Cockroaches and Ladybugs: How to facilitate speaking in the ESL classroom Upper Primary Level. How difficult is to teach conversation in the ESL classroom! How difficult is to stir spontaneous speaking! If you are using a textbook you will realize that the material found in ESL textbooks are dry and lack the variety and authenticity of real-world conversations. A good way is using video clips as a conversational prompt. First problem: To find one that is appropriate. Clips shorter than two minutes may not provide enough substance from which students can create a narrative. Second problem: Where to find suitable video clips? Personally, the ones I like the most are: the YouTube Pixar channel and Ringling College of Art Design channels in Vimeo. I recently used this video from the YouTube Pixar channel in Year 5, just after reading the Heinemann book "Castles. My students usually work in small groups. The first time I play the video, I ask children to do nothing: just watch and listen. This video is from the student gallery of Ringling College of Art and Design.
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100 (Free) Ways To Learn to Speak Another Language Learning another language is among the many things that have been made easier with the explosion of the digital universe. While some of the resources aren’t incredible (simply using Google Translate), and some of the languages fairly obscure (Welsh), the list is impressive if for no other reason than to demonstrate how much is actually out there if you do a little digging. Video Channels Just watch and learn. Cantocourse Learn Cantonese through skits involving live cattle, public security officers, and “dating tips for plonkers.”OMGmeiyu In these short videos, English idioms and slang are translated into Mandarin by a perky American host.Swahili Lessons Get a short intro to this African language with this collection of videos.Let’s Speak Korean And how shall we speak it? Podcasts If you’re an auditory learner, we have good news for you. Textbooks Finally, free textbooks. Translation Use them as a supplement to your studies or just type a word in and memorize what comes out. Communities Tools
5 Great Infographics for Language Teachers and Learners Infographics are great learning materials. The colourful graphics, clear text and their size make them ideal for classroom integration. I have been posting some of the ones I deem educationl to help teachers leverage this resource to create engaging, relevant and personalized learning experiences in their classes. In this regard, I am introducing you today to a series made up of four parts all containing the best infograpgics about English language teaching and learning. Due to their size we could not embed all the infographics in one post instead we distributed them on four posts with each one of them containing links to other posts to make it easy for you to navigate the four posts without having to move away. Teachers can print them out and pin them on the class wall for students to access throughout the whole year. Part One ( scroll down to read the content of this part) Definite and indefinite articlesAll about AdjectivesPunctuation Passive VoiceWhen to use e.g and i.e Part One
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Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards CSS Guidelines (2.2.2) – High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS POSTER: English Is A Crazy Language Do you think English is easy to learn? Well, here's a short example of how complicated it in fact is! Check out this high quality print-friendly poster below - you're most welcome to print it out and place either in your classroom or Teacher's Room for everyone to see. Don't forget to 'LIKE' it or tweet about it (see the buttons above), or email it to your fellow teachers! Enjoyed this poster and learned something? Want more teaching tips like this? Get the Entire BusyTeacher Library Instant download. Show me sample pages → Rate this article: was this poster helpful? 4 out of 5, rated by 142 teachers
babbel Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. We work in the same office in Berlin so I constantly hear him using his skills, switching from language to language like a chameleon changing colors. In fact, for the longest time I didn’t even know he was British. When I told Matthew how I’ve been struggling to merely pick up a second language, he had the following advice for me. If you believe that you can never become bilingual, take note! This might sound obvious, but if you don’t have a good reason to learn a language, you are less likely to stay motivated over the long-run. “OK, I want to learn this and I’m therefore going to do as much as I can in this language, with this language and for this language.” Matthew learned several languages together with his twin brother Michael (they tackled their first foreign language, Greek, when they were only eight years old!). “We were very motivated, and we still are. We learn by making mistakes.
Performance-Based Assessment: Rubrics, Web 2.0 Tools and Language Competencies Performance-Based Assessment: Rubrics, Web 2.0 Tools and Language Competencies*W. I. Griffith, Hye-Yeon Lim Defense Language Institute Foreign Language CenterContact: * Contents of the paper aren't necessarily the official views of or endorsed by the US Government, Departments of Defense or of the Army, or of the Defense Language Institute of Foreign Language Center. Introduction Assessing student performance in ESL/EFL classrooms is one of the biggest concerns educators face. Many teachers have traditionally relied on some sort of test to assess learning. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to evaluate student competency and proficiency in foreign language classrooms. Performance-Based Assessments (PBAs) It has often been noted that while students may perform well on a test, they have no actual command of the language and cannot use it in authentic situations. Performance activities are often based on “authentic” tasks. Many benefits of PBAs have been identified (cf. The Rubric 1.