The screen recording programs, Camtasia for PC & Screenflow for Mac cost about 1000 SEK, but can be used, fully functional for 30 days without cost. It was the trial version that students used during the course. What do these programs do? They record your computer screen, and your voice. So, talk aloud as you show your powerpoint, then do some simple editing. Perhaps add a little music or some magnification of some text. Then, hej presto ... your lecture is available on line.
But wait a minute ... why make the lecture yourself? Provide students with the links below and let them make it for you?:
But wait a minute ... why make the lecture yourself? Provide students with the links below and let them make it for you?:
- guidelines about what to do;
- a link from where the programs can be downloaded and
- tutorials about how to use the software
An example of a student-produced video lecture
Children Learning a Foreign Language (made by a trainee teacher at Linne University in 2008).
This chapter provides the foundation for the book, reviewing theories of child development and language learning, and discussing affective factors in the learning of a foreign and second language. The division of language into written language and oral language seems to reflect the ways in which children learn and use language, and is a move towards developing an applied linguistics in this context.
Children Learning a Foreign Language (made by a trainee teacher at Linne University in 2008).
This chapter provides the foundation for the book, reviewing theories of child development and language learning, and discussing affective factors in the learning of a foreign and second language. The division of language into written language and oral language seems to reflect the ways in which children learn and use language, and is a move towards developing an applied linguistics in this context.
Study Questions
- Provide a summary of the immediately obvious differences between adults and children when they learn languages.
- How does the author (Lynne Cameron) distinguish between a leaner-centred perspective and learner centred teaching?
- Provide your own example of accommodation and assimilation.
- What does Piagetian theory offer to language teachers?
- What is meant by Vygotsky’s private speech?
- How do parents scaffold tasks in an effective manner?
- What is meant by helping children to attend to what is important?
- Provide you own example of how a parent might reduce scaffolding?
- Some aspects of English are late acquired. Exemplify.
- A group of young children may have developed different domains of language use. How will this affect your role in the classroom?
- Why is word order more important in Swedish and English, compared to Italian, for example?
- Compare the gains in foreign language learning between younger/ older children.
- Why might the customary division of the ‘four skills’ be inappropriate for young learners?
- Describe and discuss the division of language, as suggested by Cameron.
Satish Patel, ICT Coach at Umeå University & Nordic Interactive Solutions