Abstract:

This preliminary study reports on the pedagogical use of Moodle (online learning and instructional platform) and Zoom in transnational Teaching English as an Additional Language (TEAL) practices at a university in Japan, where a degree program requires the Japanese students to learn English and (to) conduct their own research projects in British Columbia, Canada over the first two years of their undergraduate studies. This Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) (Coyle, Hood, & Marsh, 2010; Thompson & McKinley, 2018) design has been embodied by seeking pedagogical rationalization and meaning-making on online education models (Baghdadi, 2011; Britt, 2015;Wilson, 2018) facilitated by the two common online technologies mentioned above. Anchored in the framework of Plurilingualism and Plurilingual competence (Coste, Moore & Zarate, 1997, 2009; Marshall & Moore, 2018), this study examined possible ways the students and instructors can create their own pedagogical values of particular online learning tools commonly available in the world. The plurilingual pedagogy is a whole-istic approach to learner’s personal repertoire of linguistic and cultural knowledge and skills as their funds of knowledge (Gonzalez et al, 1993) for learning in various fields, systems and ideologies of global and local communities. To embody this pedagogical lens to a practical level in the learners’ individually unique research projects, PASTeL (Plurilingualism, Art, Science, Technology, and Literacy) (Moore, 2018) is explored in CLIL frameworks. The collected data include pedagogical fieldnotes and reflective journaling. Findings suggest that metacognitive learning processes in social contact with learning objectives such as content knowledge and lived experiences in research and learning sites in a hybrid mode (in-person and online) can be fundamental pedagogical loci uniquely for this plurilingual TEAL (PluriTEAL) (Haseyama, 2021), informed by Trans-/Plurilanguaging practices (Haseyama, Moore & Kato, 2017).

Keywords:

TEAL, Zoom, Moodle, Plurilingualism.