NZALT Conference
8-11 July 2018
Report for STANZA by Sue Pommarède

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

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

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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.

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·        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!

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

USING STORIES IN THE CLASSROOM (Kathleen Duquemin, Melbourne)

·        Students have to listen first and READ A LOT before we can expect
them to write or speak
·        Much more input before output
·        Poetry – culturally rich and short – not so off-putting
·        Tongue-twisters – stay in the memory
·        Images – eg) Where’s Wally – useful for creating text
·        Children’s picture books – take less than 10% of content, make a PPT
of best pictures and get students to create a text
·        Save PPT as a Jpeg and put into Book Creator to make a digital book -
https://bookcreator.com/ (fabulous!)
·        Use interactive card games – Quizlet, Quizizz.com, flippity.net based
on story
·        Spanish short stories – bilingual – videos -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjSNJ_FKEw&list=PLG9uoQ5vCS-
4bL8bagnlEMfn_dYeeI_Zj
·        Intermediate Spanish – Scary Story video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8MNApkxiHs

TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED TASK-BASED LEARNING (Dr Marta González-Lloret, Hawai’i)

·        Communicating in an interconnected world
·        Start with a needs analysis, then the TL needed, then which
technology to use and digital skills and capacities needed
·        Tasks and technology are both based on LEARNING BY DOING
·        Emails, questionnaires to share language and culture, webpages,
collaborate and contrast culture, blogs, wikis
·        Use Wordle.net as a pre-reading activity where students write the
words they expect will come up in a text and see them graphically.
Compare with actual text afterwards.
·        Online Fandoms – eg) fanfiction.net – allows students to join
international communities with similar interests
·        Games – MMORPGS – online roleplaying games where you have to
talk to accomplish quests
·        Educational games for collaborative problem solving – 3rd World
Farmer, World Without Oil, Energy City (Games4Stustainability)
·        VR (Virtual Reality) for education -
https://edu.google.com/expeditions/#about
·        Simulations – eg) Frida Kahlo museum –
https://www.recorridosvirtuales.com/frida_kahlo/museo_frida_kahlo.html

AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE CERTIFICATES (Gabriella Bertolissi)


·        www.acer.org/alc
·        tests now online
·        Certificate 1 – 100 hours
· Certificate 2 – 200 hours
· Certificate 3 – 300 hours
·        60 multichoice questions per test (Listening and Reading)
·        $13 per student
·        every August – from 1st-31st as it suits you
·        good way of providing a snapshot of achievement
·        certificate of recognition


DROPBOX -conference papers
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fgosh4iqce3soec/AABUknb76SVIQAfmb8a9YBtCa?dl=0

Make sure you go and try something new!

Muchas gracias a STANZA