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Claude Almansi

Mickey Mouse and Company: The Band Concert with subtitles | Amara - 0 views

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    "Mickey Mouse and Company: The Band Concert "The Band Concert is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 23, 1935 by United Artists w/ a running time of 9 minutes. (...) The Band Concert was directed by Wilfred Jackson and featured adapted music by Leigh Harline. " From the description in http://fan.tcm.com/_Mickey-Mouse-38-Company-The-Band-Concert-1935/video/1640275/66470.html"
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    Hilarious and wordless except for Donald who says a few hardly understandable words: so there are no real subtitles, and the cartoon could be used for retelling activities in various languages.
Claude Almansi

Pay it forward ISL אני ואתה - תעביר את זה הלאה בשפת הסימנים - YouTube - 0 views

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    Subtitled in Hebrew "Uploaded by asaflivni on Apr 19, 2010 www.payitfwdisl.org.il במאי: אסף לבני Directed by: Asaf livni צילום: ספי הירש DP: Seffi Hirsh"
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Translation result for http://www.literaturfestival.com/news1_3_2_1800.html - 0 views

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    The Berlin internationally Literature festival is appealing for A worldwide reading OF Mahmoud Darwish ’ s poetry on 5 October 2008. The of activities accompanying this event acres designed emergency only tons honour the poet ’ s body OF work but thus his commitment tons promoting peaceful and fair coexistence between Arabs and Israeli. This appeal is directed RK cultural institution, radio station, schools, universities, theatres and all other Darwish enthusiasts the world more over.
Isabelle Jones

http://lexiquefle.free.fr/ville.swf - 0 views

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    resources to teach en ville and directions (online)
Amy Lenord

Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more! - 9 views

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    Make your own personalized maps with this mashup. I plan to have my students collaborate on maps of their neighborhoods with the intent of having them practice giving directions in Spanish.
Isabelle Jones

Getting started with Second Life : JISC - 0 views

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    This guide is aimed at those who are wanting to use Second Life for teaching in further and higher education. It provides in-depth descriptions of all aspects of the immersive world for both direct use and facilitating others' use." />www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/gettingstartedsecondlife.aspx
Martin Burrett

Sound of Text - 3 views

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    "Listen or download audio of 100 characters of text in many different languages. Perfect for language students engaged in self-directed study."
Andrew Graff

TPR Foreign Language Instruction and Dyslexia - 2 views

  • For language teachers, this accepted presumption of incapacity is a huge hurdle, because it keeps many children and adults from even dipping a toe into the language pool!
  • TPR was and is a wonderful way to turn that presumption on its head and show the learner that, not only can we learn, but under the right circumstances, it's fun!
  • When we are infants our exposure to language is virtually inseparable from physical activities. People talk to us while tickling us, feeding us, changing our diapers... We are immersed in a language we don't speak, in an environment that we explore with every part of our body. Our parents and caregivers literally walk and talk us through activities - for example, we learn lots of vocabulary while someone stands behind us at the bathroom sink, soaping our hands until they're slippery, holding them under warm water, rubbing or scrubbing, all the while talking about what we're doing and what it feels like. In this way, movement and feeling are intimately tied to the process of internalizing the language.
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  • Classes are active - you are not in your seat all period. The focus for the first weeks is on listening and moving in response to what the teacher says.
  • There is heavy emphasis on listening comprehension, because the larger your listening comprehension vocabulary is, the larger your speaking vocabulary will become.
  • Lots of language is learned in happy circumstances, especially while you're having fun.
  • In a TPR class, grammar and syntax are not taught directly. Rather, the teacher designs activities that expose the student to language in context, especially in the context of some kind of movement.
  • I'm asked with some regularity about appropriate foreign language instruction for students with a dyslexic learning or thinking style. I'm quick to recommend finding a school or program that includes - or even better - relies on TPR as its principal instructional strategy.
  • Typically, the initial TPR lessons are commands involving the whole body - stand up, sit down, turn around, walk, stop.
  • Fairly soon, the teacher quietly stops demonstrating, and the students realize that they somehow just know what to do in response to the words.
  • You're also encouraged to trust your body, because sometimes it knows what to do before your brain does!
  • As class proceeds, nouns, adverbs, prepositions are added until before you know it, students are performing commands like, 'Stand up, walk to the door, open it, stick your tongue out, close the door, turn around, hop to Jessica's desk, kiss your right knee four times, and lie down on Jessica's desk."
  • It's just that the instruction is designed to facilitate language acquisition, not learning a language through analysis, memorization and application of rules.
  • But consider your native language: you did not need to learn the grammar and syntax of your native language in order to learn to speak it. You learned those structures, unconsciously as you learned to speak.
  • The first is that in a TPR classroom, the focus is not on analysis of linguistic structures, but on internalizing those structures for unconscious use.
  • When we use TPR strategies to teach, our goal is truly to be able to understand, speak, read and write the language, not "about" the language.
  • I think this creativity, the synthetic rather than analytic experience, the low stress, and generally accepting environment engineered by the teacher, are a large part of the reason so many students, including students with learning challenges, find TPR classes so effective and enjoyable.
  • Within these real experiences, students are free to generate all kinds of expressions using the language they're studying, and to lead instruction in unique directions.
Aaron Myers

The Everyday Language Learner - 14 views

I write The Everyday Language Learner to promote and empower self-directed language learners. I would love to hear what others are doing to learn and help others learn another language and to crea...

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