2nd FORTHEM Annual Conference - Connecting Worlds of Science and Society"

Multilingual Learning Environments: how academics and students have co-created a university course

31 Jan 2025, 14:00

30m

ONLINE

Oral presentation Enhancing multilingualism and learning in schools and universities Enhancing multilingualism and learning in schools and universities

Speaker

Dr Tamás Péter Szabó (University of Jyväskylä)

Description

This contribution shares insights of the development, teaching and assessment of the Multilingual Learning Environments course co-created in the FORTHEM Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab. The course idea emerged in 2020 and after a FORTHEM Digital Academy funded development period, the first iteration took place in Autumn 2022. Due to co-creation among academics and students and a peer review process involving both groups, the course content is in line with students’ interests and learning goals as well as contemporary research trends and education policies that foster multilingual education at all levels of education. Students also continuously develop new study units and in this way the course is evolving to meet the changing needs of students.
So far more than 100 students completed the course in five iterations. 64 of them agreed to use their submissions via the FORTHEM Digital Academy platform. The data includes responses to pre- and post-tasks of study units, reading circle notes, literature reviews, project work reports, new study units and self-reflective learning diaries.
This presentation applies discourse analysis on the self-reflective learning diaries to reveal ways in which students express their learning experience and shape recommendations on further development of the course.