Costantino, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-8561 and Blazheva, Lora (2021) Exploring language learning as a creative reflexive practice for a better quality of classroom life. In: Language Acts and Worldmaking Conference: "Languages Future", 15th - 16th & 21st - 23rd April, 2021, King's College London.

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Abstract

Reflective writing is one piece of evidence that language students must submit as part of their portfolio in the Higher Education language department, where we teach and learn. This activity counts toward our students’ formative assessment. The literature has long evidenced the benefits of reflectivity in learning as it engenders metacognitive enhancement of learning and self-efficacy.
However, this reflective exercise has often failed to result in a deep engagement with learning. Hence, I, the language tutor co-presenter, have looked at pedagogical opportunities to break away from routinised formative assessment and learning by implementing participatory practitioner-research (Exploratory Practice). Through this approach, both learners and educators consider aspects of their practice to mutually understand their learning development and enhance the quality of life of their classroom. Rather than being a single activity to be carried out at the end of a formative journey, reflectivity becomes a continuous process of enquiry enacted by sustainably harnessing the multimodal affordances of conventional classroom activities.
In this presentation, we, an Italian language tutor and a language undergraduate student introduce the pedagogical underpinnings of approaching language learning as an enquiry and illustrate an instance of how a mutual and dialogical search for understanding has been enacted through creatively engaging with the classroom materials.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	student-teacher collaboration, creativity, practitioner enquiry, exploratory practice language affordances, reflectivity, sustainability and language learning
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Last Modified:	31 Jul 2025 14:48
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/50888

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