Keeping Language Learning Fun and Interesting in Post-Brexit Uk

This presentation was given on Friday Oct 13 at the Language Show Live in London, UK in the Seminar Programme.

Video, references and further resources can be found at
https://www.anomiseditrix.net/brexit-uk-language-learning
An abstract of this session can be found here:
https://www.anomiseditrix.net/blog/2017/9/3/language-show-blogpost-cta

Transcript

1. Language Learning in 
 the Post-Brexit UK: How to keep it 
 fun and interesting @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
2. Jennifer 
 Geacone-Cruz 
 MSc Psycholinguistics
 
 anomiseditrix.net Berlin Dimitris 
 Polychronopoulos
 MBA
 
 yozzi.com, Oslo Countries: 12
 
 Languages: 23 Founding member,
 Institute of Human Connectivity, hosted at Regent’s University Content Director, Lingvist @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
3. Brexit and Language Learning Whom does it affect?
 
 What’s the relationship?
 
 What are schools’ responsibilities?
 
 What is the teacher’s role?
 
 What can parents do?
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4. Informal Survey 
 Administrators?
 
 Teachers?
 
 Parents?
 
 Students?
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5. Why Start with Cultural Awareness? Builds curiosity and interest Builds empathy for the administration Helps stop bullying Encourages knowledge sharing Paves way for integration of home languages into the curriculum @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
6. Getting Active with Language Kinaesthetic learning 
 reinforces content and its understanding through active learning transitions” and helps “transition between classroom activities or within the school building — Dr. Martha Eddy 
 Princeton University 
 founder and director of the Centre for Kinaesthetic Education @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
7. Tell Tales Inspired by Eithne Gallagher Class creates a fairy tale featuring the home languages of the class @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
8. Keep it Moving Involve activities where the students are not sitting at their desks to engage muscle memory Introduce and model the vocabulary
 
 Have the students use the language during the activity
 
 Award extra points for consistent use of language
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9. Create Times and Setting Set aside a regular time period to use home languages to learn topically
 Encourage students to learn the home language of one of their classmates 
 
 Engage by maxing mixed pairs and teams @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
10. Exchange and Connect Pen pal exchanges, old-fashioned letters and postcards Digital platforms such as PenPalSchools (Downside: most are not free) Bili (https://www.bili.uk.com ) pairs schools for exchanges. (Free; English, French, German and Spanish) High-quality open-source platform for students to engage in cultural and language exchange
 
 Educators and open-source community need to have more collaboration @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
11. Drawing New Conclusions Students create their own cartoon characters with a plot in English and the target language of choice @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
12. Hobby Helpers survey student hobbies
 show & tell presentations
 have students teach their peers
 smaller hobby-based groups within language clubs
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13. Making Mistakes Correctness doesn’t make a fluent speaker
 
 Getting one’s point across is much more important for fluency Develop ways to cope with gaps in knowledge while still negotiating situations
 Incorporate mistakes into positively reinforced activities and games Active speaking is more important than perfection @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
14. Film Fun short film, tv, or advertising clips
 short scenes from popular films or shows and have students act them out
 show familiar clips with dubbing or subtitles after modelling or preparation
 have students write their own short scripts
 create adverts for invented products
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15. Language of Song Translate songs from target to source language Involve home languages
 Use a karaoke format
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16. Challenge Channels Use limited-time challenges
 
 Give students means to track their progress in short frames for motivation
 Short-timed challenges will increase discourse strategies
 
 Targeted rehearsal @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
17. Ageless Communication Utilise virtual communication
 Invite retirees from the community
 Paired learning
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18. Make It Stick Post-it Rally
 
 Memory Game
 
 Large-scale word jumbles
 
 Guess Game @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
19. Three Times, A Charm One-Third stories
 
 Insert target-language words into text
 
 Original stories created with a list of required vocabulary @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
20. Spontaneous Communication Improvisation calibrated to the student’s level
 Emotional connection to the language, losing fear of unpredictability, and developing alternative discourse strategies @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
21. Share Your Stories A pupil whose home language is not English and who lives in the UK
 A monolingual pupil trying to learn a second language
 Parents who immigrated to the UK, speak another language at home and who have a child in school in the UK
 A monolingual teacher in the UK, with children in the classroom whose home language is not English By sharing your viewpoints with us, we will be able to use the power of storytelling to create a greater level of awareness, empathy and understanding around the challenges of language learning in the UK. @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi
22. To share your stories, see our sources, and get more information, visit our talk page: https://goo.gl/sp14R6 Dimitris 
 Polychronopoulos Jennifer 
 Geacone-Cruz @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi @anomiseditrix @LanguageYozzi