Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


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5.3.1.3.1. Results from the Reflective Journals. This worksheet was also piloted in the university context; therefore, the description of the aims and main steps of the lesson can be found in Section 4.3.1.3. In the secondary school context, three teachers chose this sequence to try out with their students (Alma, Johanna, and Ubul) and they did the sequence with 39 students, overall. All three teachers wrote entries in their reflective journals about the lessons when they used the worksheet, and as the result of the content analysis, some recurring themes were found. All three of them wrote about their reason behind choosing this worksheet to use with their groups, however, their reasons differed: Alma asked her students to choose the tasks they wanted to do from the 10 worksheets offered, Ubul found this worksheet interesting, and finally, Johanna gave the choice to her trainee, who was doing her short teaching practice under her wings, and he chose based on the fact that he liked the song and felt that the topic was important. All three participants noted that the song really engaged the students, even if in two groups (Alma’s and Johanna’s), some students already knew the song. They found the video clip gripping; and even though Alma warmed the students that the clip may be too harsh, they did not seem to mind it. In connection with the multiple-choice questions checking students’ understanding of the lyrics, Johanna’s group remarked that subtitles would have helped, but Ubul’s group did it with ease. Ubul commented that the vocabulary exercise was easy for his students, and Johanna’s trainee perceived it similarly but added that a bit more guidance would have been needed for the group. Ubul and Johanna’s trainee executed the discussion exercise quite differently, in the latter case, they had a mingling activity, in which they were asked to discuss two questions from the list, but in Ubul’s group, they discussed all the questions in pairs. He observed that “this topic needs a certain level of maturity” (J/GF-U-1), and he was positively surprised how much of that his students exhibited while discussing the questions. He was happy to hear that his students came up with advantageous ideas to the questions How could people fight against poverty? and What could you, as an individual, do to help? Both Johanna’s trainee and Ubul commented on the Kahoot! quiz, which aimed at testing the students’ knowledge about poverty-related issues. Johanna’s trainee felt that he should not have left this activity to the end of the class, as it would have energised the students properly and got them into the mood for the topic, even though he admitted that it was a truly enjoyable activity for the students anyway. According to Ubul, the quiz “helped to deepen the issue, but the facts were too difficult” (J/GF-U-1), so the students did not have the feeling of success after guessing the answers. Nevertheless, they were truly surprised by some numbers, and hopefully, the activity made them think. Reflecting on the whole sequence, both Alma and Ubul stated that they were happy to see their students’ engagement, and Ubul added that it is necessary to deal with such a topic in preparation for the B2 or C1 language exams and “introducing it with a song makes it acceptable and tolerable” (J/GF-U-1).

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

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