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Title: InterCom: September 26, 2022
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Join us this week as we conclude our series on tips for handling ambiguity when communicating in the target language. This week, we explore how learners can harness their strengths to respond to language learning and communication challenges.
Thank you to Cameron Teubner-Keller, for his role in the creation of this week’s video.
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 video and Activity of the Week! In the activity, learners will reflect on their communicative strengths and set goals for utilizing those strengths in the future.
- Check out this resource for more information about understanding one’s strengths when learning.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
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Title: The Best Japanese Language Learning Podcasts for Intermediate Learners
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From: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-language-learning-podcasts-for-intermediate-learners/
This blog post discusses the features of helpful podcasts that are useful for intermediate Japanese speakers. Tofugu provides an overview of what might be beneficial in a podcast for intermediate speakers, and what to look for when doing your own podcast search. The authors also provided links to and descriptions of podcasts that they find to be helpful. Tofugu also provides reviews for each podcast listed, and discusses what each podcast may be specifically helpful for. While this post primarily focuses on intermediate level learners, some of the podcasts may also be helpful to other levels of Japanese learners and the post provides helpful information regarding general podcast searches. This resource would be useful to any level of Japanese learner, but the intermediate level focus within this resource makes it especially useful for those learners.
Visit: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-language-learning-podcasts-for-intermediate-learners/
Source: Tofugu
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Title: How the Ojibwe Language Survived the Pandemic
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From: https://subtitlepod.com/how-the-ojibwe-language-survived-the-pandemic/
This podcast episode discusses stories of contemporary community Ojibwe language use and education, centering around how education and involvement in one community changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the elders and the multi-generational interactions central to the survival of the Ojibwe language, and how one Ojibwe-speaking community moved language learning into member’s homes during the pandemic to keep learning going. This resource would be useful for those looking for oral history about Ojibwe language education, or online and hybrid learning and teaching strategies relevant to language revitalization.
Visit: https://subtitlepod.com/how-the-ojibwe-language-survived-the-pandemic/
Source: Subtitle Podcast
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Title: How To Master The Basics Of Paraguayan Spanish
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From: https://storylearning.com/learn/spanish/spanish-tips/paraguayan-spanish
This article provides tips for learning Paraguayan Spanish. The author explores the influence that native languages such as Guarani and Jopara have had on the Paraguayan Spanish spoken today, including a list of 10 slang words and phrases, many of which originate from these native languages. This resource would be useful for learners or educators looking for information about South American Spanish varieties, and the cultural influences that shaped those varieties.
Visit: https://storylearning.com/learn/spanish/spanish-tips/paraguayan-spanish
Source: Story Learning
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Title: Try Using Vocabulary Lists to Help Your Students Conduct Better Searches
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From: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/09/try-using-vocabulary-lists-to-help-your.html
Drawing on research about the ways experts use digital searches to find the information they need, this blog post offers suggestions for the use of domain-specific vocabulary lists to help second language learners become more adept at using digital tools in the target language. This post offers practical examples accompanied by relevant research supporting their creation, and would be useful for intermediate and advanced learners.
Visit: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/09/try-using-vocabulary-lists-to-help-your.html
Source: Free Technology for Teachers
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Title: Affecting Language Policy: Start With Your Language Orientation
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From: http://blog.tesol.org/affecting-language-policy-start-with-your-language-orientation/
This blog post encourages reflection about how group and institutional language orientations affect how languages are taught, how learners are treated, and how educational policy is created and enacted. The post discusses how the framing of three distinct language orientations (language as problem, language as right, and language as resource) affect educational policies, and calls teachers to take an active role in shaping these policies in their own workspaces. While of interest to any teacher, this resource would be especially useful for teachers in the process of examining, updating or changing educational policy around language learning in their school or institution.
Visit: http://blog.tesol.org/affecting-language-policy-start-with-your-language-orientation/
Source: TESOL Blog, Naashia Mohamed
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Title: InterCom: October 3, 2022
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Hello, and happy October! As the seasons change, we often find ourselves reflecting about where we have been and where we’d like to be. The result of that reflection this month is the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge!
For this challenge, we are revisiting five of our greatest hits on YouTube! Each week, we will identify the greatest hit as well as other related videos. Those videos and their embedded activities will appear on a CASLS bingo-style card. Can you get five in a row?
Here are the topics for each week:
- October 3 - Why Learn a Language?
- October 10 - What is Human Communication (basic language learning skills)?
- October 17 - What is Intercultural Communication?
- October 24 - What is Multimodal Communication?
- October 31 - What is Pragmatics?
Play along on the Greatest Hits Bingo card, and complete any five activities in a row (horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal) to win! Email us a copy of your completed card at info@uoregon.edu with “Greatest Hits Challenge” in the subject line, and we will mail you a prize! Educators, if you want to play along with your classes, feel free to email us when your learners have completed their cards!
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
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Title: Greatest Hits Challenge - Week One
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Welcome to week one of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge! Download your Greatest Hits Bingo card and play along.
This week’s Greatest Hit video is Why Learn a Language? From gaining problem-solving skills, to increasing creativity and flexibility, there are so many reasons to learn a language!
Here’s how to play:
- First, watch this week’s Greatest Hits video.
- Then take a minute to reflect - what are your reasons to learn a language? Are your reasons internally- or externally-motivated? Are they the same reasons now as they were when you started learning, or have they changed over time?
- Next, pull out your Bingo card and dive in to this week’s activities. Pick a video to watch; each one will outline an activity you can do in the language you are learning. Then attempt the activity it describes. You can complete one or complete all five - it’s up to you!
This week, choose from these videos:
1. Draw Your Goal
2. Vision Board
3. Write a SMART Goal
4. Word of the Day Calendar
5. Make a Meme
- Remember to mark off the activities you complete on your Bingo card once you have finished them.
- Complete any five activities in a row (horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal) to win!
- When your card is completed, email us a copy of it info@uoregon.edu with “Greatest Hits Challenge” in the subject line, and we will mail you a prize!
Note: Educators, are you looking for a a pre-made acitivity to go along this week's Bingo card videos? Find prewritten activities here: Draw Your Goal, Make a Vision Board, Make a Word of the Day Calendar, Make a Meme
Source: CASLS
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Title: InterCom: October 10, 2022
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Join us this week for our second week of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge! For week two, we will dive into understanding human communication and exploring related videos and activities.
Here are the topics for each week:
- October 3 - Why Learn a Language?
- October 10 - What is Human Communication?
- October 17 - What is Intercultural Communication?
- October 24 - What is Multimodal Communication?
- October 31 - What is Pragmatics?
Play along on the Greatest Hits Bingo card and complete any five activities in a row (horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal) to win! Email us a copy of your completed card at info@uoregon.edu with “Greatest Hits Challenge” in the subject line, and we will mail you a prize! Educators, if you want to play along with your classes, feel free to email us when your learners have completed their cards!
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Greatest Hits Challenge - Week Two
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Welcome to week two of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge! Download your Greatest Hits Bingo card and play along.
This week’s Greatest Hits video is What is Human Communication? While all living beings communicate with each other, how humans communicate is distinct for a variety of reasons! Watch the video to discover eight qualities that differentiate human language from other types of communication.
Here’s how to play:
- First, watch this week’s video.
- Then take a minute to think about the eight reasons that mark human communication as different from other types of communication (arbitrariness, displacement, duality, productivity, prevarication, reflexivity, discreteness, and creativity). Choose one of the eight reasons, and then think of, or jot down, a few examples of the types of information this reason allows you to communicate.
- Next, pull out your bingo card and explore this week’s activities. Complete one or complete all five - it’s up to you!
Choose from:
1. How to Use a Dictionary
2. Make a Word Map
3. Word Games
4. Connect Sounds and Written Language
5. Use Visuals to Help You Read
Remember, complete any five activities in a row (horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal) to win!
When your card is completed, email us a copy of it info@uoregon.edu with “Greatest Hits Challenge” in the subject line, and we will mail you a prize!
Note: Educators, are you looking for a pre-made activity to go along this week's Bingo card videos? Find selected activities here: Do I Need to Use a Dictionary?, Connecting Sounds to Written Language
Source: CASLS
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