VET Student Identity Construction with EFL and Google Apps
1. Erityisesti Sinulle
VET STUDENT IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
WITH EFL AND GOOGLE APPS FOR
EDUCATION
Pekka Pakkala
Keskuspuisto Vocational College
EFVET CONFERENCE 2016
VALENCIA SPAIN
2. PEKKA PAKKALA
(Master of Arts, qualified vocational special needs
teacher, doctoral researcher) teaches English as
foreign language in Keskuspuisto Vocational College,
Finland
4. Isolation of core subjects and EFL from vocational
studies?
Special needs contexts that accentuate the
requirement for cohesion and holistic approach?
Witness the 3 year arc; What factors are involved?
What happens? How are these happenings
constructed into a story?
Herein lies a narrative!
QUESTIONS FOR A DOCTORAL RESEARCH….
5. Identity is a product of narrative process (Hall 1999)
Learning is a product of this process (Ropo 2009)
A narrative process creates reasons and context for
rules and principles (Bruner 1986)
This contextualisation is essential to EFL; all learning
requires a context
Google GAFE Classroom provides a platform for
contextualisation
IDENTITY AND LEARNING
6. THE RESEARCH PROJECT EXAMINES
THE CONSTRUCTION OF VOCATIONAL STUDENTS´
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES…
7. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INTEGRATE EFL
AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS LEARNING…
8. … AND TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
9. … AND COMPREHENSION OF PROCESSES…
I USE THE STENCIL TO
APPLY THE DECORATIVE
PAINTING ON THE WALL.
THEN I SPRAY THE PAINT.
11. The aim is to create learning environments that advance
signification and identity construction on three levels:
1. Autobiographical or individual level (Who am I?)
2. Social level (What am I, where do I belong?)
3. Cultural level (What kind of world do I live in?
(Yrjänäinen & Ropo 2013)
THEORETICAL CONTEXT
