Learning Agility and Language Learning | ||||
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| Article 8, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2023, Page 3-33 PDF (3.26 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/smnar.1999.300893 | ||||
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Manal Abdelaziz 
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| Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education, Ain Shams University, Egypt | ||||
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| Learning agility is a set of complex skills that enable the learner to learn something new in one place and then apply what he has learned elsewhere, in a wholly different situation. Agile learners have the mindset that allows them to continually develop their understanding, to grow, and use new strategies that they have learned along the way, in order to ready themselves to successfully navigate any future problems. Learning agility can be taught and learned at any stage in life. Agility also means making sure in the class, both the teaching and learning aspects, are constantly on track from day one. The Agile Teaching/Learning Methodology (ATLM) achieves this type of agility by maintaining a high degree of communication, interaction and feedback between the student and teacher. There have been hundreds of studies into the benefits of using learning agility on knowing a new language, unanimously agreeing that it improves cerebral functionality due to the challenge of recognizing, deciphering and communicating in a different language system – something that transfers into many other areas of learner's life. By being able to juggle between two more language systems, your ability to juggle multiple priorities and generally multitask improves. Similarly, learning a new language involves memorizing rules and vocabulary, strengthening your mental “muscle”, so much so that linguists retain other types of information better. Multilingual people might be more perceptive, due to being better at observing their surroundings, focusing on relevant information and editing out the irrelevant. Linguists can strip away the subtle implications in their native vocabulary which can subconsciously bias judgment by thinking it over more logically in their second language. Finally, on a basic level, it is a big boost to the self-confidence to have that feeling of personal success in achieving the ability to communicate in another language. The ability to speak a second language opens up a world of possibilities for people at all stages and all levels of their careers. | ||||
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| Keywords: learning agility; agile learner; language learning | ||||
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نبدة عن المؤلف
أ.د. منال محمد عبد العزيز أستاذ المناهج وطرق التدريس بكلية البنات جامعة عين شمس. التخصص الدقيق: طرق تدريس اللغة الانجليزية. شاركت فى العديد من الندوات والمؤتمرات المحلية والإقليمية والدولية. عضو ومحكم باللجان الاستشارية فى العديد من المجلات العربية والدولية. أشرفت وحكمت العديد من رسائل الماجستير والدكتوراه وبحوث الترقية بجمهورية مصر العربية و بالمملكة العربية السعودية. وشاركت فى تطوير المقررات والخطط الاستراتيجية واللوائح الجامعية بجمهورية مصر العربية و بالمملكة العربية السعودية. | ||||
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