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Martin Burrett

Fun With Chinese Learning - 5 views

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Chinese Mandarin mfl languages

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  • Martin Burrett on 01 Jan 15
     
    A great site for learning Mandarin with fun games. Some of the instructions are in Chinese.
Martin Burrett

Persuasive letter about writing persuasive letter - 7 views

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letter non-fiction persuasion persuasive

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  • Martin Burrett on 23 Feb 15
     
    A letter which attempts to persuade the reader to write their own persuasive letter, and which highlights some of the main points to include.
Maggie Verster

How to Write Your Name in Different Styles and Languages - 15 views

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write languages

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  • Maggie Verster on 09 Jun 10
     
    Some really cool ways to write things in different languages and ancient formats.
Nergiz Kern

http://ielanguages.com/frenchlistening.html - 7 views

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podcasts french

shared by Nergiz Kern on 14 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Nergiz Kern on 14 Aug 10
     
    French podcasts, some with transcripts
Barbara Lindsey

Education Week: Science Grows on Acquiring New Language - 6 views

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language learning brain research advocacy

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • For example, when babies born to native-English-speaking parents played three times a week during that window with a native-Mandarin-speaking tutor, at 12 months, they had progressed in their ability to recognize both English and Mandarin sounds, rather than starting to retrench in the non-native language. By contrast, children exposed only to audio or video recordings of native speakers showed no change in their language trajectory. Brain-imaging of the same children backed up the results of test-based measures of language specialization.
  • The research may not immediately translate into a new language arts curriculum, but it has already deepened the evidence for something most educators believe instinctively: Social engagement, particularly with speakers of multiple languages, is critical to language learning.
  • “The key to that series of studies is exposure and live interactions with native speakers,” Ms. Lebedeva said. “The interactions need to be naturalistic: eye contact, gestures, exaggerated phonemes.”
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  • “Human brains are wired to learn best in social interactions, whether that learning is about language or problem-solving or emotion,” Ms. Lebedeva said, “but language is such a ubiquitous human behavior that studying it gives us an example of how more general learning takes place.”
  • at the science-oriented Ultimate Block Party held in New York City this month, children of different backgrounds played games in which they were required to sort toys either by shape or color, based on a rule indicated by changing flashcards. A child sorting blue and yellow ducks and trucks by shape, say, might suddenly have to switch to sorting them by color. The field games exemplified research findings that bilingual children have greater cognitive flexibility than monolingual children. That is, they can adapt better than monolingual children to changes in rules—What criteria do I use to sort?—and close out mental distractions—It doesn’t matter that some blue items are ducks and some are trucks.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 26 Oct 10
     
    researchers long thought the window for learning a new language shrinks rapidly after age 7 and closes almost entirely after puberty. Yet interdisciplinary research conducted over the past five years at the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, and other colleges suggest that the time frame may be more flexible than first thought and that students who learn additional languages become more adaptable in other types of learning, too.
Claude Almansi

Top 15 Open Source CMS Systems | Web Hosting Fan 2010-03-31 - 3 views

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CMS open source webhostingfan

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  • Claude Almansi on 10 Nov 10
     
    "You have all heard about the more popular open source content management systems such as Joomla and Drupal. However, there are many more open source content management systems out there that are more than capable of accommodating the needs of your website. In fact, some of the less popular CMSs actually provide features that cannot be found in the standard CMS. Not all CMS live up to their developer's hype though, so we've compiled a comprehensive list of the top 20 open source content management systems."
Claude Almansi

My KPFA - Black Mass (Making of - OTR) - 0 views

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KPFA black mass OTR

shared by Claude Almansi on 21 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 21 Mar 09
     
    Black Mass was born in 1963, the brain-child of Jack Nessel, who was the Drama & Literature Director at KPFA in Berkeley, the first voluntarily listener-sponsored non-commercial FM station in the world. (The BBC was compulsorily supported by a government-imposed license system.) Jack suggested the idea to Erik Bauersfeld, who taught aesthetics and philosophy at the California School of Fine Art, and had recently begun to do readings of classic and modern literature for the station. Erik was not wildly enthusiastic, but thought that it might be interesting to search out some of the best stories of the supernatural by first-rate authors who did not normally write within that genre. Obligation soon became obsession.
Barbara Lindsey

Using Twitter for Language Study « IdeaLogues - 0 views

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languages learning2.0 twitter

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 10 Oct 08 - Cached
  • So how do you find non-English-writing Twits? Serendipity:  Search Twitter for a term you’re interested in, see who’s talking about it.  For example, I searched for “Dokdo,” hoping to learn more about the controversy between Japan and South Korea over the islands known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, and found Mojin, a Japanese Twit I now follow. Twitter Search’s Advanced Search Page:  Select the language you want, put in words you’re interested in, and see what you get.  Note that for Japanese I’ve found it to be a little difficult to use actual Japanese words for some reason… Use FriendFeed’s Rooms to find interesting Twits in your target language.  Here’s a Japanese Room I belong to; here’s a Japanese News Room, although more of the links are in English. Search the followers and followings of a Twit you like.  For example, I like the NHK (Japan’s version of PBS or BBC) Twitter feed, and have found some interesting Twits to follow from the list of who NHK follows.
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

How to Learn English Online : Some Techniques by Nellie Deutsch - 0 views

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english free

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  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch on 04 Oct 08
     
    Learn English online for free!
Stéphane Métral

Self-Education Resource List - 0 views

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education books resources ressources

shared by Stéphane Métral on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Stéphane Métral on 27 Feb 09
     
    Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.
Claude Almansi

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Vote Yes on New Radio Technology During NPR's Live Captioned B... - 0 views

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Harris NPR radio captioning elections US

shared by Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Dec 08
     
    While millions of U.S. citizens voted for national and local elections last week, some of the nation's deaf and hard of hearing citizens were casting important votes on the future of captioned radio
Claude Almansi

Naming My Sources: Part 2 (Nik Peachey) - 0 views

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blog efl english esl esl-efl peachey resources sources training

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  • Claude Almansi on 18 Sep 08
     
    In this second part I'd like to spread the word about some of the more ELT and Educationally orientated blogs which have provided me with a wealth of information and professional development.
Claude Almansi

Learning technology teacher development blog: Artificial Intelligence Chat bots and EFL... - 0 views

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chat efl english esl esl-efl peachey

shared by Claude Almansi on 18 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 18 Sep 08
     
    ...To get an idea of what a 'chat bot' is, got to this page and start asking Abraham Lincoln some questions: http://www.virsona.com/ecchat.aspx?cvid=212
Isabelle Jones

Day in a Sentence - List | Diigo - 0 views

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idea links training writing

shared by Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08
     
    Maybe some of this could be done in a foreign language...
James OReilly

Google Translation Center: The World's Largest Translation Memory - GigaOM - 0 views

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shared by James OReilly on 05 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Google is preparing to launch Google Translation Center
  • This is an interesting move, and it has broad implications for the translation industry, which up until now has been fragmented and somewhat behind the times, from a technology standpoint
  • Google has been investing significant resources in a multi-year effort to develop its statistical machine translation technology.
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  • Google Translation Center is a straightforward and very clever way to gather a large corpus of parallel texts to train its machine translation systems.
  • If Google releases an API for the translation management system, it could establish a de facto standard for integrated machine translation and translation memory, creating a language platform around which projects like Der Mundo can build specialized applications and collect more training data.
  • On the other hand, GTC could be bad news for translation service bureaus — especially those that use proprietary translation management systems as a way to hold customers and translators hostage.
  • For freelancers, GTC could be very good news; they could work directly with clients and have access to high quality productivity tools. Overall this is a welcome move that will force service providers to focus on quality, while Google, which is competent at software, can focus on building tools.
  • That strategy would also eliminate a potential conflict of interest
  • translation professionals are understandably wary of contributing to something that could put them out of work
  • as well as avoid channel conflicts with partners who will be their best advocates in selling to various clients
  • my guess is Google will make this a free tool for the translation industry to use, and it will figure the money part out later. It can afford to be patient
  • I remain convinced that a multilingual web will be a reality in a short time, and that a menagerie of tools and services will emerge over the next few years — some geared toward helping translators, some toward building translation communities, and others that make publishing multilingual sites and blogs easy and intuitive.
  • the web will begin translating itself, and within a short time
Isabelle Jones

moi. ma vie. mon métier - vidéos - 0 views

www.maviemonmetier.tv/videos.html

advanced french music resources sow video

shared by Isabelle Jones on 07 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Isabelle Jones on 07 Jun 08
     
    Some interesting resources to teach jobs
Claude Almansi

Current Projects - Croquet Consortium - Immersive Language Instruction Tool - 0 views

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croquet delicious immersion language opencroquet.org simulazione virtual virtuale

shared by Claude Almansi on 02 May 08 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 02 May 08
     
    Here is a movie of a prototype that Mark McCahill's group made with along with some University of Minnesota folks interested in technology assisted language acquisition ... http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/betterLangDemo.mov
Lauren Rosen

Languages Online - 2 views

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games BER language games

shared by Lauren Rosen on 22 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 21 Dec 10
     
    Several game makers and ready-made activities. Some are PC only but handy all the same. Mostly downloads so good for those with poor or unreliable connections in your classroom.
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