CULTURALBASED LEARNING OBJECTS In A BLENDED ENVIRONMENT For GREEK And GREEKCYPRIOT STUDENTS In U.K.

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CULTURAL-BASED LEARNING OBJECTS In A BLENDED
ENVIRONMENT For GREEK And GREEK/CYPRIOT STUDENTS
In U.K.

• Lambropoulos, Niki
• nikilambropoulos_at_linuxmail.org
• Christopoulou Martha
• marchri13_at_yahoo.co.uk
• Greek Ministry Of Education Religious Affairs

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Overview

• Greek Language Second/Foreign
• Initial Problems in Teaching Learning Greek in
  the UK
• Cultural-based Blended Learning
• Learning Objects (LOs)
• Advantages of Cultural-based LOs
• CLO example the Garland of May
• Summary
• Future Perspectives

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GREEK LANGUAGE SECOND/ FOREIGN

• Minority Language Second or Foreign?
• Second -lt-lt-lt-lt-------------- Foreign
• Gray Zone
• Efforts to keep it second

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INITIAL PROBLEMS IN TEACHING LEARNING GREEK IN
UK

• Levels of language acquisition
• Dominance of English language
• English language social mobility
• Contradiction between the Cypriot dialect
  Modern Greek
• Teaching Learning environment (operation of
  GLC, teachers training, educational policy)
• Norm-based learning

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CULTURAL-BASED BLENDED LEARNING

• Relationship between culture language
• Incorporating culture into second/foreign
  language learning
• Information about
• native speakers society, history, etc
• their attitudes, values, etc
• artistic literary accomplishments
• Blended learning
• On/Off classroom
• Synchronous/Asynchronous learning

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LEARNING OBJECTS (LOs)

• Principles cohesion, minimised decoupling,
  interdisciplinarity
• Construction
• Preliminary research about problems common
  mistakes
• Compatibility with LOs international standards
• Indexation (row data within the LO, LO taxonomy
  LOs, clusters, sets, units)
• Packaging XML LOMetadata Editors
• Delivery (Internet, Mobile devices, CD-Roms)

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ADVANTAGES OF CULTURAL-BASED LOs (CLOs)

• Grammatical phenomena accompanied with artefacts,
  music, films, etc
• Enrichment of teaching by information about the
  target culture
• Students motivation for further research about
  the target culture
• Discussions expansion about cultural, historical
  linguistic factors

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CLO EXAMPLE
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CLO EXAMPLE
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SUMMARY

• A variety of solutions can be provided by Blended
  Cultural-based learning
• Increase students interest motivation
• Provision of information about the target culture
  language
• CLOs environment facilitates
• Self-organised leraning
• Sociocultural learning
• For CLOs construction
• Inquiry about students needs/difficulties
• Collaboration between people of different
  professions (researchers, teachers, curriculum
  developers, artists, multimedia developers,ICT
  engineers)

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FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

• Self-organized Collaborative learning
• Use both eMaterial and Discussion forums
• Use CLOs to enhance minorities identity
• eLearning Multicultural Projects
• Cross-curriculum activities

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THANK YOU..

• FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
• Niki Lambropoulos
• http//nikilambropoulos.org
• nikilambropoulos_at_linuxmail.org
• Martha Christopoulou
• marchri13_at_yahoo.co.uk