LEARNING IN CONTEXT AND RESPONDING TO LEARNERS’ NEEDS

• Main Author: Sanda-Marina BĂDULESCU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Știință din România 2013-05-01
• Series: Annals: Series on engineering sciences (Academy of Romanian Scientists)
• Subjects: Learning in context; learners’ needs; field of work; internal variation; problematic contexts
• Online Access: http://aos.ro/wp-content/anale/TVol5Nr1Art.2.pdf

Learning in context and responding to learners’ needs is more effective than learning that is not clearly tied to the purposes it intends to serve. In the field of work and enterprises, there are practical basic issues that have to be taken into account: internal variation of the world of work, and frequency of the problematic situations and contexts. At the Education level it means to create an incentive formal frame, a dynamic pace, and a variety of methods that make students/trainees to be really involved in, and to actively participate to the training process. A Teacher-trainer in foreign languages, for example, has to teach his students to have permanent initiative, to do something new or in a new way, to answer our challenging society. A trainer has to train his trainees for having a critical thinking, for using their creativity in solving all sorts of problems of applied sciences or applied linguistics in and for the new contexts of our pluralist society.