ASPECTS OF TACIT LANGUAGE INTERACTIONS UNDERPINNING COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Suzana EJUPI, Lindita SKENDERI
Abstract
Teaching and learning a foreign language is always seen as a complex task, opening the doors to a multidimensional learning process to undertake. Teachers and learners are keen to decode this process’s complexity from a Cognitive Constructivist Perspective (CCP), seeing this approach as a way to generate and enhance learning. This paper will focus on some key Cognitive Constructivist issues regarding the impact ‘Tacit Language’ has on speaking comprehension improvement in English. As such, it aims to unveil some interactions by focusing on the involvement of a wider range of Tacit Language input from ST to TT. The ‘wording transfer’ will be analyzed through Cognitive Constructivist Interactions (CCI), focusing on the ‘operationality of word systematization’ within “the newly produced text version.” In this regard, Interaction Intensity (II) will be measured between both perspectives with UG students at the English Department. This will be the ultimate hypothesis answer to the problem. A random sampling output will be exposed to a triangulation of research methods based upon audio-visual observation, surveys, and questionnaires as data-gathering instruments. Several parameters will be measured, aiming to give a clearer picture of Tacit Language Knowledge Transfer, focusing on the intensity of the Cognitive Constructivism role throughout the process. The key action to be monitored is ‘Intensity of Cognitive Constructivism Operability’ during the word transfer from ST to TT. This perspective will define explicit hints in terms of using different skills during the transfer of tacit language terms, seen as an impact on strengthening speaking skills. Finally, the project will design an efficient learning approach based upon an efficient operability generated by tacit language input and Cognitive Constructivist Systematization (CCS) of new terms and words in speaking tasks.
Pages: 140 - 150