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Updated on 2008-07-18
Created on 2008-06-26
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Using Voki and a blog in a sequence of three lessons
I set out to plan a series of three lessons, lasting forty minutes each, in which my pupils would acquire and revise the necessary vocabulary, visit the ICT centre and, finally review the outcome in class as a group. In the early planning for this series of lessons, I decided that pupils would make corrections and learn how to use Voki’s website under my supervision at school, but the bulk of their work, both written and spoken, would take place as homework, in order to capitalise on the fact that all my pupils, without exception, had a computer and internet access at home.
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I set out to plan a series of three lessons, lasting forty minutes each, in which my pupils would acquire and revise the necessary vocabulary, visit the ICT centre and, finally review the outcome in class as a group. In the early planning for this series of lessons, I decided that pupils would make corrections and learn how to use Voki’s website under my supervision at school, but the bulk of their work, both written and spoken, would take place as homework, in order to capitalise on the fact that all my pupils, without exception, had a computer and internet access at home.
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revising the appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures using an interactive whiteboard and introducing Voki to my pupils
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Languages from the Cradle - lullabies of Europe
"Languages from the Cradle" is a European Union funded project to collect the lullabies of Europe..
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Working in a different language - OneNote - Microsoft Office Online
If you speak or teach a language other than English and use OneNote, read this.
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Google Earth Gallery - Alan Lomax Global Language Audio Collection
This wonderfully presented KML documents a diverse collection of human languages within their geographic locale. Each placemark provides a description balloon with an embedded audio sample to hear, along with additional information and links. This KML is an excellent example of showing information n...
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70+ Online Language Communities and Resources
The world wide web can be a good place to start learning a foreign language. This is a compilation of language communities, tools, and other online resources that’ll help you get started.
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Using Web 2.0 to motivate boys to speak in the target language
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It is a well researched fact that boys and girls prefer different learning styles and that that they have a different approach to their education: girls are generally portrayed as conscientious and hard working, while boys are often portrayed as lazy and indulging in an anti-education culture. There is a wide spread recognition that gender does indeed affect the way we all think, behave and learn (Maynard 2002).
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- they are subject to peer pressures and fear of negative feedback from teachers;
- they suffer from lack of self-confidence; and
- they regard speaking as not being real work, preferring instead to engage in activities which they see as having a concrete and practical outcome, such as writing.
In short, most boys do not like to talk in the foreign language because:
All of the above socio-affective factors conspire to strengthen boys’ reluctance to speak in their own language, never mind a foreign language in which, not only do they have to say something of consequence on the spot in front of their teacher and fellow students, but in addition they have to pronounce all those strange sounds while ensuring that they get the grammar right.
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Languages Resources Index
Follow the links to the left of the page to be redirected to French, German & Spanish resources for Key Stages 3 and 4. Over time, more resources will be added and there is now an AS AND A2 SPANISH RESOURCES section too.
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Learn 35+ Languages for Free in iTunes
To get the entire list of language learning podcasts, hit the browse button on the lower-right corner of your iTunes window—it’s the icon that looks like an eye. Then browse to the Podcasts/Education/Language Courses directory.
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Language Studies
The Authoring Software that made these exercises is now available for purchase, contact us for further details
We are also running a one-day seminar on use of the software
This course material is freely available for use by teachers in any educational institution, although the copyright remains with the Department of Language Studies at London Guildhall University. -
Sebran's ABC - free software for kids
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The program teaches using either Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Swahili or Swedish (in Swedish, the droll zebra gracing the main screen is called "sebran").
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