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Traching Grammar
- Kahoot
- Google Docs
- Wordreference
- Corpora
Teaching Speaking
- Flipgrid
- Mango
- ## My language Exchange
Teaching Listening
BBC
- YABLA
- INNOVATIVE LANGUAGE
- POCOYO
- LYRICS TRAINING
: Some basic drills (but not too much!) on grammatical structures are necessary. After you
introduce a grammatical structure, it is a good idea to allow students practice the grammar structure before
moving to applying the grammar knowledge in communicative tasks. To make the drill practice interactive
and engaging and customized to fit your own learners’ needs, foreign language teachers have been using
Kahoot to create their grammar exercises. The alternative tools for interactive game-based assessment
includes Socrative and Quizizz.
Kahoot
long been seen as one of the most
powerful tools for student collaboration. By using google docs, you can encourage students to engage in pair
editing one another’s grammar errors and use the chat window on google doc to have silent conversations
on how to correct the grammar mistakes. In order for the pair editing to work, teachers need to monitor the
process closely and offer clear guidance and criteria to scaffold the process. Tell students what they should
be looking for during pair editing and perhaps color code the types of errors (spelling, punctuation, word
choice, or grammar). The following lesson plan offers great ideas on how to structure the
process: https://edtechbooks.org/-fC Additionally, if you have your students blogging on Wordpress, you can
encourage students to download the Poetica plugin (https://edtechbooks.org/-AX) to effectively engage in
peer editing on Wordpress.
Google Docs
: Anyone learning a foreign language needs to know this website. This is one of the
most powerful and essential referencing tools for learning a foreign language. They offer dictionaries in 18
languages. With each word, they offer definition, pronunciation audio, phonetic symbol and the compound
Wordreference
is another critical and powerful tool for improving students’ lexical and syntactic
understanding. Through corpora, students are able to see how a word is used in authentic communicative
contexts and how the word should be placed in a sentence. Many studies have pointed out The use of corpora
Usually, a corpus database would not be as intuitive as using Google search engine, so the language
instructors really need to know how to navigate through the database and teach students how to use it, too.
The attached link offer a list of corpora in various languages. If the language you are teaching is not listed,
the most efficient way to find the corpus database you need is probably by googling “corpos+your target
language”.
Corpora
The following two links offers ideas for teaching grammar in the
foreign language classroom as well as a learning module for grammar teaching methods.
Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Grammar - https://edtechbooks.org/-qz
16 Tips for Effective Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom
- https://edtechbooks.org/-HX
Teacher Learning Resources
If you work with advanced language learners, ___ offers news
articles, videos and audios in various languages. This is a great place for finding authentic resources for
listening and reading practice.
BBC
offers authentic videos for improving listening in six languages: Chinese, Italian,
Spanish, French, German and English. They have videos for all levels of language learners and the teacher
Yabla
offers authentic videos for improving listening in six languages: Chinese, Italian,
Spanish, French, German and English. They have videos for all levels of language learners and the teacher
Innovative Language
If you work with young kids, ____ offers cartoon videos for educational purposes in 6
languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Russian. They are great materials for
delivering meaningful and authentic content-based language lessons for students of young age
Pocoyo
Who doesn’t love music? Language instructors have been using songs as a way
for training language learners’ listening comprehension. Lyrics Training provides music videos for over 10
languages. What’s even more incredible about this website is that, with each music video, they embed fill-inblank exercise with which you can adjust the difficulty level based on the learner’s language proficiency.
Lyric Training
is a great way to ignite student discussions. Basically, a teacher creates a grid with
a central discussion question or task. Then, students respond to the prompt by interacting with one another
in the form similar to making video diary but in a collaborative and safe social community. Teachers can use
Flipgrid to foster cross-classroom and cross-cultural conversations in a safe and monitored environment.
Through talking to a camera, it also encourages students who are shy and less confident to speak in class
to have a voice and be heard in an authentic community.
Flipgrid
offers language lessons in a great variety of languages
as well. This website situates language learning in conversational contexts. With each language lesson, they list out the conversation goals and grammar goals. This website can be a great supplementary activity for
students to practice and enhance their conversational skills.
Mango
One of the best way to practice speaking a
foreign language is through language exchange. My Language Exchange is an effective platform for finding
a language exchange partner to practice speaking. They also offer lesson plans that you can follow to
structure the language exchange sessions. Alternative platforms for finding a language partner includes
Mixxer (https://edtechbooks.org/-FRf), Speaky and Easy Language Exchange (https://edtechbooks.org/-Wq).
However, like any other social networking platforms, you need to be very careful about giving out your
personal information and making friends with people online
My Language Exchange
It goes without saying that video conferencing tools are game changers
for foreign language learning. Foreign languages teachers are now using video conferencing tools to connect
their students to the world. Combining with platforms for searching partner classrooms, video conferencing
tools have allowed foreign language instructors to incorporate authentic and collaborative communication
tasks in their teaching. The tools are usually fairly easy to operate. The challenging part for incorporating
telecollaboration activities is the activity design, logistics and classroom management. The following blog
post will give you some inspirations on how to design and implement such type of activity
(https://edtechbooks.org/-yxX). The following are three free tools for video conferencing:
Video Conferencing Room
Video Conferencing Room
Skype
Zoom
Google Hangout
Using video conferencing tools allows students to practice
communications in the interpersonal mode (see ACTFL’s World-Readiness Standards). On the other hand,
having students make videos or audio recordings allows them to practice communications in the
presentational mode through multimodal and creative ways. Making videos or audio recordings allow
students to making meaning through storytelling. Through the storytelling process, teachers can also help
student develop oral fluency and pronunciation accuracy. Below is a list of popular tools used by teachers.
Video and audio recording tools
Video and Recording Tools
iMovie
- Biteable
- Shadow Puppet
- Sock Puppets
- Tontastic 3D
- Voice Memos
