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Building Communicative and Cultural Competence

Building Communicative and Cultural Competence. By Alma Pettenger Glendale High School Springfield, Missouri apettenger@spsmail.org. HOW DO YOU DO IT? How do you teach culture? How do you interconnect culture and language?. WHAT WILL I LEARN IN THIS SESSION?. What is CBI?

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Building Communicative and Cultural Competence

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  1. Building Communicative and Cultural Competence By Alma Pettenger Glendale High School Springfield, Missouri apettenger@spsmail.org

  2. HOW DO YOU DO IT?How do you teach culture?How do you interconnect culture and language?

  3. WHAT WILL I LEARN IN THIS SESSION? • What is CBI? • Why and how it works? • Some practical ideas for projects that interconnect language and culture

  4. What is CBI? • Content Based Instruction is a method to teach significant and relevant content in the second language.

  5. Relevant Content • From a serious science topic such the formation of stars • To a fun topic such as pop stars

  6. Why does CBI work? CBI offers several advantages • It makes learning a language more motivating by using language to fulfill a real purpose: relevant content

  7. SAMPLE LESSON #1My Study Abroad Program Student Sample #1

  8. My Study Abroad Program • Step 1 (select a topic of interest) • Why this topic? • Knowledge of student

  9. Introduce Your Topic in the most creative way you can! For this particular project, I brought a formal student of mine as a guest speaker, to present to my students on her study abroad experience. BE CREATIVE!

  10. Clear Goals and Instructions • Students should be able to visualize the expectation • Provide an End- Product sample such as pictures, video, or an actual product Scrapbook Sample

  11. Interpersonal Communication

  12. Assign a Research Topic • For this project, I allowed my students to pick one of five countries that have popular exchange programs in local universities and colleges: • Argentina • Costa Rica • Ecuador • Peru • Spain

  13. Collaboration • Once students have picked their country, I allowed them to group with other students who had also picked the same country. • Collaboration is a 21st century skills that we must promote in our language classes

  14. THE PRESENTATION • For this, I used an interpersonal mode of communication • For this particular projects, students shared their projects with one partner at a time

  15. Interpersonal Mode

  16. Language Structures I focused on: • Preterite and Imperfect • Comparisons • Gusta phrases

  17. What Challenges Does CBI Present? • It is much more challenging in the lower levels • Students may feel confused and overwhelmed; Deal with this by offering language and vocabulary instruction

  18. What Challenges Does CBI Present? Authentic Sources • It can be difficult to find resources in the target language at the proper level • Deal with this by allowing students to do their research in English and adapt it to the target language for their presentation

  19. What Challenges Does CBI Present? It is hard to teach with CBI, if you are tied to the book or to a specific set curriculum set by your district or your school

  20. SampleLesson 2 De Vacaciones en Costa Rica

  21. Interpersonal Mode: Un restaurante

  22. Interpersonal Mode

  23. Sample Lesson 3: • Holidays and Tradition in the Spanish Speaking World

  24. Presentational Mode

  25. Sample Lesson 4: La tragicavida de Frida Kahlo

  26. Sample Lesson 5Famous Argentines

  27. Meet Eva Peron

  28. Sample Lesson 5: Leyendas y Mitos

  29. Presentational Communication

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