教师教学发展中心讲座：The importance of understanding culture for better intercultural relationships
讲座题目：Importance of Understanding Culture in Intercultural relationship教师教学发展中心讲座：Why Do We Need a New Approach to Foreign Language Teaching?
讲座题目：Why Do We Need a New Approach to Foreign Language Teaching?
主 讲 人：Prof. Francois Victor Tochon，University of Wisconsin-Madison
讲座时间：2015年4月7日下午2:30
讲座地点：重庆大学教师教学发展中心（A区）
主办单位：重庆大学教师教学发展中心，咨询电话：65103026
主讲人简介:
Francois Victor Tochon（涂尚）是美国威斯康辛州大学麦迪孙总校的课程与教学系教授，博士生导师，国际LIONS俱乐部资助的MOOCs(慕课)组织Deep University理事会主席。Tochon教授拥有4个博士学位头衔，在加拿大获得应用语言学博士学位和教育学心理学博士学位，同时拥有阿根廷里约热内卢国家大学和秘鲁利马首都大学的荣誉博士学位。
Tochon教授本科阶段专修“法语文学与符号学专业和语言学专业”，辅修“心理学专业”。兼修音乐、古典文学与科学。他会5国语言，精通法语和英语，同时还能用德语、西班牙语、土耳其语交流。至今指导教育学和语言学博士生49人，其中26人已获博士学位。从教30年，著述甚丰，出版著作39部，发表论文227篇，发表研究报告28个，在全球作学术交流和讲座340多场。尤其在“国际语言教育政策；教育符号学，视频制作”等方面颇有研究。
内容简介：
Foreign Language Education is handicapped by paradoxes that prevent it from furthering its mission. Methods are often taught without epistemology, students tend to communicate without contents. Teaching of cultures is often sanitized and stereotyped. Teacher educators professionalize student teachers who rarely understand their own cultural identity, potential foreignness and otherness. The way to deal with these contradictions is to articulate new priorities and reconceptualize the field as the inescapable branch of learning for world peace and social justice. Deep content-based learning places the emphasis on the quality of professional development within the accomplishment of projects. Professor Tochon offers a new perspective on educative practice, which targets transdisciplinary aims. The deep learning process gives rise to a variety of outcomes that cannot always be fully anticipated. Therefore, deep evaluation is open and focuses on creative work. Deep content-based learning places the emphasis on the quality of the acquisition process and proficiency development within the accomplishment of projects.
