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Stéphane Métral

Google Search: When You Can't Find it on Twitter - 0 views

mashable.com/...google-search-twitter

twitter google research rechercher

shared by Stéphane Métral on 27 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Stéphane Métral on 27 Apr 09
     
    I'm saying that when it comes to current events, Google is nowhere near Twitter's speed and scope.
Martin Burrett

Spell Up - 6 views

ukedchat.com/...spell-up

English spelling game

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jun 17
     
    Fun Chrome experiment where users listen to a word and then type or say to input the letters. Three difficulty levels available.
Martin Burrett

Language Teaching: A Practical approach by @Natalieburdett9 - 3 views

ukedchat.com/...ge-teaching-practical-approach

languages language mfl

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Jan 18
     
    "As I stood in the school hall, during an assembly on National Languages Day, I felt such pride, but equally astonishment at how the children had embraced the task of saying hello in as many languages as possible. I watched in amazement as the 34th child stood up in front of the school to share his knowledge of yet another greeting from a different country. I don't know whether it was the sheer volume of children or their confidence whilst standing in front of the school and speak a different language that struck me most, but whatever it was, made me reflect on how I had come to be in this moment."
Martin Burrett

Bilingual children learn other languages easier - 1 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 17
     
    "It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the first study to examine bilingual and monolingual brains as they learn an additional language offers new evidence that supports this hypothesis, researchers say. The study, conducted at Georgetown University Medical Center and published in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, suggests that early bilingualism helps with learning languages later in life."
Stéphane Métral

What are your favourite tools to teach or learn languages ? - 289 views

Bonjour, I teach French to foreigners recently arrived in Geneva. We have 2 Mac in class in a computer room with a PC for each student I use a blog to make my students write and t...

languages teaching tools

started by Isabelle Jones on 07 Jun 08 6 follow-ups, last by Stéphane Métral on 22 Feb 09
Claude Almansi

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

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shared by Claude Almansi on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 30 Apr 12
     
    "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"
  • Claude Almansi on 30 Apr 12
     
    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.
Michèle Drechsler

Socialbookmarking et Education. Une enquête qui peut vous intéresser - 7 views

Bonjour Je suis doctorante en sciences de l'information et de la communication à l'Université de Metz.(France). Ma recherche pose le focus sur les pratiques du socialbookmarking dans le domaine d...

enquête socialbookmarking

started by Michèle Drechsler on 08 Jul 09 no follow-up yet
Barbara Lindsey

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

www.edweek.org/...09window_ep.h30.html

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.
Joel Bennett

Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What? - 0 views

www.danah.org/...MSRTechFest2009.html

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shared by Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Social media is driven by another buzzword: "user-generated content" or content that is contributed by participants rather than editors.
  • I'm going to share my research in three acts: 1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
  • Facebook was narrated as the "safe" alternative and, in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred. Those college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook while teens from urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace while simultaneously rejecting the fears brought on by American media. Many kids were caught in the middle and opted to use both, but the division that occurred resembles the same "jocks and burnouts" narrative that shaped American schools in the 1980s.
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  • over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • many adults have jumped in, but what they are doing there is often very different than what young people are doing.
  • Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social network sites. Even if they are just trying to talk to their friends, those who hold power over them are going to access everything they wrote if it's in public
  • while you can replicate a conversation, it's much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences. We are used to being able to assess the people around us when we're speaking. We adjust what we're saying to account for the audience. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences.
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate
  • Joel Bennett on 18 Mar 09
     
    1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
Andrew Jeppesen

How To Say That Name.com - 0 views

www.howtosaythatname.com

names pronunciation efl esl mfl

shared by Andrew Jeppesen on 05 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Andrew Jeppesen on 05 Dec 08
     
    A guide to pronouncing names from around the world - with sound files.
Isabelle Jones

Wordle - Frequently Asked Questions - 0 views

wordle.net/faq

display ideas wordle

shared by Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Wordle is a Java applet, and Java applets are not permitted to write anything to your disk. So, while the applet could generate a jpeg, it wouldn't be able to give it to you! You can certainly take a screenshot of the Wordle applet.
  • There's a "Print..." button below the Wordle area, on the left-hand side. Press it. You will be prompted to allow the Wordle "Java applet" to access your printer. Please check the checkbox that says "Always permit", and accept the dialog.
  • Windows users will need to use third-party software to generate a PDF from the print dialog. Adobe Acrobat is fine, but I happen to use the free-as-in-beer CutePDF Writer. I have no relationship to the folks who make CutePDF, nor do I take any responsibility for anything that might happen as a result of your using it. If you do use CutePDF, you'll also need to install Ghostscript, a free-as-in-speech PostScript interpreter. The PDFs you make in this way are fully scalable, and suitable for making posters, T-Shirts, what have you. Please tell me about anything interesting you've done with Wordle.
  • Isabelle Jones on 19 Jun 08
     
    refer to paragraphs about PDF
Andrew Jeppesen

Room Design Games, Virtual Room Design at Fun Dress up Games - 0 views

www.fun-dress-up-games.com/room-design-games.html

design flash games houses japanese mfl roomdesign

shared by Andrew Jeppesen on 18 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Andrew Jeppesen on 18 Jun 08
     
    Has several links to flash game sites where you can arrange furniture. Have used 1 for listening activity on the housing topic. I used Japanese to say where things were in the room and students had to place the items in the correct spot.
Andrew Jeppesen

Design Your Room Game by ~dcoolit on deviantART - 0 views

dcoolit.deviantart.com/...Design-Your-Room-Game-51235661

design flash houses japanese lote mfl roomdesign

shared by Andrew Jeppesen on 23 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Andrew Jeppesen on 23 Jun 08
     
    Lets you place furniture wherever you like in a room (flash). I used this as a listening activity for the topic houses & saying where things are (on, under, etc). Also students did it as a pairwork exercise.
James OReilly

China Leads Web 2.0 Usage - 0 views

www.multilingualblog.com/...ina-leads-web-20-usage-say-bcg

blogos

shared by James OReilly on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • James OReilly on 18 Jul 08
     
    China Leads Web 2.0 Usage
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