Survive Chinese New

Year Project 2: Cognitivism

Robert Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction

Background

• Student’s background: 1. A college student in Chinese flagship at San Francisco State University 2.Intermediate level in Mandarin

• Instruction:1.One hour per day2.Materials-Webquest

Objective

• Attempt to teach learners to have a higher order thinking skills in cross culture communication in Chinese culture via webquest.

• Use Robert Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction and condition of learning.

Robert Gagne’s 9 Events (1985)

Cognitive Process(internal executive control

process)Instructional Event

reception gaining attentionexpectancy informing learners of the

objectiveRetrieval (prior

knowledge)stimulating recall of prior learning

selective perception presenting the stimulussemantic encoding providing learning

guidanceresponding eliciting performancereinforcement providing feedbackretrieval assessing performancegeneralization enhancing retention and

transfer

WebQuestIntroduction • Attract learners

attention

Task • Describe a task of this lesson

Process • Show steps to complete the task

Resources • Preselected electronic resources

Evaluation • A rubric

Conclusion • Reflection/discussion/extension

Why utilize WebQuest?Instructional Event WebQuest

gaining attention introduction informing learners of the

objective introduction stimulating recall of prior

learning introductionpresenting the stimulus task

providing learning guidance resource/processeliciting performance processproviding feedback evaluation

assessing performance evaluation enhancing retention and

transfer conclusion

Main Theories

•The study of learning behaviors which mainly focus on mental processing

Cognitivism

•Real practice of instructional design based on cognitivism (Gagne, 1985)

Robert Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction

•Enhances learning by retrieval-specific mechanisms (Butler, 2010; Karpicke, Janell, 2011)

Retrieval Practice

The Goal

• To be familiarize with some greetings that native speakers use during Chinese New Year.

• To learn Chinese New Year traditions.• To have a culture awareness which

enables learners to apply in the future. • To compare festivals and celebration in

Chinese culture and learners’ own cultures.

Reference

• Gagne, R. M., (1985) The Conditions of Learning and Theory of Instruction. New York: CBS College Publishing.

• Gagné, R. M., Briggs, L. J., & Wager, W. W. (1992). Principles of instructional design (4th ed.). Forth Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

• Good, T. L., Brophy, J.E (1990). Educational Psychology: A realistic approach. (4th ed.) White Plains, NY:Longman

• Mergel Brenda (1998), Instructional Design and Learning Theory, University of Saskatchewan, Term Paper HTML, retrieved 14:46, 14 August 2007 (MEST)