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“Smart” Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom

“Smart” Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom. Starring these resources! *AUTHENTIC * *LANGUAGE LEARNING * *CULTURE *. Today’s Agenda. I. Preview of SUPERSITES for “SB” use II. Vision/ Goal’s of FL Learning/ 5 C’s III. SB role in achieving those goals.

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“Smart” Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom

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  1. “Smart” Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom Starring these resources! *AUTHENTIC * *LANGUAGE LEARNING * *CULTURE *

  2. Today’s Agenda • I. Preview of SUPERSITES for “SB” use • II. Vision/ Goal’s of FL Learning/ 5 C’s • III. SB role in achieving those goals. • IV. SB teaching tools for everyday • V. Planning/ Daily Teaching w/ SB • VI. Assessments that motivate and promote communication skills

  3. Final Hour 1-2pm • You will prepare a powerpoint and lesson plan for this week that includes these: • Setting the Stage • Providing Input • Guiding Participation • Extension Activity

  4. SUPERSITES • http://www.merlot.org • http://cortland.edu/flteach • http://clta.net/lessons/index.html • http://langlink.net/langlink • http://nflrc.msu.edu • http://eleaston.com • http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html • http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html

  5. SUPERSITES • VIDEO : http://bbc.co.uk/languages http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu http://laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html http://laits.utexas.edu/fi http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/curriculum/modlang/index.htm http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

  6. Latin only! • http://www.perseus.edu/ • http://www.apaclassics.org • http://www.stoa.org/diotima/ • http://www.aclclassics.org/index.html • http://www.archaeological.org • http://www.ccel.org/fathers2

  7. How can this technology improve foreign language teaching? • First, let’s identify the goals, vision or “Standards for Language Learning in the 21st Century”

  8. What are the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century? • Communication • Cultures • Connections • Comparisons • Communities The 5 C’s

  9. What does this mean to FL teachers? Foreign Language is a “content” area which requires meaningful, comprehensible, interesting “input” in the classroom to promote communication skills and knowledge of the target culture.

  10. COMMUNICATION • 1.1 INTERPERSONAL Communication Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. • 1.2 INTERPRETIVE Communication Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics • 1.3. PRESENTATIONAL Communication Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics

  11. CULTURESGain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures • 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. • 2.2. Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.

  12. CONNECTIONS • 3.1 Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language. • 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

  13. COMPARISONS • 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisions of the language studied and their own. • 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

  14. COMMUNITIES • 5.1 Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. • 5.2 Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

  15. The 5 C’s: Standards for FL Learning • COMMUNICATION • CULTURES • CONNECTIONS • COMPARISONS • COMMUNITIES Each class we should include several “standards”-- and keeping them in mind will improve the quality of our teaching.

  16. What are you teaching now? • Let’s think about these 5 Standards for a moment and see how they could lead you to a more enriching teaching experience.

  17. Teaching numbers… • To teach the “numbers 1-100” I thought about how I could teach “content” and promote interpersonal communication: I remembered I had heard “If the world were reduced to 100 people….” How many would be….? I googled it! This is available in English, Spanish, French. http://www.miniature-earth.com

  18. “Smart” technology promotes … All 3 modes of COMMUNICATION 1.1 Interpersonal communication skills 1.2 Interpretive communication skills 1.3 Presentational communication skills There’s a teaching model that includes all 3!

  19. How do we teach these 3 forms of communication in the classroom? • Interactive model to integrate the 3 modes of Communication

  20. Interactive model to integrate the 3 modes of communication INTERPRETIVE Teacher presents interesting oral presentation (online, video clip, dialog) or written text in interactive way w/students INTERPERSONAL Students in pairs have guided questions to more clearly understand PRESENTATIONAL Students present opinions, answers, analysis

  21. My daily teaching model involves • Setting the Stage (focus students on topic, activate background knowledge) • Providing Input (oral “input” on topic) • Guided Participation (grammar in context) • Extension/ Pair work

  22. From the first day of class…. • Where is Spanish spoken? • This lesson can be done all in Spanish involving students in an interactive activity via “smart” technology. • www.sheppardsoftware.com

  23. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching names? • Why not show the common nicknames for the names in the target language and the background of common last names? • http://www.juegosdepalabras.com/hipocor.htm • http://behindthename.com/nmc/spa.html

  24. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching articles? • Use art and point out interesting details. • Where is “the”____. Google and paste any painting!

  25. Picasso’s Guernica www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemingway/picasso/guernica.htm

  26. Interpersonal Communication What art might you choose to use in your teaching? Any favorite artists? • Ask students to circle items of interest in the paintings that you or students mention

  27. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching numbers 1-1,000,000? • Every teacher does this at some time! • Why not imbed it in meaningful “content” and have the students learn about the world at the same time? www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/especiales/mundolatino/map_yellow1.shtml

  28. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching nationalities • Use an interactive current map of languages spoken in the U.S. http://www.mla.org/census_main

  29. Interpersonal Communication • Describing families? • Why not use websites on artists in the target culture that depict families in different periods? • http://www.carmenlomasgarza.com

  30. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching verb tenses • http://colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises Telling time (for the “kid” in you!) http://concurso.cnice.mec.es/cnice2005/115_el_reloj/index.html

  31. Interpersonal Communication • Teaching weather expressions? • Why not frame discussions about which days in the 10 day forecast are looking good using the real weather forecast? • http://weather.com/espanol • http://weather.com/french • http://wunderground.com (latin too!)

  32. This technology promotes the development of conversation skills • Interpersonal Communication is developed through meaningful interaction in the classroom on varied topics which are presented in an interactive and interesting format.

  33. Interpretive Communication • Listening tosongs, cultural video clips, poems, narratives. • Students can demonstrate that they understand written and spoken language. • http://colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises • http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages • http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/curriculum/modlang/index.htm

  34. Interpretive Communication • Unscripted video series: http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu • Scripted video series http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages http://lepointdufle.net • http://TV5.org www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/ (Latin radio!)

  35. Interpretive Communication • Reading about the target culture • http://www.red2000.com/spain • http://mexico.udg.mx • http://elbalero.gob.mx • http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/Index.html

  36. Interpretive Communication • http://cortland.edu/flteach • http://clta.net/lessons • http://merlot.org • http://www.langlink.net/langlink

  37. Interpretive Communication • What “authentic” materials are available to us through this technology? • http://spain.info/tourspain/?language/=es • http://thepaperboy.com • http://sportec.es

  38. “Authentic Materials”Made by native speakers for native speakers! Art Music Newspapers Travel Shopping TV Sports

  39. Can students “interpret” authentic materials? * Choose newspapers from a particular country and compare headlines. www.thepaperboy.com (reading) * TV programs www.TV5.org (listening) • Songs www.espacefrancophone.org/audiovisuel/fiche.htm

  40. This technology allows students to build “interpretive” skills • LISTENING: video clips, songs, stories, poems, narratives…. • READING: stories, newpapers, tourist info, advertisements, restaurant menus, travel guides….

  41. Presentational Communication • Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. • This technology is ideal for students to “present” and showcase their oral or written skills. Powerpoint and oral presentations are great learning tools.

  42. What teacher aids are easily accessible? • Grammar aids • Currency exchange rates • Dictionaries • Weather reports • Pronunciation guides • Verb conjugations • Other high school FL websites

  43. Teacher aids easily accessible • Videos • Podcasts • Accents in FL (for writing assignments) • Maps galore (google Earth!)

  44. ….more teacher aids • Videos on every topic you are teaching! See “supersites” for video. http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages http://laits.utexas.edu/tex http://laits.utexas.edu/fi http://laits.utexas.edu/spe/index.html

  45. …more teaching aids • Podcasts • Ipod + broadcast = “podcast” • http://nflrc.msu.edu (type in “podcasts” in the materials box)

  46. What about grammar? • Grammar “in context” is provided to promote real learning of the language and not mechanical practice. • http://colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises • http://laits.utexas.edu/tex • http://www.latis.utexas.edu/fi • http://lepointdufle.net

  47. Instant currency exchange ratesavailable at a touch!http://xe.com

  48. Instant verb conjugations • http://spanishverbmachine.com • http://leconjugueur.com • http://www.polarfle.com

  49. Instant Dictionary • http://wordreference.com Latin: http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm

  50. Typing Accents • http://spanish.typeit.org • http://french.typeit.org • http://german.typeit.org

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