learning a second language through etwinning

eTwinning conference 2011Budapest

Workshop:Learning a second language through eTwinning

Ria De Wilde (Be)Alice Micallef (Mt)

Ria De Wilde:

-teacher of French and coordinator in Belgium, -in the Flemish part: in Poperinge, near to the French border-French = second language-eTwinning projects since 2005, in French, one in Spanish-coordinator of a Comenius project, in English

eTwinning partners all over Europe:a very small number in France!

Activities to motivate the students : use a social network or the new eTwinning TwinSpace

Until last year:Ning / New TwinSpaceThis school year:Grouply / New TwinSpace

Tools used for collaboration:BlogsWikisEmbed videos (YouTube/Vimeo/…) Embed PPT (slideshare)…

Second language learning:our first aim: learn the foreign language!

Competences:WritingReadingListeningSpeaking

Second language learning:small projects <-> big projectsintegration in the curriculum

Projects:Eurodrawing

Mot de passe: CYBER ESPACE.

Activities to motivate the students:make a film with Windows Movie Maker

Preparation:- Write a text- Take pictures- Record the presentation- Film the school- Use Windows Movie Maker Responsibility of the students!Fun!A little bit of fear!Real audience!

Activities to motivate the students : write a story together and use a WIKIPlanète @dosLa Cyberclasse EUropéenneThe Quest for the European Grail

Activities to motivate the students : the students discuss about the project in a FORUM

Project:LaCyberclasse EUropéenne.

Activities to motivate the students : the students prepare a quiz and publish it in a BLOG

Project:Notre fabuleuse histoire européenne.

Activities to motivate the students :Present historic figures, choose 2 figures of the partners and make a video of them.The presentations are uploaded on Slideshare and embedded in the TwinSpace.The videos are uploaded on Vimeo and will also be embedded in the TwinSpace.

Activities to motivate the students : the students write a story based on pictures taken by the students.Project:10x10x10

Activities to motivate the students : the students write a song together and publish the performance.Project:The Quest for the European Grail.

Activities to motivate the students : -create a Voki

-record the voiceof the students with Voxopop

Projects:Mot de passe: CYBER ESPACE.

Bon.PlanNet

Alice Micallef

Language teaching and learning in Malta

•Teaching German as a foreign language.•Coordinator for German as a foreign

language.

Creating situations for learning beyond the classroom walls eTwinning tasks integrated within / as an

extension of classroom activities.

Twinspace Wiki Forum

Learning the language – the intercultural dimension of language learning

•Twinspace - E-Mail

What do we work on?

•About our life in Malta and Germany.

•Integrating classroom content with student task objectives.

Our partner class in Germany

Project work – collaborating with the partner class

The travel guide - Project work •Writing about places to visit in Malta /

Germany •A cultural , a historical and a place for

entertainment •Present a place to your partner on the

twinspace•Ask for information •Help your eTwinning partners to write in

the target language / your mother tongue..

•Present a ‘travel guide’ with the information collected, about the authors, and the students providing the information.

Individual and group planning

an element of trust ...information gap activities ..sources of informationMy favourite place in Berlin

An interesting place in Berlin is the ……………….. It is an entire quarter built from scratch after 1995, in place of the Berlin wall which had divided the city for years.

Collaborative work

Wiki – reflecting on language learning - collaborating and constructing ..Continuation of group work started in classInput from target language speakers.

Proofreading and correcting eachothers’ work.

Extension of group work – class wiki

A community of learning – class forum• Hallo. Ich bin Sarah. Ich habe diese Webseite gefunden und sie

ist toll. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/german/Aisfor.shtml

• Eine interessane Webseite ...hier kann man Texte finden ...und viel mehr.

http://www.deutschlern.net/

Und hier kannst du ein Thema aussuchen und Wortschatz wiederholen ....oder etwas Neues lernen....auch wenn du italienisch nicht verstehst.

http://ospitiweb.indire.it/ictavagnacco/deutsch/

Hallo! Ich bin Rebecca. Ich habe diese Übungen gefunden:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/german/readingf/

Learning aims – learning outcomes- eTwinning activities integrated within

language lessons

- Language learning aims set by the teacher.

- Language learning tasks set by teacher and students.

- Element of choice – addressing diverse learning styles and learning competences.

Second language learning

•Focus on the process of learning •Learners have time to reflect on the

language – focus on language awareness•Learn the language through active

engagement•Space to construct the language through

interaction with other language learners

eTwinning - learner attitudes to language learning.•Motivation to learn the language.•The role of the language being learned –

students’ attitude to language learning.•Need to learn the language – long and

short term aims.•Working on various competencies–

starting from what students can do with the language / creating a space within which to use the language through authentic situations.

eTwinning activities to share

•A task set •Within the language lesson/ over a

number of lessons •Target language speakers/ native tongue

speakers•Main language aims•Collaboration with classmates / with

partner class•Learning outcomes

Discussion in small groups:

Which activity is very useful for second language learning? Write it on the yellow post-it note.

Propose another useful activity you have experience with. Write it on the green post-it note.