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Title | Taking Learning into Your Own Hands: Evaluating Online Resources |
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Source | CASLS Activity of the Week |
Body | By Renée Marshall, CASLS Flagship Coordinator The goal of this activity is to encourage students to take their language learning into their own hands by practicing evaluating an online resource. Online resources vary in genre such as websites targeted toward language learners, or websites in the target language, geared toward L1 speakers, such as newspaper websites, magazine websites, sport pages, blogs, etc. Not all resources are equal; so it's important for language learners to be savvy about evaluating the uses and usefulness of different sources of language practice. We also want students to take an interest in the language they are learning outside the classroom as well as inside the classroom. Good online resources give students a way to explore their particular interests in their L2 – music, movies, sports, fashion, nitty-gritty grammar explanations, etc. Students may even start participating in online blogs, fan fiction and gaming in the target language, making the L2 a fun language they use everyday instead of only something they do in the classroom and for homework. This example activity is very simple and has students practice evaluating one particular resource: the Korean language learning website, Talk to Me in Korean (TTMIK) http://www.talktomeinkorean.com/. This activity can be adapted for other online resources in any language. Objectives:
Resources: Evaluating an online resource handout Procedure:
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Publishdate | 2016-02-01 02:15:01 |