graduate studies // Cognition & computers  - 2002 by Mauricio Miraglia
A Constructivist Learning Environment Model for the Learning of English as a Foreign Language.
I. Overview
In my previous paper I focused on the teaching of reading for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and how the implementation of diverse knowledge representations could enhance the learning process of reading skills in learners of English as a foreign language. I would like to expand on the context of language learning and present through this paper a first approach to a constructivist design model in the domain of EFL (English as a foreign language). This paper examines seven guidelines on how to build a constructivist learning environment giving theoretical evidence from the bibliography required for Cognition and Computers followed up by examples for application of these guidelines. The paper also suggests a method of assessment for learners as well as an evaluation of the learning environment in terms of how successfully users and the learning environment interact with one another and how this model would facilitate the learning process.