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The Effects of Project-based Learning on Culinary English and Food Culture (95530)
Session Chair: Ronnie Paskin
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Monday, 14 July 2025 10:15
Session: Session 2
Room: Live-Stream Room 4
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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This study aims to explore the effects of integrating project-based instruction into a culinary English course on developing students’ competence in both English and food culture. Fifty-three culinary majors enrolled in the advanced culinary English course participated in this study. Through the teacher’s instruction, group discussions, and participation in class activities, the participants cooperated as groups to collect information regarding local produce, including its place of growth, characteristics, related culture, and recipes, and gradually completed the local food culture project. In addition, they read instructional materials adapted from government websites to learn how to introduce cultural information about agricultural produce in English. The instruments used in this study to measure the pedagogical effects included a pre-test and a post-test paragraph-based introduction to related culture of local produce, pre-instruction and post-instruction questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews. The results revealed improvements in terms of abilities to write introductory paragraphs to agricultural produce, learning motivation, cooperation, learning of food culture and culinary English, supporting that local food culture projects integrated into a culinary English course can be effective for raising students’ learning motivation and efficiency for culinary English and food culture. It is expected that the present study can shed light on English for specific purposes with practical pedagogical implications.
Authors:
Chi-yin Hong, Kun Shan Univsersity, Taiwan
About the Presenter(s)
Chi-yin Hong is an associate professor of Department of Food and Beverage Management and Culinary Arts at Kun Shan University in Taiwan.
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