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TitleIngress Activities: Exploring African Diaspora in Latino Communities
SourceCASLS Activity of the Week
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The following two activities were originally created for Games2Teach, a website resource to help instructors and learners interested in the benefits that games can offer for language learning. Two levels of the activity were designed: Novice and Advanced.

The purpose of the novice activity is to expose learners to the African diaspora of the Spanish-speaking communities in their own towns. In order to engage in this exploration, novice learners of the language will search for items with African origins that are used in Spanish-speaking communities. Their goal in searching for these items is to plan for an authentic Afro-Latino party through the creation of lists of necessities for the party. The categories are food, decorations (art), entertainment, and dress.

The purpose of the advanced activity is to enable learners to recognize the influence of African diaspora in local Latino communities and to raise awareness of said diaspora through the creation of a project, ideally with an augmented reality tool. This activity will require learners to engage in authentic conversations in the target language with their fellow classmates and members of a local Latino community. It is designed to take place over several days in class.

To see the novice activity, click here. To see the advanced activity, click here.

Publishdate2017-04-17 02:15:03