3. Our collaborative project✍🏻

1. AIMS 🚀

Our collaborative project is about the linguist Dell Hathaway Hymes and our main aim is to present a general overview of Hymes’ principles and methodologies.

According to this, this project pretends to deal with some of the linguist’s personal issues in order to understand how these could interfere on his professional development as a linguist.

After that, our collaborative presentation shows the linguistic current in which Hymes is located so as to comprehend his theory which will be later developed.

Therefore, we discuss the main influences on our linguist’s work by focusing our attention on Chomsky’s linguistic competence since Hymes’ theory is a reaction against him.

The main purpose for doing this is to present Hymes’ theory in a comprehensible way as this is the most important part of our project.

After presenting Hymes’ communicative competence 💬 and the Speaking model🗣, we deal with the influences that Hymes’ had for developing later works to establish links among different linguists and researchers.

To sum up, this project is intended for understanding Hymes’ linguistic model trough critical thinking in order to show connections among different linguists before and after Dell Hymes.

2. The project was carried out in a collaborative way 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧: 

In the first place we held a meeting☝🏻in which we divided the presentation into different parts to be prepared by each one of us, as well as including ideas on its performance (in this case, the use of cardboards 📝 to explain Hymes’s SPEAKING model). After this, a research 🔍was conducted on Hymes’s context, influence received, theory and importance of his work as reflected on that of posterior authors. Moreover, each component of the group had to created a slide for the common PowerPoint presentation, with a clear organization and the necessary information to be displayed in front of the class. These slides were shared through a common file in Google Drive so as to be able to comment on them, correcting any possible mistakes and suggesting changes if needed. Finally, the Powerpoint was set together and sent to the teacher, and individually we prepared our part of speech 🗣in the presentation that we performed in class.

3. Write about the importance of collaborative learning/teaching 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧

• The term "collaborative learning" refers to an instruction method in which students at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal🏆. The students are responsible for one another's learning as well as their own. Thus, the success of one student helps other students to be successful. Besides, according to Johnson and Johnson “there is persuasive evidence that cooperative teams achieve at higher levels of thought and retain information longer than students who work quietly as individuals”. In this way, it engages the students, makes them responsible for their own learning and they become critical thinkers🤔. Another positive aspect of this method is that it creates a relaxed atmosphere 😌in the classroom, since students are not competitors anymore but collaborative co-workers who in seek of the whole group’s success.🎉
• The term "collaborative teaching" on the other hand refers to the involvement of various educators working together in order to instruct groups of students. This collaboration usually takes place among professionals from different disciplines, such as core subjects, special needs education, guidance programs and so on. These educators work together to plan lessons, lecture and teach, do evaluations and manage the class✏. All teachers implied co-operate together, having the same weight in the class, so as to they are equals in the classroom. The main advantage of this method is that students get a more individual and personal attention, and they are able to discuss and compare different perspectives and ideas. An important point to be taken into account is that teachers should be flexible and open-minded 🙌🏻since they will need the other teacher's approval and opinions to work better together.

References:

• Gokhale, A. Anuradha (1995). ‘Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking’, Journal of Technology Education, vol.7, no. 1, viewed 13 December 2016, <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html?ref=Sawos.Org>.
• Johnson , R. T., & Johnson, D. W. (1986). Action research: Cooperative learning in the science classroom. Science and Children , 24, 31-32.
• Totten , S., Sills, T., Digby, A., & Russ, P. (1991). Cooperative learning: A guide to research . New York: Garland.
• Topeducationdegrees.org. (2016). What is Collaborative Teaching?. [online] Available at: http://www.topeducationdegrees.org/faq/what-is-collaborative-teaching/ [Accessed 13 Dec. 2016]
• Understood.org. (2016). Collaborative Team Teaching: What You Need to Know. [online] Available at: https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/educational-strategies/collaborative-team-teaching-what-you-need-to-know [Accessed 13 Dec. 2016].

 4. Say something about the linguist you presented and another one that may drew your attention.  👬

Hymes was the first linguist who developed the concept of communicative competence. 🔝

In other words, he highlighted the importance of the context when studying a language. When we learn a language, we need to take into account not only the formal code, but also its context. This is why he was one of the founders of sociolinguistics, and precisely for this reason he was a significant figure within the field of linguistics. However, Piaget was also an important figure in the field of psychology since he was the first who developed a theory about cognitive development, which can be approached from a linguistic point of view. He considered that human beings go through four stages of cognitive development.