Introduction


Assignment 1

 

TESOL  professionals must continually reflect on their work and how it is shaped by their beliefs about practice and learning. This assessment item draws together the content from Modules 1 and 2 to connect the concepts of sociocultural theory, discourse, identity, and reflection. It also focuses on the subject objectives of explaining discourse from a sociocultural theory perspective and reflecting on your own TESOL identity.

For this task, you are required to construct a multimodal profile pertaining to your TESOL professional identity. Your profile should comprise: 

  • your life and work experiences;

  • your language contact within and across communities;
     
  • your understanding of language learning, teaching, and managing principles, theories, and methods;
     
  • your vision for language learning.

You can present your profile in any accessible space or medium, but the final product must be multimodal, that is, meaning should be communicated using a combination of at least two modes (written language, images, video, audio, animation etc). 


In this assignment I will be creating a TESOL professional identity. To create my TESOL professional identity. I will be including my life and work experiences and my language contact within and across communities. A history and review of language learning theories, methods and managing principles will be discussed. Discourse from a sociocultural theory perspective will be ananlysed. Finally, my vision for language learning will unfold.

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