Up Close and Personal: Enhancing Learning through Personalization in the Second Language (L2) Classroom

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Recent brain research suggests that our ability to learn is deeply rooted in relationships. Both the teacher-learner relationship and the emotional environment of learning affect learner performance. Activities within Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) typically focus on relationship building and personalized sharing among learners, with the instructor playing a peripheral role as observer or facilitator. Yet, the teacher-learner relationship can surely benefit from classroom-appropriate, personalized sharing by the instructor as an active participant, as well.

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Recent brain research suggests that our ability to learn is deeply rooted in relationships. Both the teacher-learner relationship and the emotional environment of learning affect learner performance. Activities within Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) typically focus on relationship building and personalized sharing among learners, with the instructor playing a peripheral role as observer or facilitator. Yet, the teacher-learner relationship can surely benefit from classroom-appropriate, personalized sharing by the instructor as an active participant, as well.

This session presents activities that integrate instructor-personalized content. It also explores techniques for adapting existing activities for increased instructor personalization as well as how the construct of personalization can be applied to other aspects of L2 learning.

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Holly J. Nibert, Ohio State University

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