3 Ideas on how to incorporate Blogs in a Foreign Language Classroom:
1) Teachers can post a speaking scenario and students can have a conversation with a partner or with the instructor. This can help alleviate some of the stress that comes from speaking in front of their peers in a classroom.
N.Y. State Standards Met:
Standard 1: Communication-
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
2) Teachers can post a link to a cultural topic, picture, video, work of art, song/music, etc. and students can list their observations, interpretations, and opinions about the piece. Students must also try to make a connection or comparison between the cultural topic addressed and their own culture in the U.S. They can also comment about their classmate's reflections.
N.Y. State Standards Met:
Standard 1: Communication-
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 2: Culture –
Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
3) Teachers can post a copy of an article or a link to an article from or regarding a Spanish-Speaking country and students will have to read and interpret the article. They will have to comment about the piece and give their own opinions and reflections as well as post any vocabulary terms or grammar constructions that they had a hard time understanding.
To help stimulate reflective thoughts teachers can pose three questions or ideas for students to reflect on. Students can comment on their classmate's reflections.
N.Y. State Standards Met:
Standard 1: Communication-
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 2: Culture –
Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
6 comments:
I like your blog assignment idea of the students reading a post/article on culture and then they post their reflections, etc about their own culture and the one they are learning about.
Hey Elisabeth,
I think I like your ideas, especially the first one. I agree with you that it will alleviate the students' stress to some extent. All the ways of combining blogging into teaching are really helpful to me. Thanks!
Yiren
Your ideas are a clear demonstration that a variety of state standards can be met while engaging students in technologically-savvy ways. I'm also a foreign language teacher (Latin) and I like how culture is also an equally important aspect of your approach to language education. This philosophy also translates well onto the blogosphere since students can immerse themselves in any number of digital resources relevant to the second language's culture.
I like that you have seen the possibilities offered by having the students post both in L1 and L2. Each type of post serves a good learning purpose.
I see a clear connetion between your ideas and the state standards. Many of your ideas are in details and quite practical. I learnt a lot from your post. Thanks!~
Hi-
I'm so late to comment your blog but I want to say your blog is very unique. Also, I like your ideas, too. Your ideas could be easy to communicate with students.
Thanks!!
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