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eric paul

How to translate main Phrasal Verbs in French - 3 views

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phrasal verbs in French

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  • eric paul on 29 Sep 11
     
    How to translate main Phrasal Verbs in French, this week: to figure out, to look for, to put on, to run into. Comment traduire les verbes à prépositions en français.
Stéphane Métral

TooFAST VERSION 1.5 - 2 views

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survey teaching enseignement assessment sondage poll

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  • Stéphane Métral on 24 Nov 09
     
    TooFAST is a secure and free anonymous online assessment tool TooFAST allows anyone to develop an online assessment questionnaire that is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. TooFAST allows multiple question formats and allows an unlimited number of surveys to be completed. The software automatically summarizes and consolidates the comments, in real-time, on the web or as XML.
LUCIAN DUMA

Top 10 web tools #googlereader alternative to save favorite blogs - 7 views

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eltchat elearning googlereader via:packrati.us edchat roedchat ntchat cpchat

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  • LUCIAN DUMA on 13 Jun 13
     
    I also work to a list Top 100 google reader alternative where everyone can propose new tools / apss who can replace google reader for web / ipad and I will share this list on my blog in 2 weeks http://list.ly/list/5Kl-top-100-web-tools-ipad-apps-who-can-replace-googlereader-follow-web20education .
Lauren Rosen

Can Foreign Language Immersion Be Taught Effectively Online? | MindShift - 5 views

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online learning

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      Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
       
      Primarily interpretive activities
  • there’s really no substitute for engaging in real conversations with other people, which is one of the reasons she is fond of the districts that are using the Middlebury curriculum in blended learning classrooms
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      Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
       
      Presentational speaking
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  • record themselves and submit audio
  • blended model
  • language teacher is present one day a week, the focus is on speaking with one another and group work.
  • Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
     
    Middlebury's program is mostly interpretive with some presentational aspects so best used in a blended environment where learners have the opportunity to practice spontaneous speaking in live situations. That said, if this is the only option it seems much better than the majority of what's out there for independent language study, in my opinion.
James OReilly

Facebook Friends FriendFeed - 0 views

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  • I’ve been using FriendFeed for awhile and if you subscribe to my feed you’ll see just about everything that I do online. My feed includes all the articles I bookmark with delicious. When I write a new blog post it automatically shares it on my feed. Every time I tweet on Twitter and when I update my status on Facebook, they’re included here. When I add a video to my favorites on YouTube it is shared here as well. Currently there are 58 different sites that you can link to your FriendFeed, so it’s like the one stop shopping place for everything online!
  • FriendFeed also has a search function where someone without even registering on the site, can easily search all FriendFeed updates.
  • Facebook has been in the news quite a bit this week which they started off with the announcement that they have acquired the social-identity aggregator, FriendFeed.
Andrew Graff

TPR Foreign Language Instruction and Dyslexia - 2 views

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dyslexia foreign language TPR TPRS CIinstruction lessonplanning differentiation

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.
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