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Teacher Education for Languages with Technology / Formation des enseignants de langue avec les TICE
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This could be nice for language teacher training: have trainees make and request recordings and evaluate the outcomes.
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Aaron Myers blogs about learning languages on the Every Day Language Learning, and has this blogroll offering a variety of perspectives on the same topic.
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Send your students to read how other people are tackling the task of learning a new language. 
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April 26, 3:27 AM
Interesting blogs to look at for teacher training for teaching foreign languages Delete the scoop?
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One way of encouraging effective interaction for learning is by using information gap activities.
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Example of a high school EFL CLIL class in Germany, where pupils are grouped in one of five sub-topics, then re-grouped to share their expertise using a diagram to map information and a record answers to "why" and "how" questions. Neat example of creating a need to exchange information and a structure in which to record it. Delete the scoop?
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Peer ReviewedTitle: The Assumption of Participation in Small Group Work: An Investigation of L2 Teachers’ and Learners’ Expectations Journal Issue: Issues in Applied Linguistics, 16(2) Author: Ewald, Jennifer, Saint Joseph’s University Publication Date: 2008 Publication Info: Issues in Applied Linguistics, Department of Applied Linguistics, UC Los Angeles Permalink: http://escholarship.ucop.edu/uc/item/42j8n011 Via Phil Chappell
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An interesting study of teacher and learner views of group work, showing that learners have views about how they like to work, and with whom, which may be at odds with teacher beliefs about what is best for L2 learning. Delete the scoop?
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Aaron G Myers presents an annotated list of posts by language learning bloggers which he found inspirational in 2012.
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December 19, 2012 10:31 AM
During a week of phonetics orals for EFL students at my university, it's nice to see more ideas to help learners get out there and make progress ...
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A nice overview page on 4 theories of learning.
[The instructional design wiki was created by the summer 2011 class of CI484 at University of Illinois-Urbana as part of the Curriculum, Technology and Educational Reform (CTER) Master's program]
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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A PDF of 142 pages with activities for learner-centred ESL teaching. Beautifully presented and designed to be clear and easy-to-use for busy teachers, these activities look well-suited to young adult intermediate learners, but might be adaptable for other contexts.
Also available here http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/teach-learn.
The author David Deubelbeiss teaches ESL in Canada and runs EFL 2.0 Classoom, an extremely rich TEFL website http://community.eflclassroom.com/index.php
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September 3, 2012 9:48 AM
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Thanks for sharing! Updated version is located here. - http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/teach-learn
Thanks for sharing! Updated version is located here. - http://community.eflclassroom.com/page/teach-learn
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September 3, 2012 9:58 AM
Dang! I can't change the link without making a new post, so I've just added it above. Your site is great - hope you don't mind the deeper links - I want to direct teachers to specific parts of your really rich collection, but I'm guessing they'll explore on their own anyway :-)
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One or two slides from our presentation on our European project iTILT (interactive Technologies in Language Teaching http://itilt.eu) co-authored with project partners Gary Beauchamp and Emily Hillier and delivered on the final day of the EuroCALL conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.
A write-up will appear in the conference proceedings scheduled for December 2012, just around the time our video clips of language teaching with the interactive whiteboard go live.
After piloting at the start of the academic year, the site will be opened for free public access to our bank of some 200 classroom illustrations in different languages, contexts, and proficiency levels, allowing language teachers and trainers to see the IWB in use and read associated comments by teachers and learners, as well as download lesson plans and materials.
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Which languages are hardest for English speakers to learn? Why? How long will it take you to learn?
Which languages are hardest for English speakers to learn? Why? How long will it take you to learn?
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" Empowering future language learners: Formal and informal language learning through social media" Webinar recording available.
As the intensive use of new mobile technologies and social media constantly changes the landscape of language education, this webinar addresses challenges and controversies concerning the use of social media for language learning in formal and informal contexts.
- Are the borders between formal and informal language learning disappearing due to the increasing use of social media in formal education?
- How is the use of ICT and social media shaping new ways of language learning in formal and informal education contexts?
- How do language teachers cope with the incorporation of ICT in their classrooms?
- Do they receive enough training on how to innovate pedagogy through technology?
- Does the predominance of the English language in social media have a negative impact on the adoption of social media in teaching languages other than English?
Invited speakers:
Pierre-Antoine Ullmo, P.A.U. Education, Barcelona, Spain
Stylianos Mystakidis, University of Patras, Greece
Pere Arcas, Catalan TV, Barcelona, Spain
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Nik Peachey has found an online tool for annotating webpages, and shows how this can be used for teachers' own development of digital skills, and for direct use with language learners.
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Elena Qureshi (University of Windor, 2004) sketches some different views of the learning in different theories of (language) learning, from behaviourist through cognitivist to constructivist models.
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Aaron G Myers says: "I would like to share ten free resources that I have used or newly discovered that will help you learn nearly any language that you wish to learn. I don’t see any of these as a silver bullet or as capable in and of themselves in taking you to fluency in your target language. I don’t really believe in silver bullets! They can all be a part of building an overall personal language learning program that will lead to success."
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Places to send your learners for more practice
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March 29, 4:55 AM
Nice selection, including places to interact with native speakers as well as lists of resources.
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April 19, 12:25 AM
A nice selection of 10 free online resources that cover a vast range of languages in total. The programmes include the ability to chat with native speakers, submit your work to be checked by native speakers, online language games, flashcards, and more!
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Grâce à fleex, apprenez l’anglais avec les vidéos que vous aimez. A partir des séries TV et films stockés sur votre disque dur, fleex construit à la volée une vraie expérience éducative pour vous permettre d'améliorer votre pratique de la langue. A court d'idées ? Choisissez dans notre catalogue l’une des 1000+ vidéos que nous avons sélectionnées pour vous !
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Videos for French learners of English.
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January 18, 11:11 AM
Reportage ici
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24361-fleex-apprendre-l-anglais-grace-aux-series-tv.html
avec 3 kilomètres de commentaires - l'apprentissage de l'anglais par les films en VO, sous-titrés, doublés, ça suscite de vives émotions ...
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Guest Post by Aaron Knight: Aaron Knight is the creator of Year of English, a free daily email course for English learners who want to become fluent in
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Advice for learners.
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Knight says: "It takes hundreds of hours to become fluent in a foreign language" and concludes that an "addiction" to target language activities is a viable alternative to living in the target culture. He has some good language learning strategies in this short post.
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Worldwide ranking of the Top 100 Language Lovers 2012 including a short blog description and a link to every language lover.
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"Free online foreign language lessons"
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Suspicious as usual, I checked out this site. Not clear who is behind it, but it does seem to be completely free and the sound etc works fine. I checked English for French beginners (leçon de Anglaise (sic)) - decontextualised behaviourist approach with exercises for listening and repeating, matching phrases with their translation equivalents, and chances to test yourself. Not my first choice for learning a language, but it may suit some.
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A little over a year ago I wrote a postabout the flipped classroom, why I loved it. When I recently re-read the post, I didn’t disagree with anything I’d said. Yet my brief love affair with the flip has ended. It simply didn’t produce the tranformative learning experience I knew I wanted for my students .
Via Nik Peachey, Mark Pegrum
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Vanessa Vaile of Blogging English has turned up over a thousand ESL links on the bookmarking site Delicious. You can filter according to your interest - listening, grammar, etc.
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"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., psychologist and author of the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, describes what schools and parents can do to promote optimal learning experiences."
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What about teaching and learning foreign languages? Can teachers create contexts for flow in the language classroom? What would flow look like for language learners? Would they learn better?
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What about teaching and learning foreign languages? Can teachers create contexts for flow in the language classroom? What would flow look like for language learners? Would they learn better?
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Sharing linguistic and cultural content for language learning via mobile phones.
"The SIMOLA project develops a crowd-sourced information system for situated language learning. The system will allow language learners in a target country to collect, annotate and share language- and culture-related content using their mobile phones and suitable web interfaces."
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ePortfolios for teachers or learners?
Robin Good: Pathbrite is a new web service which allows you to collect, bring together and layout any kind of media content (from video clips, to images and text) to create a visually compelling personal portfolio of skills and experiences.
In fact, Pathbrite can be used for any number of purposes that involve creating a good looking web presence in which one can easily bring together different types of content to create a "collection".
A music band video portfolio, a photographer book and list of achievements, a sport master illustrated hall of fame.
From the official site: "Curate all your stuff to create beautiful portfolios.
Arrange and describe all your digital artifacts in a way that tells your whole story—tailored for any audience."
"Pathbrite ePortfolios are the best way to collect, track and showcase a lifetime of learning and achievements, and to get recommended pathways for continuous success."
Key traits:
-> Aggregate everything about you in one place.
-> Import anything digital from any source, including a resume, documents, audio, video, recommendations.
-> Publish and share your story on Pathbrite or with your selected social networks.
-> Configure and personalize the layout of your portfolio.
Examples: https://beta.pathbrite.com/#!/public/Gallery/Collection%20of%20example%20portfolios ;
Try it out now: www.pathbrite.com
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An example of the second language acquisition concept of "noticing," where learners see a gap between their own interlanguage and the target language, or come to understand a new target language feature.
This university learner also talks about her learning strategies for translation between two foreign languages, and how they developed over time.
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