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Title: Join CASLS at CARLA's Summer Institutes!
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Come join CASLS at The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition's (CARLA) summer institutes! CASLS Director Julie Sykes and Assistant Director Stephanie Knight will lead an institute titled Implementing Reflective Practices and Portfolios in the Language Classroom to Enhance Proficiency from June 27-July 29, 2022. This online, 5-week, primarily asynchronous institute will cover incorporating goal setting, reflective practices and portfolio use into world language classrooms. Work through asynchronous activities at your own pace and then attend weekly synchronous discussions to dig into concepts more deeply in a supportive and deeply curious learning environment. We hope to see you there!
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Title: InterCom: February 14, 2022
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Join us this week as we continue exploring one particular aspect of pragmatics: awareness, or the ability to analyze someone’s reaction and adjust your language choices accordingly. This week we take a look at cues that signal an interaction is going well.
Thank you to CASLS Graduate Intern, Aissa Canteras, for her role in the creation of this week’s video. Thank you to CASLS Student Worker, Madi Collins, for her role in the creation of this week’s activity.
There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:
- Join our InterCom Live! session. We connect on Facebook every Monday at 11:00 am Pacific. To join us, open CASLS's Facebook page at the designated time. Can't make it? The InterCom Live! events are always recorded, and you can find them on our Facebook page.
- Check out the Activity of the Week! This activity guides learners through identifying three cues one can use in the target language to tell if a conversation is going well, and reflecting on differences between cues in the target language versus the L1(s).
- Check out this video for more about awareness and the verbal and nonverbal cues one can use to gauge someone else’s reaction during a conversation.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
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Title: Wordles of the World Unite!
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From: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
Have you tried Wordle, the daily word guessing game in English, and wished there was a version in a language that you are learning or teaching? This GitHub site maintains a comprehensive list of Wordle-like games that have been built for different languages. As of this writing, there are 471 variations of games available in 118 different languages. The list includes general versions of Wordle-like games sorted by language, domain-specific versions of the game (which use a specific theme or vocabulary) sorted by language, and resources for creating one’s own games. It also includes many links to media about the games in the target languages. This list would be a good resource for those looking to challenge their own, or their learners’, vocabulary recall in the target language.
Visit: https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
Source: Wordles of the World
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Title: Designing Digital Audio Guides for Language Learning with izi.Travel
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From: https://fltmag.com/digital-audio-guides-izitravel/
This blog post describes how the izi.Travel app, an open-sourse digital travel guide, can be adapted for use by language learners. The app allows users to create their own multimedia travel guides by making audio recordings about landmarks or other places of interest in a location of their choosing and uploading them along with relevant photos or other visual information. Learners can also listen to and look at travel guides made by others. This tool would be useful for place-based and project-based learning applications, and for practicing listening comprehension and presentational speaking.
Visit: https://fltmag.com/digital-audio-guides-izitravel/
Source: The FLTMag, Ilaria Compagnoni
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Title: 10 German Words That Describe Pandemic Life
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From: https://blogs.transparent.com/german/10-german-words-that-describe-pandemic-life/
This blog post explains the meaning and etymology of 10 new German words that were coined over the last two years of the Coronavirus pandemic. Tackling the challenges of pandemic experiences through the lens of new vocabulary, the post offers insight into how words can be created in German to describe novel experiences. It would be a useful resource for learners or teachers of German who are interested in learning how to speak about pandemic-related experiences using contemporary vocabulary.
Visit: https://blogs.transparent.com/german/10-german-words-that-describe-pandemic-life/
Source: German Language Blog, Constanze
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Title: Call for Proposals: The 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022)
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The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce the 2022 Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference (PLL 2022), which will take place online on September 12-14, 2022.
The conference main theme will be Teaching and Learning Interactional Pragmatics in a Digital World, but we welcome a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction, and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We hope this conference brings together scholars and educators from all around the world who are interested in discussing both established and innovative approaches to teaching and learning pragmatics to strengthen our understanding of principles and practices in PLL and push the field to new and exciting directions in research and practice.
Plenary talks will be live. The rest of the presentations will be simulive (pre-recorded 20 minute presentation with live interaction by the presenters) or poster sessions (5-7 minute-pre-recorded presentation within Zoom breakout rooms for interaction). Abstract proposals are being accepted through March 1, 2022.
For more information visit: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/pll2022/
Source: NFLRC
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Title: Using Picture Books to Teach Multiculturalism and Challenge Bias
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From: http://blog.tesol.org/using-picture-books-to-teach-multiculturalism-and-challenge-bias/
This blog post offers ideas about how to choose and integrate picture books that center multiculturalism through telling stories from a multiplicity of perspectives and people. The author provides guiding questions to aid in book selection and addresses how to make book selections based on storyline, age appropriateness, and balancing styles, genres and perspectives. While this post is written with a TESOL audience in mind, the suggestions here would be useful for any language teacher using picture books as a learning tool, whether for literacy or cultural awareness.
Visit: http://blog.tesol.org/using-picture-books-to-teach-multiculturalism-and-challenge-bias/
Source: TESOL Blog, Naashia Mohamed
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Title: Practicing Awareness: Cues When a Conversation Goes Well
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By Madi Collins, CASLS Student Worker
This activity guides learners through identifying and practicing multimodal (verbal and nonverbal) conversation cues that are used in the target language to signal that a conversation is going well. This activity was designed for learners of all proficiency levels.
Learning outcomes:
Learners will be able to:
* Identify 3 verbal or nonverbal cues of conversational success in the target language
* Compare the use of these 3 cues in learners’ L1(s) versus in the target language
* Choose one cue to practice using in the target language
* Use the chosen cue in practice conversations
Mode(s): Interpersonal
Materials: Awareness: Signs Things Are Going Right video, place to display writing (board, poster paper or shared digital document)
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- Show learners the Awareness: Signs Things Are Going Right video.
- Gather learners into small groups. Ask each group to identify 3 verbal or non-verbal cues used in their L1s as signs that a conversation is going well. Then have them identify which of these cues is also used in the target language.
- Discuss as a larger group. Have a representative from each small group report on the three cues they identified. Do they think these same cues are used in the target language? What is similar or different in how they are used? Write down ideas that learners share on a board, piece of poster paper, or shared digital document so all can see.
- Ask learners to read through the brainstormed list of cues. Ask them to choose one that they would like to focus on in a practice conversation with a partner. Learners should keep their chosen cue a secret.
- Divide learners into pairs. Ask pairs to come up with a conversation prompt based on recent or past class topics, or assign a conversation prompt if needed.
- Then, have learners hold a conversation in pairs based on the prompt. Each learner will use their secret chosen cue.
- Once learners have held their conversation, ask them to guess which cue their partner used. Partners confirm whether the guess is correct, and if not, explain which cue they used and how they were using it in context.
- Discuss with the whole group. Were learners able to accurately identify the cue their partner chose? How did they know which cue it was? Was the cue clear and easy to identify? Why or why not?
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Modifications: The brainstorming and discussion steps, as well as the pair conversation can be done in either the L1 or the target language, depending on learner proficiency level or preference.
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Title: InterCom: February 21, 2022
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Join us this week as we continue exploring one particular aspect of pragmatics: awareness, or the ability to analyze someone’s reaction and adjust your language choices accordingly. This week we take a look at cues that can signal when an interaction might not be going well.
Thank you to CASLS Student Intern, Isabella Walters, for her role in the creation of this week’s video. Thank you to CASLS Graduate Intern, Anna Krinitsyna, for her role in the creation of this week’s activity.
There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:
- Join our InterCom Live! session. We connect on Facebook every Monday at 11:00 am Pacific. To join us, open CASLS's Facebook page at the designated time. Can't make it? The InterCom Live! events are always recorded, and you can find them on our Facebook page.
- Check out the Activity of the Week! This activity guides learners through recognizing and using verbal and non verbal cues that might signal a conflict or disagreement in a target language conversation.
- Check out this previous InterCom activity for ideas on how to create conversation simulations that learners can use to practice pragmatic competence for a chosen language function.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
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Title: Celebrating Afro-Latinos with Allison Perryman of The Cultural Classroom
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This blog post is a curation of videos and resources for the Spanish language classroom about Afro-Latino experiences and culture. These resources were made and curated by Allison Perryman, and include her own YouTube videos as well as links to research projects and musical resources. This resource would be suited to Spanish teachers looking to build lessons and activities around Afro-Latino stories, culture and music.
Source: Srta Spanish
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