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How We Made An Excellent Speaking Activity Even Better | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of t... - 0 views

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    A great way to scaffold a speaking activity for language learners.
Barbara Lindsey

News: Expanding Language by (Online) Degree - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • As for those other 18 credits, Cencich and Khalil say they are confident that students will learn just as well online as they did in the classroom.
  • For professors, it means that no one would be losing his or her job — for now, anyway
  • PASSHE faces the usual doubts about fully online language instruction — especially in the context of a whole degree program, which would theoretically shepherd students all the way from ignorance to proficiency without ever having them cross the threshold of a classroom.
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  • “The way you teach a language is not about grammar; it's about communication skills,” Yan says. “So that face-to-face aspect has to be there…. It should never be done by students checking out a website and doing drills. That is not my idea of an online course.”
  • But in general Ruth, who teaches Spanish, says he remains wary of where offering online degrees in relatively low-demand languages might lead. “We don’t want this to leak into the areas where real interest lies and where real instructors are,” he says.
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