“instrumental empathy” (sometimes known as “impact anthropology”) can go a long way.
Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online | Teacher Network Blog... - 1 views
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People | Greater Good Magazine - 6 views
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“instrumental empathy” (sometimes known as “impact anthropology”) can go a long way.
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ambitious imagination
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Foreign language learning more vital than ever in post-Brexit world | Letters | Educati... - 3 views
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This article from The Guardian discusses the impact of the government decision to lower the requirements for learning a world language based on the belief that, once the England leaves the EU, other languages won't be necessary. Essentially their equivalent of the Education Department is changing back to more extensive requirements so that by 2025 90% of students will be studying a language again.
What's the best way to teach languages? | Teacher Network | The Guardian - 7 views
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my approach is much more topic based with as little grammar as possible
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Although this article is about British language education and it's two years old, my interest was piqued when I read it: ""Languages cannot be taught, they can only be learnt. The best way is to tell students right away that they are responsible for their own learning process, and the teacher is just a guide who has to motivate them."" Made me think about relevancy and how Tech is only one part of that.
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Really interesting. I wonder if we changed the setting to the U.S. if the same difficulties would apply. I never really thought about grammar being discarded simply because students don't know it well enough. While I've found that most students we teach don't understand their mother tongue, I still think that the shift to task-based work had as much to do with the lack of real communication skills. Just teaching them grammar and relying on them to go abroad to learn to speak wasn't doing it. That being said, I think the mixture of methods is best, and by mixture I mean the integration of many methods into accomplishing a task. And I agree that the meta-learning is key.
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I remember getting a comment from a student once, many years ago, that she had learned more about English grammar in my Spanish class than anywhere else... (sigh)
Is technology a silver bullet for language teaching and learning? | Teacher Network | T... - 2 views
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Used wrongly, computers could even damage learning. "Technology can be a distraction," says Warschauer. "I remember observing a beginners' French class a number of years ago, the teacher bragged about how engaged the learners were in creating multimedia in French. However, the students were spending most of their time and energy talking with each other in English about how to make PowerPoints, when, as beginning learners, they really needed to be spending time hearing as much French as possible."
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Media Use in the Classroom - 2 views
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Joe Dale explores how languages teachers have embraced technology in the classroom
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The use of social media has allowed colleagues to get to know each other as real people not just teachers and this has strengthened the sense of cohesion, solidarity and collective confidence.
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gy suited to MFL? Well, one of the fundamentals of language learning is re
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Using social media as a language learning tool | Teacher Network | The Guardian - 3 views
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Five ways you can start to engage with your pupils on social media
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reate a Facebook page
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Create a Twitter account. S
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This article is about England but has some good tips for beginning to engage students using social media. It also shows that other countries struggle with promoting the importance of FL learning too.
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This blog provides facts about the influence of new technology in society and it engages instructors to be updated and open to new ways of teaching. It also provides some examples on how we can engage our students to learn languages through the use of social media. Carlatech17
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