Tag: language-learning
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Assessment Data: Language Acquisition Writing Samples
Encouraging students to engage with the French language was not always an easy task. One of the ways I tried to break down the barriers between students and a sense of success was through a pedagogical tool I called Friday Free Writes. In my middle school French classroom, many of our lessons followed a Comprehensible…
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Assessment as a System for Feedback
At the broadest level, language learners are assessed on their ability to make meaning from input – through listening, reading, or viewing – and to be understood through their own communicative output. Learning targets for language learners include both concrete linguistic skills as well as more nuanced soft skills. For example, learners will need to…
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Successful Independent Language Learning through Affinity Spaces
Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash If I had a dollar for everytime someone told me they took French in high school but can no longer speak the language, I could treat us all to a café and some pâtisseries with this blog post. When it is common – and even easy – to forget…
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