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Tag: peer-reflection

Web research in Spanish Civilization

Course objectives:

  • to do research on selected topics using authentic Spanish web sites
  • to be able to reflect on this work
  • to develop the analytical skills to critique the work of others as well as learn from their critiques of one’s personal work
  • to  share this work within a community of learners.
  • Targeting reading and writen communicative proficiency as well as the connections and  community,

Go to sample: Spanish, 331 and Spanish 331, sec 2

Instructor: M. Geoffron-Vinci                      Lafayette College

Artifact: Self-Portraits in French

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

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