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Title: 5 Tips to Boost Your Language Listening Skills
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From: https://www.gamesforlanguage.com/blog/post/2022-06-5-tips-to-boost-your-language-listening-skills
This blog post offers five strategies for building listening comprehension. These strategies include backwards buildup, write what you hear, listening games, watching films with subtitles, and listening to podcasts. Links to external resources are included related to French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English.
Visit: https://www.gamesforlanguage.com/blog/post/2022-06-5-tips-to-boost-your-language-listening-skills
Source: Games 4 Language, Ulrike Rettig
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Title: Technology Integration in Face-to-Face Instruction in the Post-2020 Pandemic Era: Continuing Innovative Teaching Practices
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From: https://fltmag.com/technology-integration-post-pandemic/
In this blog post, the authors explore various ways in which technological tools can be used in the face-to-face classroom. Drawing on experiences with virtual teaching, each of the projects highlight ways various learning projects were adapted from the online classroom to the face-to-face context. Specific examples and implementation ideas are given throughout. This post is especially useful for educators who work with intermediate and advanced language learners.
Visit: https://fltmag.com/technology-integration-post-pandemic/
Source: FTLMag, Sun Young Park and Kara Mac Donald
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Title: Speaking Playlist & 3-2-1 Bridge
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This week, we depart from our normal activity format to provide learners with the opportunity to explore a variety of speaking strategies. In this activity, learners will choose a speaking activity video from the CASLS Speaking Activities Playlist and reflect on their learning with 3-2-1 Bridge.
Learning outcomes:
Learners will be able to:
- Describe a new speaking strategy
- Reflect on the utility of the speaking strategy
Mode(s): Presentational, Interpersonal
Materials: CASLS Speaking Activities Playlist, device with internet access
- First, choose the video from the CASLS Speaking Activities Playlist you want to work with, but don’t watch it yet!
- Next, consider the title of the video. Based on your impressions of the title or on your previous knowledge of the related topic, write down:
- 3 words or ideas
- 2 questions
- 1 metaphor or simile
- Then, watch the video.
- After you have watched the video, think about what you now know about the topic. Then write down:
- 3 words or ideas
- 2 questions
- 1 metaphor or simile
- Finally, compare your 3-2-1 lists from before and after watching the video. Consider the following questions:
- Did the words or ideas you wrote down change? Which ones?
- Did you have the same or different questions about the topic each time? What about the metaphor or simile?
- Why do you think each of your 3-2-1 answers remained the same or changed?
- What can the changes (if any) tell you about the differences between what you knew before and what you know now?
Source: CASLS
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Title: InterCom: June 27, 2022
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Join us this week as we continue to gear up for summer learning. We will explore how to stay engaged with learning, how to practice goal setting, and how to keep using the target language all summer long.
Each week, we will highlight a curated playlist of learning activities from our YouTube channel. This week we focus on our Speaking Activities Playlist. In this playlist you will find activities like Small Talk: Building Knowledge, Practicing Pronunciation with Speech Recognition, 5 Steps for Reflecting After Speaking, and more!
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.
- Curious about how you learn about a particular aspect of speaking? Explore your learning process using 3-2-1 Bridge.
- Don’t have someone to practice your speaking skills with? Check out this blog post for tips on how to get started speaking, even without a conversation partner.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Reawakening Pentlatch
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From: https://vocalfriespod.com/2022/06/05/reawakening-pentlatch/
This podcast presents an interview with the Pentlatch Revitalization team. Pentlatch is a Coast Salish language from Vancouver Island. For learners interested in language documentation and revitalization this discussion offers unique insights into the process and practice of language revitalization. Given the complexity of the topic and discourse, the talk is appropriate for highschool students and older.
Visit: https://vocalfriespod.com/2022/06/05/reawakening-pentlatch/
Source: The Vocal Fries
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Title: Blooket: Game on, Students!
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From: https://fltmag.com/blooket-game-on/
Looking for a way to add more types of games to your classroom? Check out blooket.com. In this review article, the author summarizes key game features of the online platform Blooket (blooket.com) and suggests ways it might be useful for various levels of langauge learning. Useful for educators looking to add variety to the classroom or have students build their own games, Blooket offers twelve games types that can be shared and organized into sets of different types.
Visit: https://fltmag.com/blooket-game-on/
Source: FTLMag, Wenjing Huang
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Title: A Hint to Help Improve Comprehension and Appreciation of Japanese Literature
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The blog post shares the tips for learners of Japanese on how to appreciate and understand the perspectives of classical Japanese literature. In addition to reading the works themselves, the post suggests seeking out opinions and reviews of the works written on blogs or online bookstores. Reading these reviews along with the works of literature may help to contextualize the works not only in terms of larger cultural or artistic contexts, but also in terms of interpersonal or individual dynamics and concerns. This resource would be useful for teachers or learners looking to explore contemporary, non-academic perspectives on classical Japanese writing.
Source: Self Taught Japanese
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Title: Guatemalan Spanish: A Spanish Learner’s Guide To The Culture, Accent And Slang Of Guatemala
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From: https://storylearning.com/learn/spanish/spanish-tips/guatemalan-spanish
This blog post offers a great overview of the linguistic and cultural diversity in Guatemala. Not only does it explore the various indigenous languages in the country, but it also provides learners with an overview of dialectical nuances that differentiate Guatemalan Spanish from other varieties. Finally, it gives a nice overview of slang. This post would be great to use with learners from all levels as they explore and celebrate language variety in the Spanish-speaking world.
Visit: https://storylearning.com/learn/spanish/spanish-tips/guatemalan-spanish
Source: Storylearning
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Title: What are the Best Dictionaries for Arabic Dialects?
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From: https://arabic-for-nerds.com/what-are-the-best-dictionaries-for-arabic-dialects/
This blog post contains a list of digital dictionary resources for a wide variety of Arabic dialects, including Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Tunisian and Moroccan Arabic. It includes both single-dialect dictionaries as well as dictionaries that cover multiple dialects. These digital dictionaries can help learners expand their knowledge of vocabulary beyond standard Arabic, and compare regional and dialectical differences in word use and colloquial phrasing. It would be a useful resource for teachers and learners looking to emphasize or explore a specific Arabic dialect or differences between dialects.
Visit: https://arabic-for-nerds.com/what-are-the-best-dictionaries-for-arabic-dialects/
Source: Arabic for Nerds, Gerald Drissner
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Title: French Language History: A Curious Learner’s Guide
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From: https://storylearning.com/learn/french/french-tips/french-language-history
This blog post offers a brief overview of the history of French, tracing its evolution from Latin to French in the present day. It outlines French’s latinate origins, as well as Gaulish and Germanic influences, and their contributions to both standardized modern French spoken in France and to the varieties of French spoken in Canada, some African countries, and throughout the world. This resource would be helpful for teachers and learners of French interested in language change over time, as well as the history of French expansion and colonization and its effects on historical language spread and current language use.
Visit: https://storylearning.com/learn/french/french-tips/french-language-history
Source: Storylearning
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