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10:10

Penny - In Lindy Norris' session, "Unpacking Intercultural Language Learning"

10:11

Penny - Lindy was at the last conference in Sydney, 29yrs ago!

10:12

Penny - She met her husband at that conference! :)

10:13

Penny - How are teachers dealing with all this stuff? Lindy's impression is that teachers don't have enough to "hang on to" when they're looking at ILL.

Going to give us some ideas when looking at these ideas, and then use them when scaffolding programming in classrooms.

10:13

Penny - Going to look at this from 3 perspectives: the "inter" bit and the "language bit" and the "culture" bit.

10:14

Penny - The "inter" bit
Cultural mediation and Third place
So instead of "native like" our goals for our learners are "some degree of fluency", "reasonable knowledge" and the "ability to behave in roughly appropriate ways."

10:15

Penny - It's important for us to think about what this actually means given the context we're in. Make sure our kids, school communities and school principals understand this

10:16

Penny - James Gee's work
Lindy likes the way he talks about discourse/Discourse.
A focus on "Big D Discourses" (Language + other stuff)

10:18

Penny - James Gee (1999)
Making visible and recognisible who we are and what we are doing always involves a great deal more than "just language". It involves acting-interacting-thinking-valuing-talking (sometimes writing-reading) in the "appropriate way" with the "appropriate" props at the "appropriate times" in the "appropriate" places.

discourse = language-in-use or stretches of language (like conversations or stories). "Big D Discourses are always language plus "other stuff"

10:19

Penny - A couple of examples of big D discourses:

Chapter 1 of "Infidel" -> example

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