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Title: Le Registre Satirique
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From: https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/litterature/registre-satirique
This French blog post discusses le registre satirique, the satirical register, in French writing. It covers the themes used in satire, how satire is used in the context of a piece of writing, and gives a list of examples of satirical writing by Molière and Montesquieu. This resource would be useful to French teachers looking for a short reference guide about using satire in writing. It would also be useful for Intermediate and Advanced French learners studying literary tools and writing styles.
Visit: https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/litterature/registre-satirique
Source: La Langue Française
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Title: Free Verse Poems for Every Learner in the Room
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From: https://juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/free-verse-poems-for-every-learner-in-the-room/
In this blog post, the author describes how to successfully build poetry writing lessons for all levels of learners using the free verse poem as a model. Free verse poems do not follow any particular pattern, meter, or rhyme scheme. As a result, they provide a unique flexibility to learners, whether they love or despise writing and reading poetry. Additionally, the author describes how learners with different interests or thinking styles can adapt a free verse poem to suit their own needs.
Visit: https://juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/free-verse-poems-for-every-learner-in-the-room/
Source: La Prof Caféinée
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Title: InterCom: October 24, 2022
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Hello, and welcome to week four of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge!
For this challenge, we are revisiting five of our greatest hits on YouTube! Each week, we will identify one greatest hit and 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?
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. 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!
Source: CASLS
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Title: Greatest Hits Challenge - Week Four
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Welcome to week four of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge! It’s not too late to participate, so download your Greatest Hits Bingo card and play along!
This week’s Greatest Hits video is More than Words: Introduction to Multimodal Communication. Humans rely on a wide variety of auditory, visual, and cultural information to convey meaning, in addition to the words we use. These multiple ways, or modalities, of conveying information can include gestures, tone, rhythm, images, and much more. Viewing communication as multimodal opens up many more tools for creating and understanding meaning. Simply put, all the information one sees and hears can more context to the words used.
Here’s how to play:
First, watch this week’s video.
Then, choose one interaction in the target language to examine. This could be a conversation you had with a friend or acquaintance, a short passage from a book or textbook, a social media post, or even a meme. Look for multimodal information in this interaction using these guiding questions:
- What visual information do you see? Are there images or emoji?
- What auditory information do you hear? Is the speech fast or slow, loud or quiet? Is there laughter or other non-verbal sounds?
- What body language or gestural cues do you see? What expressions do people have on their faces? What movements or gestures do they make?
- What written information do you see? What do you understand? What do you need to investigate more?
- What cultural information do you notice? Is there anything you see, read, or hear that is specific to the cultural context of the interaction?
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:
- Play A Digital Game
- Use an App in the Target Language
- Make a Holiday Card
- Text with a Friend
- Post with Hashtags
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 with this week's Bingo card videos? Find selected activities here: Using Digital Games for Learning, Mobile Apps: Adapting Sentences in the Wild, Texting and Connecting: Developing Boss-level Messaging Skills, and Hashtags in Action.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Video: Introduction to Inductive and Deductive Reasoning (Includes Activity)
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This blog post features a very learner-friendly video about the distinction between deductive (broadly, general to specific) and inductive (broadly, specific to general) reasoning. In the video, examples of each type of reasoning are given. Then, learners are asked to categorize 10 statements based on the type of reasoning they exemplify. Though not created specifically for language teachers, language educators are encouraged to utilize videos like this to support learners in thinking about how they can reason through the target language. For example, what generalizations about social media posts can the learners make after observing 10 examples (inductive)? Or, after learning about a cultural lens related to a topic like family or beauty, what specific cultural products (e.g., print ads) can learners identify that espouse said lens?
Source: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
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Title: New HSK 1 Words in Sentences: 500 Chinese Sentences for Beginners
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From: https://mandarinhq.com/2022/10/new-hsk-1-sentences/
The HSK, or the Chinese Proficiency Test, is an international standardized Chinese language proficiency test for non-native speakers. This blog post presents a vocabulary list of 500 basic Chinese words used in the Level 1 HSK Test, including examples of how to use each word in a sentence. The words and their example sentences are given in Pinyin, Chinese, and English. Clearly, this post is a useful reference for learners studying for the HSK 1 Test. It is also useful for all learners seeking to improve their vocabulary acquisition and use.
Visit: https://mandarinhq.com/2022/10/new-hsk-1-sentences/
Source: Mandarin HQ, Angel Huang
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Title: Talking About Colonialism Matters
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From: https://juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/talking-about-colonialism-matters/
In this excellent blog post, a teacher of French provides examples of activities that support learners in building empathy and confronting the hard legacy of colonialism throughout the world with an open mind. The author suggests examining colonialism in the target language before engaging in cross-cultural comparison because doing so prepares learners to critique the countries from which they hail. The author also provides a brief overview of successful classroom activities that engage learners in thinking through the influence of colonialism in the Francophone countries.
Visit: https://juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2022/10/11/talking-about-colonialism-matters/
Source: La Prof Caféinée
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Title: Japanese word confusion: 入れる
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From: https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2022/09/12/japanese-word-confusion-%e5%85%a5%e3%82%8c%e3%82%8b/
This article discusses the uncommon, yet present, ambiguity in some Japanese verbs. The author highlights these ambiguities in service of supporting learners of Japanese. For example, the author showcases and example of how a verb in the potential form could be confused with the same verb conjugated in the passive form.
Visit: https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2022/09/12/japanese-word-confusion-%e5%85%a5%e3%82%8c%e3%82%8b/
Source: Self-Taught Japanese
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Title: National Hispanic Heritage Month 2022: PALABRA Archive Releases 50 New Streaming Recordings
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In honor Hispanic Heritage Month, which ended on October 15, the Hispanic Reading Room in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division (LAC&E) of the Library of Congress released 50 new digital streaming audio recordings in the PALABRA Archive. This archive is the Library’s treasure trove of recordings of 20th and 21st century Luso-Hispanic poets and writers reading from their works. This archive includes recorded authors from all over Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, the Caribbean, and other regions with Hispanic and Portuguese heritage populations. The newly-released recordings include bilingual (Spanish/English) and trilingual (Spanish/English and indigenous languages such as Niimiipuu and Mapuche) readings of poetry, essays, and other works. This resource, with its wide breadth of content, would be useful for learners or teachers of Spanish, Portuguese or Indigenous Central or South American languages interested in art, literature, and diaspora.
Source: Library of Congress
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Title: Greatest Hits Challenge - Week Five
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Welcome to week five, the final week of the CASLS Greatest Hits Challenge! Whether you’ve been playing along since week one or are just starting this week, grab your Greatest Hits Bingo card and play along!
This week’s Greatest Hits video is What is Pragmatics?: Intercultural Pragmatic Interactional Competence Overview. Pragmatics is the study of language and the way that we interpret and communicate meaning. Studying pragmatics in a second language, for example, can include exploring strategies for delivering a sincere apology or request, exploring how social status (power) or social distance (closeness) influences language choices, discovering how to signal when one is ending a conversation, and much more! Studying pragmatics in your L2 can help you both understand more about the cultures and places where the target language is spoken and ensure you communicate the meaning you intend.
Here’s how to play:
First, watch this week’s video.
Then, reflect on some similarities and differences in the ways one typically communicates meaning in your L1 versus in the language you are studying. In particular, think about:
- What strategies (e.g., including explanations) for apologizing or requesting do I use in my L1 that I may not use in my L2? Do I know what strategies are common in my L2?
- How collective is my L2 compared to my L1? Do I understand politeness?
- How do I talk, sign or write to someone who is in a position of power in each language (e.g. a teacher, a boss, etc.)? Is it different from how I would interact with a peer, friend, or classmate?
- Does the closeness of a relationship affect how I interact with others? Would I interact differently with someone I am close to versus with someone I do not know well?
- Does the size or importance of the situation affect how I communicate in either language? Is what I say, sign, write, or do different in a situation of minor importance versus one of great importance?
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. Politeness
2. Power
3. Social Distance
4. Imposition
5. Intercultural Pragmatic Interactional Competence Measure (IPIC) in Practice
Remember, complete any five activities in a row (horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal) to win! Also, if you find these videos to be beneficial, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel!
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 with this week's Bingo card videos? Find selected activities here: Politeness Orientation Predictogram, Power and Communication, Social Distance and Textbooks, Rank of Imposition, and Getting Started with IPIC.
Source: CASLS
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