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Martin Burrett

LearnEnglish Kids - British Council - 5 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Aug 11
     
    Learn English Kids is a great collection of resources from the British Council for children learning English as an additional language. Play games, listen and watch stories and learn songs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language
alice ayel

Learn Spanish, learn Spanish online, Rojas Spanish, Spanish online, Spanish videos - 0 views

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  • alice ayel on 22 Apr 09
     
    Spanish training online. Learn Spanish with the online video learning of Luis and Joan Rojas. Video and audio in Spanish for fluency, culture. Free demo. Spanish videos and Spanish subscription
Martin Burrett

Webinar: Supporting Special Needs Students with eBooks & Audiobooks - 2 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Jun 21 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Jun 21
     
    In this webinar, expert in eBooks Meredith Wemhoff discusses ways to engage and support learners with special needs using eBooks and audio. Using the case-study of an independent all-boys school located in Surrey, the school provides special needs students an opportunity to succeed and thrive. Many arrive to the 80-year-old institution with low self-confidence, often due to struggles they faced in traditional educational institutions caused by learning and language difficulties. This means providing a collection that meets the individual learning needs of the school's 470 students, who range in age from 8-18. ​​​​​​​ During this eye-opening webinar, Meredith will share the story of selecting, launching and promoting a digital library service that helps address learning challenges. Attendees will come away with best practices for bringing ebooks and audiobooks to their school and real-life examples of these practices in action. Don't miss out, register today!
Mariangeles Romero

Free Online Games for Language Learning | Languagegames.org - 11 views

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  • Mariangeles Romero on 08 Mar 13
     
    Learn languages with free online games. Games to learn phrases, greetings, vocabulary, numbers and grammar in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Kre Rad

Language Learning with Livemocha | Learn a Language Online - Free! - 4 views

www.livemocha.com/?lm_source=google&lm_medium=cpc&lm_campaign=EnglishFreePT_LearnEnglish&gclid=CICO5evHu60CFVGKfAodMXdhCQ

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  • Kre Rad on 06 Jan 12
     
    probably one of the most popular webspaces to learn or practise English free
mbarek Akaddar

What is Blended Learning? - Web Learning @ Penn State - 6 views

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  • mbarek Akaddar on 19 Oct 10
     
    What is Blended Learning?
Philip Seyfi

Read, write, and remember the kanji - 7 views

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shared by Philip Seyfi on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Philip Seyfi on 16 Dec 10
     
    There is a lot of differing opinion about whether foreign learners of the Japanese language should learn kanji, and whether they should be introduced at an early stage in the learning of Japanese.
Joel Josephson

ARGuing for multilingual motivation - 0 views

www.arg-education.eu

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  • Joel Josephson on 18 Mar 09
     
    ARGuing is a Comenius project funded within the European Union Lifelong Learning programme for the promotion of language learning for secondary school students (ages 13 to16).\n\nThe project has created a special collaborative, multilingual game, called an Alternate Reality Game,
Joel Josephson

Lullabies of Europe - 0 views

www.lullabies-of-europe.org

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  • Rob McTaggart on 17 Jun 08
     
    "Languages from the Cradle" is a European Union funded project to collect the lullabies of Europe..
  • Joel Josephson on 14 Dec 08
     
    Lullabies of Europe for pleasure and early language learning. A European Union funded education project .
  • Joel Josephson on 14 Dec 08
     
    Features Lullabies in 7 languages suitable for early language learning
Isabelle Jones

posting on learning new languages... - 73 views

Thank you for the link! Have also bookmarked your blog for the group... Isabelle Vahid Masrour wrote: > I've recently posted this (in Spanish): > http://internetseeker.blogspot.com/2008/10/cmo-ap...

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International School of Central Switzerland

Next Vista for Learning - 8 views

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  • International School of Central Switzerland on 04 Jan 10
     
    An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - our goal is to gather a set of resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!
Gramarye Gramarye

How to Learn English Verbs with an iPod - 5 views

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  • Gramarye Gramarye on 24 Apr 10
     
    f you want to know how to learn English verbs with an iPod, you are in the right place. Rory Ryder has published a book called "101 English Verbs for your iPod", and it is FANTASTIC!
Martin Burrett

Learning Chocolate - 14 views

www.learningchocolate.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Oct 11
     
    A superb language site for learning vocabulary. Choose to learn to and from English, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages%2C+Culture+%26+International+Projects
Pamela Arraras

Foreign Language Teaching Wiki - Culture - 1 views

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  • The main exposure students had to the culture of the target language was through controlled interaction with native speakers in the classroom.
  • Language & culture are more naturally integrated in this approach. Culture instruction is connected to grammar instruction. Its main goal is to teach students how to use the target language when communicating in a cultural context
  • the following are other common approaches to teaching culture: (from Omaggio) The Frankenstein Approach: A taco from here, a flamenco dancer from there, a gaucho from here, a bullfight from there. The 4-F Approach: Folk dances, festivals, fairs and food. The Tour Guide Approach: The identification of monuments, rivers and cities. The "By-the-Way" Approach: Sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminately to emphasize sharp differences.
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  • focusing a little more on similarities, instead of the differences, between cultures
  • Latorre believes that focusing on differences instead of on the similarities contributes to people misunderstanding other cultures, often thinking that the foreign cultures are "exotic," perhaps more exotic than they actually are. What Latorre suggests that any teacher of any foreign language should do is focus on the “true differential, the language [itself], rather than enlarging beyond proportion attitudes and activities which are either regional, outdated, or downright non-existent” (672).
  • one of the most important factors for success in learning a foreign language is the need for students to get involved in the learning process. The use of materials based on internet technologies offers many innovative ways of getting students involved in the process of learning a language. Students can get to know the target culture by means of interacting directly with native speakers via on-line communication, with mail exchanges or chatrooms.
  • From her point of view, it is crucial that the students can learn not only the language but also the diversity of the target culture. That is why, according to her, internet resources, such as newspapers and magazines, have a great importance, since they provide students with authentic and current information that can help them understand the target culture. Reading on-line newspapers makes students aware of current social phenomena.
  • According to Lee, recent studies have proved that internet resources can help students improve their language skills in a similar way to full immersion or study abroad, although are based basically on written communication. Besides, this use of on-line resources are more beneficial to students at the advanced level because they require a high level of language proficiency to read, comprehend, and respond to cultural readings, for example, newspapers.
  • The most important part of Stern's research involves his 3-level framework of foreign culture pedagogy: teaching social sciences, applying theory/research, and their practical applications in the classroom. In the 1990s, Stern's cultural/communication mix evolved from describing sociocultural contexts of second language/foreign language to contexts of competence in second culture acquisition (not just language acquisition). This is the first time that cultural pedagogy and social sciences had been paired.
  • In H.H. Stern's breakthrough 1983 study "Fundamental concepts of language Teaching," there are concepts of day-to-day culture and customs that should be used in the classroom. Stern uses a four component model including a 'cultural syllabus' for culture teaching.
  • Foreign language (FL) teachers should make culture more of a central role in the class FL teachers should throw out teaching culture in terms of isolated facts FL teachers should have an awareness of the past on the present within any culture without focusing too much on the past FL teachers should be aware of cognitive and affective influences on the students FL teachers should engage students as active participants FL teachers should teach culture in such a way that students can be cross-cultural here and abroad Given that the teacher’s assumptions about how language and lang learning affect how he or she teaches lang and culture, the approach should aim for communicative competence (that is, real communication)
  • Tang discussed the use of performance-based theory developed by Walker (2000) who suggests that culture could be better taught if done through simulated social interactions in the classroom, for example hosting a guest or accepting a gift. This serves to create a “default memory” within the student's mind that will help him perform in the target culture without drawing conclusions or using as a reference his own base culture which could lead to misunderstandings.
  • Tang also discourages the pure instruction of behavioral culture in the classroom and says that to perform effectively in a target culture one must not only be able to master it linguistically, be familiar with its artifacts, norms and rituals but also with the meaning system, or the hidden significance underlying these. This is why she believes that Walker's performance-based theory can only work properly if the true meaning system underlying the simulated situations and interations created in the classroom are internalized by the students.
  • the Three P's, into three separate categories: cultural perspectives, cultural products, and cultural practices. Cultural perspectives are the values, beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions shared within a culture. Cultural products are things such as literature, music, art, or even utensils such as chopsticks; tangible items that are linked to a certain culture. Cultural practices are the acceptable behavioral patterns, forms of discourse, and rites of passage within a specific culture.
  • the goals are that students "demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied," which means that we should encourage the students to understand why other cultures do what they do and what the members of that culture think about the reasons behind what they do. In addition, the students should come to an understanding of "the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied." This means that we should enlighten the students on what members of other cultures do and what these peoples' own opinions are about what they do. Moreover, culture should be starting point for all classroom education. In keeping with the 5 C's, culture is used to make comparisons and connections about communities and in doing so students can have meaningful communication within those communties.
  • According to Omaggio: Culture is complex and elusive and is difficult to include in linear instructional formats. Culture requires time that many teachers feel that do not have. Teachers avoid culture because of their own perceived lack of knowledge. Culture often requires both teacher and learner to move beyond their level of comfort when confronted with deeper, sometimes controversial issues. When teaching languages that are spoken in many different countries, e.g., Spanish, where are the cultural boundaries? Balancing Big C with Little C.
  • Strategies, techniques, and tools for teaching culture in the classroom
Nergiz Kern

25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online - Virtual Education Websites | AceOnline... - 0 views

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    Virtual learning experiences online
Philip Seyfi

Learn Japanese the fun way | Nihongoup - 0 views

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  • Philip Seyfi on 15 Jun 09
     
    Learn Japanese in a new way! A fun Japanese reviewing tool for foreign learners and native speakers alike.
Claude Almansi

Culturally Accessible E-Learning - Andrea Edmundson - April 09 - ASTD - 0 views

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  • Claude Almansi on 09 Apr 09
     
    Companies readily embrace e-learning to train global workforces, but fail to recognize the impact of cultural differences on the programs' success. Leaving out cultural analysis or failing to recognize cultural differences can endanger the success of globalization efforts.
Nergiz Kern

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KyleMawer GrahamStanley e-learning gaming languages

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  • Nergiz Kern on 27 Mar 09
     
    Language learning and teaching with computer games. Adapting computer games to language learning. A collection of resources by Kyle Mawer
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