§ACADEMIC SKILLS IN ENGLISH §Summer School § § §SEMINARS Masaryk University Language Centre Monday 18th July to Friday 22nd July 2014 Brno What is a seminar? § § What is a seminar? §Interaction §Your pedagogical role § What is a seminar? §Interaction §Your pedagogical role: §. Provider §. Scaffolder §. Problematizer § What is a seminar? §Interaction §Your pedagogical role: §. Provider §. Scaffolder §. Problematizer §What makes it different from a lecture or a workshop? § § What is a seminar? §Interaction §Your pedagogical role: §. Provider – lecture/presentation §. Scaffolder – seminar discussion or debate §. Problematizer – Socratic seminar or workshop § Stakeholders – a role play §Students §Teachers §Faculty or department heads 7 Define footer - Name of the presentation / Your name / Unit, Office 8 The role and purpose of a seminar in an academic programme §Amplification/consolidation of a certain aspect of the degree programme §Students may have an experience of learning and constructing knowledge through the seminar form §Students become practised in using the discourses of their academic community §Interactions and conversations pedagogically effective for developing positions and gaining critical thinking skills §“Writing, Phaedrus, has this strange quality, and is §very like painting; for the creatures of painting stand §like living beings, but if one asks them a question, they §preserve a solemn silence. And so it is with written words” § (Phaedrus 274c-275b) §Importance of dialogue and speaking for the learning process and the development of knowledge. §The tradition of Socrates also emphasises that students should have the experience of learning. This distinguishes – in Socratic terms – knowledge from belief. § 9 Socratic tradition Thinking as speaking; the socio-cultural tradition § § § “Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them” (Vygotsky 1986, p.251). § § Vygotsky’s proposition that speaking is not an expression of thought but a completion of thinking. § Can you make a cake? § 11 What have we experienced so far? § 12 What have we experienced so far? §Ineffective opening question → narrowing the topic → pair-work discussion → plenary discussion §Role-play → brainstorming (creativity) → plenary feedback → class discussion §Pair-work cooperating (diagramming) → inferencing (metaphor) → plenary feedback → class discussion 13 What have we just done? § 14 Define footer - Name of the presentation / Your name / Unit, Office Other seminar styles? § 15 §Over to you! 16 Define footer - Name of the presentation / Your name / Unit, Office