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Title: InterCom: January 30, 2023
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Join us as we continue exploring Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), or language learning tailored to the specific needs of a workplace or educational environment. This week we will tackle goal setting and accountability, focusing specifically on how to create SMARTER goals.
Thank you to Madi Collins, CASLS Graduate Student Worker, for her work on our video and Activity of the Week!
There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:
- Connect with us socially! Help us keep providing free content by subscribing to our YouTube channel to get first access to the language learning videos we release. Also, join us for a weekly InterCom Live session on Facebook.
- Check out the Activity of the Week! In this activity, learners reflect on the goals they have set in the past and write their own SMARTER goal to support their current learning.
- If you don’t already follow us on social media, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week!
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Title: Setting SMARTER Goals!
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This activity was designed to support all language learners in the creation of specific, measurable goals to which they can be held accountable. Though perfect for any classroom, this activity would be particularly useful for Facilitated Interdependent Language Learning contexts or other language self-study contexts. As such, instructions in this activity are written with the learner as the targeted audience.
Learning outcomes:
Learners will be able to:
- Write one or more SMARTER goals
- Self-monitor progress in working towards those goals
Mode(s): Varies depending on learner choice of goal
Materials: Goal Setting and Accountability video, Goal Tracker worksheet, scratch paper or a digital device for writing, drawing, etc., sticky notes
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- Think about a goal that you have set for yourself in the past. This goal could be academic, but it could also relate to any other part of your life. Reflect on how well you were able to achieve this goal – were you successful? Why or why not?
- Next, reflect on the process of working towards this goal. What made your goal easy or difficult to achieve? What parts of the process were challenging or easy for you? Why? Keep your thoughts from these first two steps in mind as you continue this activity.
- Watch the Goal Setting and Accountability video. Take a minute to think about the main points you remember from the video. You might consider…
- Effective goals should be specific and measurable. You should know what it looks like once you’ve reached your goal.
- Setting and achieving goals is a process.
- Goals are dynamic and can be revised at any point.
- Now, think about a language goal that you have for yourself. What do you want to be able to do? Picture how reaching this goal might impact your communication in the target language. Write down a few key words to describe these pictured outcomes or draw a picture digitally or on a piece of paper.
- Write your goal down on the Goal Tracker worksheet.
- Then, think through your goal according to the SMARTER model, filling in the letters S, M, A, R, T, E, and R on the worksheet. Use these guidelines as you work:
- Specific: What do you want to be able to do and in what context?
- Measureable: How will you measure success?
- Attainable: Is this goal realistic for your needs, context and timeframe?
- Relevant: Is this goal important to you and to what you want to be able to do with language?
- Time-bound: How long do you want to spend on this goal? How frequently will you work on it?
- Evaluation: Consistently check in on your goals! Are you making progress towards what you wanted to do? Is it still attainable at this moment?
- Reflection: Edit and readjust your goals as necessary! What went well, and what would you change? Would a different approach or timeline work better?
- Now, rewrite your goal at the bottom of the worksheet, incorporating each SMARTER element.
- To help you keep track of your progress towards your goal, write it down on a sticky note, and put it in a spot designated for goals (e.g., a wall, your mirror) that are in progress, or create a digital document to track your progress. Make sure this is a spot that you will see often.
- Keep track of your progress on this goal within your chosen timeline, and evaluate if you have been able to achieve it as planned. If you have not achieved it as written, or need to adjust your expectations, no problem. Just revise it as needed! Reflect on your progress and write down these reflections in the R section of the handout as you go.
- Once you feel as though you have reached your goal, celebrate it! Move your sticky note to a “completed goals” section of your space or document. Remember to reflect on each of your goals once you feel like they have been achieved noting what went well, and what you would change if working on a similar goal in the future.
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Title: Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel!
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Title: New Webinar Series - Join Live or Watch On-Demand!
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Join CASLS and Education Perfect for a series of webinars, available to watch live or on-demand!
This webinar series will explore a number of different topics relating to best practices in the World Languages classroom. The team from CASLS will introduce the pedagogy and give lots of practical examples, and the team from Education Perfect will illustrate how the LinguaFolio and Education Perfect platforms can support these practices.
The topics covered in the series will be:
January 11th: Best Practices for Goal Setting
January 18th: Best Practices for Strategic Instruction
January 25th: Best Practices for Evidence Use
February 1st: Best Practices for Reflection and Self Evaluation
All sessions will be held at 3:30pm Eastern Time.
All webinars will be available to watch either live or on-demand. Please register above to gain access to both the recordings and live webinars.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Title: Vietnamese Zodiac – Introducing the 12 Animals of the Lunar Calendar
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From: https://morevietnamese.com/vietnamese-zodiac-animals/
Happy Lunar New Year! Read this resource to learn about the Vietnamese Zodiac and its relationship to the New Year. Additionally, you will find information related to social norms in Vietnamese regarding how one addresses other people according to age differences. This resource would be useful for novice learners exploring Lunar New Year customs, as well as for any learner interested in how interpersonal factors related to power and social distance, like age and relationship, impact what one says and how one interacts with others.
Visit: https://morevietnamese.com/vietnamese-zodiac-animals/
Source: More Vietnamese
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Title: New Japanese Learning Resources: Winter 2022
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From: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-learning-resources-winter-2022/
This blog post showcases 9 different resources from a wide variety of online media, including a Japanese drama, YouTube channels, a website purely for learning expressions, a partner exchange app, and more. Learners who are engaged in self-directed study, as well as teachers looking for additional media to support curricular goals, will find these resources helpful.
Visit: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-learning-resources-winter-2022/
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Title: Why French People Never Hug
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From: https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/french-hug
This blog post is a lesson about the cultural norms of French greetings and perceptions around touch in social situations. With a transcript of the video in both French and English, as well as a vocabulary review section, this resource would be most useful to learners engaging in the analysis of cultural practices in their own and other cultures.
Visit: https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/french-hug
Source: Comme Une Française
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Title: Scaffolding Learning Through Primary Language Support: 6 Effective Strategies
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From: http://blog.tesol.org/scaffolding-learning-through-primary-language-support-6-effective-strategies/
This blog post explains how learners’ primary/home languages can be used to support proficiency development in an L2. This asset-based approach is an effective way to enhance learner comprehension, support literacy development, and cater to learners' affective needs. It would be a useful resource for teachers working with Novice multilingual populations. It is also useful for educators thinking through when and how to utilize the L1 in their own instructional practices.
Visit: http://blog.tesol.org/scaffolding-learning-through-primary-language-support-6-effective-strategies/
Source: TESOL Blog, Naashia Mohamed
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Title: Goal Setting and Student Acheivement: A Longitudinal Study
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Read research about goal setting!
From: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=teachlearnfacpub
Abstract: The connection between goals and student motivation has been widely investigated in the research literature, but the relationship of goal setting and student achievement at the classroom level has remained largely unexplored. This article reports the findings of a 5-year quasi-experimental study examining goal setting and student achievement in the high school Spanish language classroom. The implementation of LinguaFolio, a portfolio that focuses on student self-assessment, goal setting, and collection of evidence of language achievement, was introduced into 23 high schools with a total of 1,273 students. By using a hierarchical linear model, researchers were able to analyze the relationship between goal setting and student achievement across time at both the individual student and teacher levels. A correlational analysis of the goal-setting process and language proficiency scores reveals a statistically significant relationship between the goal-setting process and language achievement (p < .01).
Visit: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1158&context=teachlearnfacpub
Source: Moeller, Thieler, & Wu; The Modern Language Journal (2012)
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Title: InterCom: February 6, 2023
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Happy February! This month we will focus on pragmatics in the workplace. In other words, we will consider the intercultural and interpersonal factors that affect how one communicates and interprets meaning in various workplace contexts.
Today’s highlighted videos (IPIC Overview and IPIC in Practice) and Activity of the Week provide an introduction to pragmatics through the Intercultural, Pragmatic, Interactional Competence model (IPIC).
There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:
- Connect with us socially! Help us keep providing free content by subscribing to our YouTube channel to get first access to the language learning videos we release. Also, join us for a weekly InterCom Live session on Facebook.
- Check out the Activity of the Week! In this activity, learners will explore how to apply the IPIC model to a specific situation or type of communication they encounter in their workplace.
- Check out this article for more information on the role of intercultural communication in business settings.
- If you don’t already follow us on social media, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube!
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week!
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