Anglophone Study Trips with Multimedia Projects

Author: prof. PaedDr. Silvia Pokrivčáková, PhD. Reviewers: prof. PaedDr. Ivana Cimermanová, PhD.   doc. Mgr. Eva Reid, PhD. Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Trnava Year: 2024    ISBN 978­‑80­‑568­‑0670­‑8 https://doi.​org/​10.​31262/​978­‑80­‑568­‑0670­‑8/​2024  Pokrivčáková, Silvia: Anglophone Study Trips with Multimedia Projects. Trnava : Pedagogická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, 2024. 64 s. [3,38 AH]. ISBN 978­‑80­‑568­‑0670­‑8. 1,59 MB (1,52 MiB), 17. 10. 2024

Abstract

The present textbook deals with the issue of foreign study trips. It aims to introduce the research­‑based framework of study trips as a specific educational form of foreign language education to students of teacher­‑training and philology study programmes. Within higher education, systemic research on study trips is relatively new. It is related to the existing situation in its theoretical background, which is characterised by a fragmentation of information and a lack of concrete teaching resources. While learning about the concept of study trips and their organization, students depended almost exclusively on textbooks from general pedagogy and didactics, which do not specifically address the issue of foreign language and foreign culture study trips. The present publication’s ambition is to remedy this deficit partially. In the first chapter, the concept of a (foreign) study trip as a specific organizational form of higher education is defined, and its basic theoretical framework, complemented by a brief overview of recent research in the field, is presented. The second chapter provides information about the specific conditions of foreign study trips and presents nine detailed organizational guidelines for study trips to Anglophone countries or countries with strong Anglophone cultural links. For the study trip to meet its educational objectives, students should produce an output, i.e. a product, in which they present their newly acquired experiences, knowledge and skills. This output can take many forms – an essay, a short­‑written report, a portfolio of assignments, a term paper, an oral presentation, etc. Currently, the assigned final output of the Anglophone study trips at the author’s workplace is a student video movie (as a multimedia student project). Therefore, the third chapter introduces the guidelines for preparing and presenting a video movie from a study trip. The last, fourth, chapter discusses the objectives and various methods of study trip assessment.

Keywords

study trip, anglophone study trip, culturally enriching study trip, multimedia project, student­‑made video.