FINDING A VOICE: SHINING A LIGHT ON THE EMOTIONAL DIMENSION IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION by Neda Mirova https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017 8 November 2017: Fiona James and Neda Mirova's Workshop: 3rd International Conference on Bilingual Education en-us 2017-10-27 14:01:11 UTC 2025-11-06 13:03:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png STAGE 4 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422523 2017-10-28 16:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422523 Glenn Gould, pianist gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422836 “If there’s one thing that one does attempt to do in making a recording , it is to make one thing perfectly clear, that one thing being one’s concept of the work.”]]> 2017-10-28 16:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422836 Earl Stevick: Teaching Languages - A Way and Ways gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422980  “success depends less on materials, techniques, and linguistic analysis, and more on what goes on inside and between the people in the classroom…I have begun to suspect that the most important aspect of ‘what goes on’ is the presence or absence of harmony — it is the parts working with, or against, one another. How such a thing may happen within and between the people in a language course is the subject of this book” (p.5). ]]> 2017-10-28 16:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201422980 STAGE 2: TIME TO REFLECT - LEARNING DIARIES gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201792633 2017-10-30 15:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201792633 STAGE 6: TIME TO REFLECT - LEARNING DIARIES gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201961617 2017-10-30 23:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201961617 STAGE 7: TO BE OR NOT TO BE gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201962080 2017-10-30 23:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201962080 Erich Fromm: To Have or To Be gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201962854 'To be' in Indo-European languages is expressed by the root es, the meaning of which is 'to have existence, to be found in reality'. Existence and reality are defined as 'that which is authentic, consistent, true'. (In Sanskrit, sant, 'existent', 'actual good', 'true'; superlative Sattama, 'the best'.) 'Being in its etymological root is thus more than a statement of identity between subject and attribute; it is more than a descriptive term for a phenomenon. It denotes the reality of existence of who or what is; it states his / her / its authenticity and truth. Stating that somebody or something is refers to the person's or the thing's essence, not to his / her / its appearance. (p.33)]]> 2017-10-30 23:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/201962854 “I don’t know if this journal had an effect on my language learning but it was a nice experience to feel that lecturer is interested in my feelings.” gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/202443641 Student feedback on the use of diaries, quoted in Mercer, S (2006: 78)
Mercer, S. (2006). Using Journals to Investigate the Learners’ Emotional Experience of the Classroom, Estudios de Linguistica Inglesa Aplicada 6 (2006): 63-91.]]> 2017-11-01 11:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/202443641 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/202462256 2017-11-01 12:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/202462256 STAGE 1: ATTENTION TO SPACE mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203122342 2017-11-02 21:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203122342 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203123385 2017-11-02 21:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203123385 STAGE 3: A GIFT mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203123435 2017-11-02 21:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203123435 The language of Silence mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203125971
“What changes the world is language, but what changes people is silence. Silence and language can appear to be opposites, but they are two sides of the same coin. For a word to be able to reach the heart of the listener, it must be preceded by silence. The criteria to measure whether a word has hit the target, has reached the heart  of the listener is precisely its ability to generate silence, creating inner spaciousness”
Biografía del Silencio - Pablo d’Ors, priest and writer]]> 2017-11-02 21:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203125971 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203126440 2017-11-02 21:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203126440 STAGE 5: PAY ATTENTION PLEASE mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203127206 2017-11-02 21:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203127206 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128267 2017-11-02 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128267 STAGE 9: STONES AND CIRCLES mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128296 2017-11-02 21:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128296 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENCE mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128887 2017-11-02 21:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203128887 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203129283 2017-11-02 21:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203129283 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203204795 2017-11-03 09:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203204795 STAGE 8 BUILDING IDENTITIES gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203347187 2017-11-03 15:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203347187 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524394 2017-11-04 11:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524394 7.2 Gandhi gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524571 2017-11-04 11:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524571 7.1 An Anecdote from Neda's Classroom gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524591 2017-11-04 11:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203524591 2. Awareness of own and others' cultural knowledge is the first step to building a multicompetent identity - sensitivity, empathy, tolerance, flexibility, openness. gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203526897 Average for Q1 5.75 compared to 3.42 for Q3 " I am aware when people from other cultures are not able to adapt their cultural references."]]> 2017-11-04 12:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203526897 1. Nonverbal Behaviour gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203527257 Research by Ambady and Rosenthal (cited in Dewaele 2011 found that there was a close correlation between teachers' nonverbal behaviour and end-of -year evaluations.]]> 2017-11-04 12:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203527257 4. Socialising gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203527649 The blue part corresponds to the mixed group of learners.]]> 2017-11-04 12:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203527649 3. How comfortable did learners feel about expressing opinions? gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528018 Mixed feelings... shocking people from own culture and worried about what people from other cultures may think...
'Willingness to communicate is a far more complicated
notion entailing the interplay of affect, the teacher and the learner’s
environment.'  (Wen, W. P.  & Clément, R. 2010:24)
]]> 2017-11-04 12:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528018 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528148 2017-11-04 12:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528148 Q39 Do you think that being in a monocultural or mixed group affects the development of intercultural communication skills when you are studying in the native culture, i.e. in your case in Britain on PELP? Comment on this briefly. gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528326 Responses were very varied. Most students pointed out the value of being in a mixed group and advantages of a mixed group. This is supported by the responses in Q37. Only one negative response. Longer responses from mixed group indicate that they are more willing to engage with the question.
Sofia, Chinese, monolingual group:
I have no chance to communicate with students from other countries and I can not practise my English oral speaking.
Susie, Chinese, monolingual group:
Yes it does. I remembered my English was the best in part2 as I was communicating with foreign students everyday.
Feride, Turkish, mixed group
Yes, I think being in a mixed group broadens horizons about new cultures instead of being in a monocultural group.
Mehmet, Turkish, mixed group
It affects in a positive way. It encourages me for better adaptation and better learn. [sic].
Saki, Japanese, mixed group
We can share information which we do not know so that we can develope [sic] critical thinking.
Mao, Japanese, mixed group
If I were in monocultural class, I could not improve my verbal communication skill smoothly




]]> 2017-11-04 12:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203528326 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203548757 2017-11-04 16:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203548757 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203610638 2017-11-05 10:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203610638 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203610647 2017-11-05 10:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203610647 Earl Stevick: Teaching Languages - A Way and Ways gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203613785 “It seems then, that when two people speak with each other in a language that is foreign to one of them, either or both may be laying their lives on the line - at least their lives as speakers of that language. Such an undertaking therefore calls for sensitivity on both sides. Sensitivity here means more than just seeing the dangers and shying away from them. It includes sensitivity to what the other person is able to do, and is ready to try.” (p.130)]]> 2017-11-05 11:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203613785 Earl Stevick - Memory, Meaning and Method gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203614091 "I must know who I think I am and who I think I am not; seeking or rejecting closer ties with various groups is one way in which I verify and maintain that image of myself; how I use languages is one way in which I communicate my desires relative to those groups.” (p.59)]]> 2017-11-05 11:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203614091 STAGE 7.3 - EXPLORATION BEFORE INTEGRATION mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203622134 "What human beings need most is inner freedom, (freedom from thoughts and emotions), which leads to greater altruism and compassion, which is what the world needs. But before we can cultivate altruism and compassion, first we must cultivate ATTENTION"

Mattieu Ricard - Scientist and buddhist monk]]> 2017-11-05 13:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203622134 ‘Cultural identities are not given, but formed, maintained and changed in society in order to fit emergent needs’. (p.91) gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203631244 Sarangi, S. (2009). ‘Culture’. In G. Senft, J. Ostamn and J. Verschueren (eds.). Culture and language use. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 81-104.]]> 2017-11-05 14:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203631244 Is it necessary to learn about your own culture and identify culture-specific behaviours and beliefs before learning about another culture? gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203632551 'Engaging with a different language sensitizes them to the significance of their own first language and of language in general.' (Kramsch, cited in Dewaele, 2011:29) 
... and the significance of culture, too.

  • 60 % of my students agreed that it is important. 
  • Split 50 - 50  on whether students should be in mixed or monolingual groups.
]]> 2017-11-05 14:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203632551 'High levels of LX socialisation allow the user to communicate emotions in the LX competently and confidently, but it takes years before the positive language characteristics and emotional strength of swearwords in the LX equal those of the L1.' (p.34) gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203636860 Dewaele, J.M. (2011). ‘Emotional and Psychological Aspects of Foreign Language Learning and Use’. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 22.1: 23-42


]]> 2017-11-05 15:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203636860 Rintell (1984) found that some emotions were harder to identify by both native English speakers and also ESL students. Which do you think they are? gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203639875 2017-11-05 15:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203639875 From the Classroom gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203640334 2017-11-05 15:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203640334 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203641295 2017-11-05 15:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203641295 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203641451 2017-11-05 15:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203641451 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203813005 2017-11-06 11:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203813005 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203836238 2017-11-06 12:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203836238 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203841673 2017-11-06 12:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203841673 gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203933960 2017-11-06 15:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/203933960 Bach, English Suite 1 in A, BWV806, Sarabande gadjodilo https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204037358 Piano:Glenn Gould]]> 2017-11-06 18:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204037358 mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204125665 2017-11-06 21:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204125665 STAGE 7: ATTENTION TO BREATH MEDITATION mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204125960 2017-11-06 21:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204125960 STAGE 7 - JUST BREATHE mindfulness7cordoba https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204238688 A beautiful video illustrating how children use mindfulness and breathing techniques to manage their emotions.]]> 2017-11-07 08:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gadjodilo/finding_a_voice_Cordoba_Nov2017/wish/204238688