PAC7 at JALT2008 Proceedings Article Data

Article title, keywords, abstract, and writer profiles

Title:
Benefits of Outdoor Education for second/foreign language learning

Keywords:
outdoor learning

Abstract:
This paper examines the benefits that an outdoor education experience provides to learners. Based on previous studies, seven distinct benefits that participants receive from being involved in an outdoor education program are discussed. The seven benefits elucidated are: increased motivation and a state of flow, psychosocial development, transference of improvements experienced to everyday life, contextualization of educational material, improved physical health, consciousness-raising state, and implementation of multiple intelligences. The paper closes with an extrapolation of how these benefits could transfer to second/foreign language learning situations.

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