An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online
In this paper, we first introduce three ecological principles for designing Chinese language online teaching and learning activities drawing from ecological psychology. The first principle – perception and action cycles in an ecosystem, advocates for situating online learning in a physical environme...
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2023-06-01
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| description | In this paper, we first introduce three ecological principles for designing Chinese language online teaching and learning activities drawing from ecological psychology. The first principle – perception and action cycles in an ecosystem, advocates for situating online learning in a physical environment and creates activities with potentials to engage perception-action cycles. With the second principle – intention and attention merge in an ecosystem, we advocate for designing complex, flexible and dynamic activities and providing scaffolding for attunement. The third – meaning-making and values-realizing coincide in an ecosystem, calls for designing activities that allow for care-taking of oneself, each other, and the environment and cultivate curiosity and mindfulness for values-realizing and individual meaning-making. To highlight ways to tap into learners’ interest and connect to people and places, we then share two example activities with both low-technology and high-technology options. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9c0332b0baff41098857b8d95e0d6db22025-01-20T11:08:49ZengDe GruyterJournal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning2748-34792023-06-013118820710.1515/jccall-2023-0012An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese onlinePaul Jing0Nuesser Michaela1Zheng Dongping2Agnes Scott College, Decatur, USAUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USAUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, USAIn this paper, we first introduce three ecological principles for designing Chinese language online teaching and learning activities drawing from ecological psychology. The first principle – perception and action cycles in an ecosystem, advocates for situating online learning in a physical environment and creates activities with potentials to engage perception-action cycles. With the second principle – intention and attention merge in an ecosystem, we advocate for designing complex, flexible and dynamic activities and providing scaffolding for attunement. The third – meaning-making and values-realizing coincide in an ecosystem, calls for designing activities that allow for care-taking of oneself, each other, and the environment and cultivate curiosity and mindfulness for values-realizing and individual meaning-making. To highlight ways to tap into learners’ interest and connect to people and places, we then share two example activities with both low-technology and high-technology options.https://doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2023-0012chinese as a foreign language (cfl)ecological psychologyonline teaching |
| spellingShingle | Paul Jing Nuesser Michaela Zheng Dongping An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning chinese as a foreign language (cfl) ecological psychology online teaching |
| title | An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online |
| title_full | An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online |
| title_fullStr | An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online |
| title_full_unstemmed | An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online |
| title_short | An ecological psychology perspective in teaching Chinese online |
| title_sort | ecological psychology perspective in teaching chinese online |
| topic | chinese as a foreign language (cfl) ecological psychology online teaching |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2023-0012 |
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