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NZALT Conference 8-11 July 2018
Report for STANZA by Sue Pommarède
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THE INTERCULTURAL DIMENSION IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS
· Dr Elba Ramirez has researched the 6 Intercultural Principles (Newton
- http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/Learning-
languages/Pedagogy/Principles-and-actions#6principles) and found
that they are not being well disseminated
· Tips:
· Do, rather than Tell
· Guide students to the ‘3rd place’ between their culture and the TL
culture
· Refer to the plurality of cultures in your classroom
· Invisible culture = mindsets, perspectives, values, intangible beliefs
· Active process of making meaning, checking students’ own world view
and relating to the L2 one
· Use experiential real-life tasks
· Build in time for reflection
· Change from a “consumer-tourist” approach to focus on self-discovery
and discovering others
· Dr Elba Ramirez has researched the 6 Intercultural Principles (Newton
- http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/Learning-
languages/Pedagogy/Principles-and-actions#6principles) and found
that they are not being well disseminated
· Tips:
· Do, rather than Tell
· Guide students to the ‘3rd place’ between their culture and the TL
culture
· Refer to the plurality of cultures in your classroom
· Invisible culture = mindsets, perspectives, values, intangible beliefs
· Active process of making meaning, checking students’ own world view
and relating to the L2 one
· Use experiential real-life tasks
· Build in time for reflection
· Change from a “consumer-tourist” approach to focus on self-discovery
and discovering others
MIND-BODY CONNECTION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (Dr Scott Thornbury, (New York)
· language is rooted in the way we experience the physical world
· Learning and ACTIVITY are integrally connected
· Acting out meanings increases retention of vocab
· Gestures are integral to speech and not just add-ons, increase
redundancy and reduce ambiguity, add emphasis, reduce cognitive load,
can compensate for linguistic difficulty
· Our bodies remember, muscle memory
· Language is about shaping and performing meaning
· See grammar in motion studies by Jean-Rémi Lapaire (Bordeaux)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6KL1TbmLxI
· language is rooted in the way we experience the physical world
· Learning and ACTIVITY are integrally connected
· Acting out meanings increases retention of vocab
· Gestures are integral to speech and not just add-ons, increase
redundancy and reduce ambiguity, add emphasis, reduce cognitive load,
can compensate for linguistic difficulty
· Our bodies remember, muscle memory
· Language is about shaping and performing meaning
· See grammar in motion studies by Jean-Rémi Lapaire (Bordeaux)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6KL1TbmLxI
USING ICT - Joe Dale – Independent Consultant (England)
· https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pg4dC1HeaOrnU3kO5AHz_CG
ANaEOoaoHMGxmwHsPFyw/edit?usp=sharing
· Amazing range of free Android and IOS apps to use for speaking
presentations or interactions
· Apps I liked best were masqrd, ifunface, mytalkingavatar,
coolfingerfaces – great for spoken presentations and interactions at
any level
· 21st c teacher tools:
· Menti - www.menti.com (tool for getting opinions from students, words
will appear as a wordcloud
· Padlet – you can now record film, audio, add map and draw
· Flipgrid https://flipgrid.com/ – an assessment tool for collating all
videos your students do for .2s for example. Creates a video wall. Can
be used for sharing any thoughts orally via video.
· https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pg4dC1HeaOrnU3kO5AHz_CG
ANaEOoaoHMGxmwHsPFyw/edit?usp=sharing
· Amazing range of free Android and IOS apps to use for speaking
presentations or interactions
· Apps I liked best were masqrd, ifunface, mytalkingavatar,
coolfingerfaces – great for spoken presentations and interactions at
any level
· 21st c teacher tools:
· Menti - www.menti.com (tool for getting opinions from students, words
will appear as a wordcloud
· Padlet – you can now record film, audio, add map and draw
· Flipgrid https://flipgrid.com/ – an assessment tool for collating all
videos your students do for .2s for example. Creates a video wall. Can
be used for sharing any thoughts orally via video.
· Texting Story – text message story which can be exported as a video –
eg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dcxd8aKpU
· Autodraw- https://www.autodraw.com/ Start drawing and students
guess the object in TL. Google finds a picture which fits the drawing.
Useful for any describe and draw activity -eg) describing a room
· Quickdraw - https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/?locale=es Spanish
version of Quickdraw. Computer tells you what to draw and then tries to
guess what it is in under 20 seconds. Like Pictionary.
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/?locale=fr French version
· Join MFL Twitterati (5,000 members) – amazing community of language
teachers sharing ideas all the time.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-8ru4WYXDhTTDhSOThVVXgyaFk/view?
usp=sharing
· Joe Dale Youtube channel -how to videos -
https://www.youtube.com/user/joedale100
· PD – GO OUT AND FIND IT YOURSELF – DON’T WAIT FOR IT TO COME
TO YOU!
eg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_dcxd8aKpU
· Autodraw- https://www.autodraw.com/ Start drawing and students
guess the object in TL. Google finds a picture which fits the drawing.
Useful for any describe and draw activity -eg) describing a room
· Quickdraw - https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/?locale=es Spanish
version of Quickdraw. Computer tells you what to draw and then tries to
guess what it is in under 20 seconds. Like Pictionary.
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/?locale=fr French version
· Join MFL Twitterati (5,000 members) – amazing community of language
teachers sharing ideas all the time.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-8ru4WYXDhTTDhSOThVVXgyaFk/view?
usp=sharing
· Joe Dale Youtube channel -how to videos -
https://www.youtube.com/user/joedale100
· PD – GO OUT AND FIND IT YOURSELF – DON’T WAIT FOR IT TO COME
TO YOU!
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR NCEA EXTERNALS
Annabelle Sinclair – HOD Languages Wellington Girls, President NZALT
· Fabulous practical ideas for how to train students to answer externals
and justify opinions. eg) True / False statements about a text. True
because the text says …
· Use an annotated exemplar from NZQA website and choose an
Achieved. Get students to say how it could be improved.
· See her PPT in Dropbox link below
· One of the BEST sessions – worth reading
Annabelle Sinclair – HOD Languages Wellington Girls, President NZALT
· Fabulous practical ideas for how to train students to answer externals
and justify opinions. eg) True / False statements about a text. True
because the text says …
· Use an annotated exemplar from NZQA website and choose an
Achieved. Get students to say how it could be improved.
· See her PPT in Dropbox link below
· One of the BEST sessions – worth reading