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Martin Burrett

Cramberry - 3 views

www.cramberry.net

flashcards memory revision revise languages mfl

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Sep 12
     
    This site offers an easy way to create your own virtual flashcard to study anything. You can also use other users' cards or share your own to help students. It supports many non-European typing scripts, like simplified Chinese and Japanese to help learn languages. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Matt Crow

The speed of language: an infographic | Language Training for Corporations & Individuals - 4 views

www.languagetrainers.com/...eed-of-language-an-infographic

languages academia infographic

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  • Matt Crow on 15 Mar 12
     
    Infographic about the speed of languages, that is: how fast languages are spoken. Why do some languages sound like they're going by so fast, whereas others seem more slow and pronounced? A study was performed to find out why this is, and, it's more about the language density rather than the actual syllables per second. Slower languages tend to have a much higher information density, and the faster languages have less information transmitted per syllable; so it all evens itself out.
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.
Barbara Lindsey

Cultural borders and mental barriers: the relation... [J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009] - PubMed result - 6 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...19379035

creativity foreign living

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 25 Jun 10
     
    Five studies employing a multimethod approach systematically explored the link between living abroad and creativity.
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.
Andrew Jeppesen

Teaching Japanese through Children's Literature - 2 views

www.colorado.edu/...texts-and-contexts

japanese nihongo reading literature storytelling colorado culture

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  • Andrew Jeppesen on 14 Dec 10
     
    Teaching Japan through Children's Literature online curriculum is a collection of teacher-developed, standards-based, cross-curricular K-6 lessons. The collection is designed to promote the teaching of cultural studies of Japan while developing students' knowledge and skills in literacy and communication. Each of the six lessons features an authentic children's literature book on an aspect of Japanese culture.
Hanna Wiszniewska

Feeling your words: Hearing with your face (1/25/2009) - 0 views

www.brainmysteries.com/...rds_Hearing_with_your_face.asp

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  • Hanna Wiszniewska on 25 Jan 09
     
    This is a listener wired for sounds. - Takayuki Ito / Haskins Laboratories This is a listener wired for sounds. - Takayuki Ito / Haskins Laboratories The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory.
Barbara Lindsey

NEA: World Languages - 0 views

www.nea.org/...worldlanguages.html

articulation culture glastonbury language learning lifelong

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 11 Oct 08 - Cached
  • "The fact that our students study a language from grade one not only teaches them how to learn languages, it gives them the mindset that languages are just as important as any other subject," says Janet Eklund, now in her 20th year at Glastonbury, where she's one of two Russian teachers.
  • "All along, we're working to make them not just language proficient, but culturally aware," says Oleksak. "We always remind them that they have to learn more than just the words to relate to people from other cultures."
  • "There's a Chinese saying, that if three people pass by, one of them is your teacher. We learn from just about every experience we have," says Wang. "Then we make sense of it through our language."   
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  • Asia Society's Shuhan Wang cautions against a "language of the month" approach for districts working to build their language programs. It's more important, she says, to build on community resources and to do what you can to make language learning real-world and relevant to them.
  • Presidential candidate Barack Obama hit on some deep-seated anxiety when he remarked in July that we should emphasize foreign language learning from an early age.
  • "The U.S. will become less competitive in the global economy because of a shortage of strong foreign language and international studies programs at the elementary, high school, and college levels," the Committee for Economic Development stated plainly in a 2006 report. "Our diplomatic efforts often have been hampered by a lack of cultural awareness," the report went on to say. The world is becoming so interrelated, if we don't teach our young other languages and cultural values, says Wang, "We are denying them access to the new world. It is just plain and simple. If we continue to view language learning as for the elite, for the "smart ones," or for the family who can afford to pay for it, we are really widening the gap."
  • What does it say about America that we are the only industrialized nation that routinely graduates high school students who speak only one language? Frankly, it says that if you want to talk to us—to do business with us, negotiate peace with us, learn from or teach us, or even just pal around with us—you'd better speak English.
  • "The norm is still either no foreign language or two years in high school," says Marty Abbott, director of Education at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
  • Foreign language programs are often among the first things cut by urban school administrators desperately adding math and reading classes to raise test scores.
  • "It's time to reassess what 'basic skills' really means for the 21st century," says Asia Society's Wang.
  • Not only will students learn new vocabulary in the target language, but they get to work on the concepts they need to master for other classes, and yes, for high-stakes tests. That's how they do it in Glastonbury, says Oleksak: "We pre-teach, co-teach, and post-teach what's going on in the elementary classroom."
  • The kids reason out what you get when you add three butterflies plus four butterflies: Seven, yes, but really it's practice in Chinese and math, as well as a reminder that caterpillars turn into butterflies.
  • Right now, districts like Glastonbury—with an articulated, sequential program spanning grades 1–12, state-of-the-art language labs, and all the support an administration could give—are the exception.
Barbara Lindsey

Using Twitter for Language Study « IdeaLogues - 0 views

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languages learning2.0 twitter

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 10 Oct 08 - Cached
  • So how do you find non-English-writing Twits? Serendipity:  Search Twitter for a term you’re interested in, see who’s talking about it.  For example, I searched for “Dokdo,” hoping to learn more about the controversy between Japan and South Korea over the islands known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, and found Mojin, a Japanese Twit I now follow. Twitter Search’s Advanced Search Page:  Select the language you want, put in words you’re interested in, and see what you get.  Note that for Japanese I’ve found it to be a little difficult to use actual Japanese words for some reason… Use FriendFeed’s Rooms to find interesting Twits in your target language.  Here’s a Japanese Room I belong to; here’s a Japanese News Room, although more of the links are in English. Search the followers and followings of a Twit you like.  For example, I like the NHK (Japan’s version of PBS or BBC) Twitter feed, and have found some interesting Twits to follow from the list of who NHK follows.
Isabelle Jones

TeacherTube - Aulas autosuficientes Ariño (Teruel) - 0 views

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ICT projects Research case_study video training resources Spanish

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  • Isabelle Jones on 13 Dec 08
     
    case study of a small school in Spain that uses tablet pc for all students. (in Spanish)
Patrick Higgins

Spanish Language & Culture | Home - 1 views

www.colby.edu/SLC

Spanish Grammar spanish gramatica

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  • Patrick Higgins on 06 Mar 09
     
    A teacher in my district uses this with his students to help them practice their basic grammar, but the study modules look promising.
Sheryl A. McCoy

Center for Distance and Independent Study: Detailed Course Information - 0 views

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distance high school study universtiy of missouri

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  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 23 May 08
     
    am looking for an online French class for high school students; available here
  • Sheryl A. McCoy on 23 May 08
     
    online course in French available through University of Missouri; will record and send audio assessment online for 7 & 11th lesson; 12 lessons in first half
Dugg Lowe

What is the difference between high school and college writing - 0 views

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college difference essays high papers research school writing

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  • Dugg Lowe on 11 Jul 08
     
    Studying in college requires writing numerous papers. As a college student, one of the first things you are likely to learn is that writing for college is different from writing for high school.
Claude Almansi

DIZIONARIO DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA DEI SEGNI - LIS - VIDEO ACCESSIBILI - 0 views

www.dizlis.it/modules.php

dizlis ellero levi lis malazeta primo levi webmultimediale

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  • Claude Almansi on 09 May 08
     
    Integrazione completa delle due lingue (lis e lingua parlata) http://www.webmultimediale.org/malazeta/ Su questo sito potete trovare un bellissimo video di un gruppo rock che recita,cantando, una poesia di primo levi insieme ad un ragazzo sordo che "canta" la stessa canzone. Il video a mio parere è stupendo, la lis da ancora più ritmo e suono alla canzone. Sempre sullo stesso sito potete trovare altri video simili, spettacoli teatrali per esempio, tutti accompagnati da sottotitoli e lis. Il progetto è del prof. Roberto Ellero. I suoi studi si concentrano su come rendere i video accessibili, unendo lis e sottotitoli.
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