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Laura Honig

Le système scolaire français - 5 views

www.france.fr/...cais-de-la-maternelle-au-lycee

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shared by Laura Honig on 11 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Laura Honig on 11 Apr 13
     
    This link provides a great visual to the education system in France. There is a flow chart to help students understand how students go through the educational system. In addition, the reading around the chart can be done at an upper level to enforce the understanding of the different grades.
Andrew Graff

TPR Foreign Language Instruction and Dyslexia - 2 views

www.dyslexia.com/...tprlanguage.htm

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shared by Andrew Graff on 16 Jul 11 - Cached
  • 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.
Martin Burrett

http://www.textivate.com/ - 17 views

www.textivate.com

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shared by Martin Burrett on 16 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 16 Jan 13
     
    This is a great site for creating all sorts of online cloze text of missing words and sentence ordering activities. It's great for sentence and grammar work, as well as using text about topics from across the curriculum. Register for free to create text activities to share and embed. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
BeateB

German Culture and Writing Project Using Wikispaces - 9 views

german1133.wikispaces.com

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shared by BeateB on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • BeateB on 01 Dec 10
     
    This is a classroom project by University of Connecticut students who role-play fictional characters in 20th century Germany. Note: This is a work in progress, but we are happy to read your comments and feedback!
herrn 96

Talk Project - Modern foreign languages - TES - 11 views

community.tes.co.uk/...356414.aspx

shared by herrn 96 on 20 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • herrn 96 on 20 Jan 13
     
    A bit of idle browsing led to me discovering this little gem of a TES thread about spontaneous TALK in MFL classrooms. Worth a read and a reflection.
Laura Honig

Chocolate - 10 views

www.lemonde.fr/...ir-abordable_3151297_3238.html

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shared by Laura Honig on 02 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Laura Honig on 02 Apr 13
     
    This is a wonderful article about the consumption of chocolate in Europe. It is a great resource to use with your students when discussing nutrition, holidays, or conversions.
Paul Beaufait

ReadWriteThink - 0 views

www.readwritethink.org

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 07 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Paul Beaufait on 07 Jan 09
     
    Thanks to Marielle Palombo for reminding me of this site
  • Paul Beaufait on 07 Jan 09
     
    Lessons, Standards, Web Resources, Student Materials, and more, for language arts education, learners, and teachers
Joel Bennett

Interested in Trading Up for a New Kindle Touch or Kindle Fire Tablet? Pull Your Clunke... - 1 views

kindlenationdaily.com/...lunker-in-to-amazons-super-lot

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shared by Joel Bennett on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Joel Bennett on 26 Oct 11
     
    Amazon has extended its (relatively unknown) buyback program, previously associated mostly with textbooks, movies, and video games, to include a wide range of electronics products including the iPad, the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy, the Motorola Xoom, and all kinds of other devices that might prepare the way for you to buy a Kindle tablet...
Laura Honig

Spanish Graphic Organizer - 7 views

www.eduplace.com/...spanish

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shared by Laura Honig on 14 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Laura Honig on 13 Mar 13
     
    This is a great tool for Spanish language students. They are all free and can help students with their reading or writing.
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