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The Last Ship is a collaboration between ESL students and a teacher based on a decision that the content of their English learning should be built around the need to develop self-directed learning, a winning mentality, leadership, character, integrity while embracing creativity and 21st Century technology in our learning.
The blog serves as a communal reflections board on discussions had in class even if it now only reflects 10-20% of our discussions. It is hoped that students acquire a habit that their learning correlates directly to their level of engagement and commitment and that collaboration and communication enhances learning. These are among the habits of the 21st Century Learner.
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If it increases the percentage of time a learner will put in effort to read / come across English words as well as the percentage of time they devote to reflect on learning it would have a direct impact on indirect language acquisition. It also encourages learners to think about how participation and personal motivation/responsibility is directly proportional to how much they’re learning.
The language/ideas used in this blog reflect varying levels of comprehensibility from learner’s own input to input of more advanced peers and comments (comprehensible input i + 1). A high trust, high discipline, face to face incubated environment is used as a basis to further extend language acquisition in a relaxed setting online(moderated blog).
It is hoped that in this way learning does not “cool off” between the weekly 2 hour classes as students have something to think about to keep the learning momentum going.
(Input Hypothesis, Krashen 1984)