psychology. The volume provides language teachers, teacher trainers and applied linguists with concrete insights into the multidisciplinary foundations of conceptualizing, planning, and implementing deep learning in language classrooms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Enacting Deep Learning in Foreign Language Pedagogy
• 1 Deep Linguaculture Learning in Transformative, Holistic, and Contemplative-Reflective Forms
• 2 Language Learning as a Transformative Experience of Resistance, Adjustment, and Change
• 3 Holistic Views of Language Learning in Metaphoric Conceptualizations
• 4 Humanistic Motivation and Transformative Language Engagement
• 5 Developing Embodied Learning Activities to Teach English Causatives
• 6 Encouraging Deep Learning through an Interactive, Intercultural Approach to Shakespeare
• 7 Reader Response, Aesthetics, and Deep Learning in the German Language-Culture Classroom
• 8 Exploring Pragmatic Resistance and Moral Emotions in Foreign Language Learning
• 9 Positive Psychology Activities for Promoting Emotion Regulation and Wellbeing in Language Teacher Education
• Index
• Imprint