NOTE: All of the following information is available in our webinar, "Tools for Teaching World Languages at a Distance."
****** Teaching world languages via distance learning... exciting or overwhelming? Stressful or innovative? Tiring or energizing? A time to coast or a time to prosper? Teaching and learning? Depending on the day and the class, the circumstances might change your answers to those questions. As fellow French teachers with you, we’d like to share some of our favorite (and easy) resources we have found to use with students during our time of distance learning. As language teachers, we are always focusing on the core skills of language (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and how to incorporate those so that students are met with lower order thinking up to higher order thinking. Meeting Reading and Writing Core Skills Incorporating reading and writing is a bit more conducive to distance learning than listening and speaking. There is a plethora of ways you can ask students to read and write. We like Kami and Boom Learning digital task cards. Check out the detailed and more in-depth explanation of how those work in these blog posts: Digital Pen and Paper with Kami and Boom with Writing. Meeting Listening and Speaking Core Skills Getting students to listen and speak the target language is a bit trickier with distance learning. We have found these two resources to be effective: Boom Learning task cards and FlipGrid. We offer 10 different ways to create listening activities in your Boom cards in our blog post HERE. Boom lacks the speaking capability, so that’s why we have incorporated FlipGrid for speaking purposes and explained it HERE. With FlipGrid, it works simply like this: Teacher posts a video with a prompt/discussion/question. Students respond with a recorded video. Classmates respond to each other with additional videos or emojis. It is very easy to see who is replying to whom. It is fun... and the best part? Students are SPEAKING in the target language. Check out the blog post for more detailed ways to get started and use it in the distance learning classroom. There are so many other resources available for world language learners and distance learning. We wrote out this list of other resources you might want to try. Which mentioned resources have you tried? Which one(s) do your students especially like? Do you have any suggestions for us? Let us know! [email protected]
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