Documenting best practices in language teaching
Targeted teaching context: traditionally taught undergraduate language classes with emphasis on the “process” portfolio
Course objectives:
Go to sample: Spanish, 331 and Spanish 331, sec 2
Instructor: M. Geoffron-Vinci Lafayette College
Mid-term project: a student business portfolio
Objectives: communicative competence (presentational (speaking and media composition), use of authentic materials
Instructor: M. Lamb-Faffelberger Lafayette College
In this Spanish course on Pre-Colombian Latin America, students used images from a research data base created by the professor to “write” a documentary on a topic of their choice. This is a scaffolded project with a print draft and required practice pronunciation with a FLLRC native speaker proctor; most projects were collaborative with students learning from each other.
Communicative objectives: interpretive, presentational (speaking and “writing”).
Objective: to add a new communicative competencies to a course curriculum that previously only required an reading and writing component.
Sample one : students were asked to professionally subtitle segments of a French film (listening)
Sample two: students were asked to interview a French students on their opinion of the American elections and then subtitle the segment for the local American TV station. Quite serendipitously, one of the American students was in turn asked to be interviewed by his French counterpart, who was a communications major; the interview was run on Radio France and published on their website. (listening, interpersonal modes of communication)
Students worked with the Max Kade Center writer in residence to write and perform their own play. At the end of the semester, students used multimedia to compose aon their experience.
Instructor: M. Lamb-Faffelberger Lafayette College
This is work done in an independent study with the objective of composing in multimedia using a number of communicative skills with a cross-disciplinary focus on the student’s major.
Instructor: T. Rom Lafayette College
This assignment was part of a process where first semester students were first asked to write up a self-portrait with the intention rendering it eventually into a movie.
Step 2: After the draft and rewrite, one of our native speaker proctors read each portrait and saved an audio file on our server which the students used for practicing their pronunciation.
Step 3: students made a first draft of their videos. This page represents this 3rd stage of the project. Ideally each student was to critique three of his/her classmates work; a rubric was given for this purpose. Unfortunately, we had some technical slow-downs, so students were only able to critique one or two.
Step 4: Create a final version taking into account the comments received from students and their instructor. Again, please note that these are not the final projects.
Objectives: developing 4 modes of communicative competence (listening, speaking, writing, and presentational) , developing the metacognitive skills to improve their personal learning, building a community of learners where students are given the opportunity to help others all while reinforcing their own personal, learning experience.
See authorized samples.
Instructor: M. Toulouse Lafayette College
Scaffolded assignment where students studied different forms of news media and produced an example. Targeted communicative skills: interpretive, speaking, presentational.
Instructor: N. Ikegami Lafayette College
Project Objectives:
-Communicative skills in development (speaking, reading, presentational)
-Functional purpose (demonstrates what students can do…)
Students recorded their speech once a week over the entire academic year so they could see their progress. Note the week “one” versus the “week 25”. chn_102_y1_sample
Instructor: K Venuto Lafayette College
This student is enrolled in the FLL methods class as part of his preparation to be a GILS conversation partner. Of note are the course outcomes and and the evidence that he provides as he completes each one. This is a team taught class, so he will have responses from several instructors.
Course outcomes and evidence provided by student.
Instructors: Hammouch, Toulouse, Qualtere, Geoffrion-Vinci, Lafayette College
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