Welcome to the 5 Week Linguist Show. In this episode, Janina discusses more fun in the language classroom. She shares low-tech, effective, no prep, and fun activities that you can use in language learning. [1:02] Using Flashcards for Fun Visual Activities [2:07] Activity #1: Go Fish [2:26] Mechanics of Go Fish [4:53] Activity #2: Memory… Read More 5 More Weeks of Fun 2
Welcome to the 5 Week Linguist Show. In today’s episode, Janina shares activities that you can use with available tools online to further your language learning. [1:00] The First Easy Activity you can use with Online Tools [2:10] The Real Way to Use to Use Quizlet Live [3:18] An alternative for Quizlet Live [4:05] Next… Read More 5 More Weeks of Fun Week 1
Welcome to the five-week linguist show. We’re going to talk about assessments. (0:32) Five quick assessments that you can do in your language classes. (0:56) The key, when you’re thinking about assessment, is really, can I do it? Some easy ways to be able to assess yourself. (2:53) Get a notebook, start a fluency journal,… Read More Assessment
I love infusing gratitude into my language classes. I think it’s an important life lesson. It also provides some great context within which to teach languages. One of my very favorite activities is gratitude journalling. I discovered these during a very difficult period of my life. I had to write down, every day, no fewer… Read More Gratitude and Languages
Welcome five-week linguist show. We are going to talk about Culture. (0:51) – Culture is all about interacting with cultural competence and understanding and act full. (0:58) – The standard relates cultural practices to perspectives and relating cultural products to perspective. (01:35)- Linguists want to help people learn languages without offending people with understanding people.… Read More ACTFL 5 C’s: Culture
I love comics for learning languages at all levels. You can learn a lot of familiar spoken language put together in a really clever way very quickly. Creating comics are a great way to practice what you’ve learned. I love using storyboards for narration. Essentially, the students should fill in the story board, making their… Read More Comics and Learning Languages
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Welcome to the Five-Week Linguist Show! Today, we will be talking about utilizing Connection to learn languages. (00:31) – The Five C’s (00:47) – Definition of Connection (01:32) – Using other content areas and ideas to learn languages (02:07) – The Six Global Themes (02:23) – Themes under Daily Life (03:10) – Different connections to… Read More ACTFL 5 C’s: Connections