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English for Kids Games with TV shows. Teaching English PBS kids Public Broadcasting Service Presented by Johanna Balcázar Claudia Moros. TEACHING AND PLAYING. Advantages
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English for Kids Games with TV shows Teaching English PBS kidsPublic Broadcasting ServicePresented by Johanna BalcázarClaudia Moros
TEACHING AND PLAYING Advantages • Kids learn better by playing since is less stress ( Ladd, Carol; ‘’A positive plan for creating more calm, less stress’’.2005.) • Kids learn when they can engage the classroom to their day to day interests. (Paratore, Jeane’’ Classroom Literacy assessment, making sense of what students know and do’’. 2007.) • Kids see the advantages of using other foreign language since opens a door to interactive activities (Flood, James, ‘Methods of research on teaching the English language arts’’.2005) • Kids can build an identity in a foreign language by seeing his heroes speaking it (Rutledge M. Dennis ‘Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation’’.2008)
WORDGIRL http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/ The WordGirl Definition Competition is a way to engage your students with vocabulary words in an entertaining and interactive context
Power Words http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/powerwords/
PBS Teachers http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Research Questions • Is it effective playing games online in the acquisition of a foreign language? • How teachers engage TV cartoons as part of children’s real life with teaching in class? • Should Colombia education system in his bilingual program design a website with English teaching oriented?