tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24537838639933146672024-03-06T14:32:03.085+09:00The PIGATE Blog for Grassroots Teacher DevelopmentThis blog is for PIGATE, a grass-roots pre- and in-service teacher development group in Kumamoto, JP. Our monthly meetings are every 2nd Saturday, usually from 1:30-4:30 p.m. For more information, please contact pigateadvisor01 (aT) Gmail (dOt) com.PIGATE Advisorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188194708815074533noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-86368962388126346412023-03-14T15:21:00.001+09:002023-03-14T15:25:21.240+09:00Learning re-envisioned<p>This post showcases slides from a remote presentation to PIGATE on Saturday, March 11th.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="299" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTMzIWPHyFb8OHrfvSK8PwK8kkqgpfxWjq9QIRGjnOQ1znTuA8cyJN64nZI-fxW96nq-7vc0Ww7E71r/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></div><p>Comments and questions about the slides or the actual presentation are welcome on this post.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>PIGATE Advisorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188194708815074533noreply@blogger.com0Kumamoto, Japan32.8032164 130.7079369-47.018249781374436 -9.9170631000000071 90 -88.667063100000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-6815763624823279912022-03-10T21:39:00.001+09:002022-05-13T09:13:07.598+09:00World Hunger Bites ...<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... as do climate changes, international conflicts, and pandemics! </span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are representations of all four global problems [that] appear on the interactive World Food Program's HungerMap accessible from the hot-linked snapshot below (click to open).</span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="goog_80541904"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1924" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguN9esbSXPrRLcVYn1c_wv5Qq6Dlup-CqbXJBM2BAWLXAq9F27fhMWbGGOgbbJ2NdP9kKlOVcSt1LMpr2OleRSM3teMZZb735YPb5Y2SlCRaD8AVQ_jUPTPcsIjt2S25S4BoNnlGRolO-B8VcFgxG2UAgSRLQgrmPia1k_nSAjvglvo12lEPs1GpIA=w200-h113" width="200" /></span></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://hungermap.wfp.org/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://hungermap.wfp.org/</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In additional views, the map also can show current hazards to humans flagged for severity, for instance: droughts, floods, storms, volcanos, and wildfires.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please browse through the map and let us know in comments on this post what most concerns or surprises you, or what else you'd like to know about it. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We'll be especially keen to hear from teachers who are exploring sustainable development goals (SDGs) with students in classes that they teach.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last but not least, I'd like to express gratitude to a colleague, K. Tokunaga, who raised my awareness of previous World Food Program (WFP) HungerMaps.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">[134 words]</span></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>PIGATE Advisorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188194708815074533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-39349131538605162202021-09-07T16:52:00.003+09:002022-01-01T21:27:50.927+09:00Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition (Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2020)<div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Dyslexia-Completely-Revised-Updated/dp/0385350325/"><img alt="" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDN7t7iZyJ8BvFcMvb1uNZnxtAD84Vx2v0xd9iZHeX2MccoZteCBL4BQPXW43ia9LLwZrQNQvzHRdAtEO1nAQNCy6ddyV9mLi8IunfDdFHe6iykg4RGsrV35JNxi_7SwnpkA1fWiOixnen/w301-h320/image.png" width="301" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Image source: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Dyslexia-Completely-Revised-Updated/dp/0385350325/">Amazon.com</a> (2021.09.07 [highlighted, PB]) </div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For adult learners, parents, and teachers keen
on learning about reading disorders, dyslexia in particular, an updated book appears
to be an important addition to the field.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to the Amazon book blurb, this edition of <i>Overcoming Dyslexia</i> by Shaywitz and Shaywitz (2020) offers "new information on all aspects of dyslexia and reading problems, and ... the tools that parents, teachers, and all dyslexic individuals need<span style="font-family: inherit;">" (Read more, para. 1). </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The audible sample (<span style="background-color: #04ff00;">Listen</span> [1st author reading aloud?]) starts in Part I, Chapter 1, The Power of Knowing (<span style="background-color: #04ff00;">Look inside</span>, pp. 3-5) at </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Dyslexia-Completely-Revised-Updated/dp/0385350325/">Amazon.com</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An Online Tutor Business Coach, Joanne Kaminski, who recently streamed a video review, argued that a crucial take-away from this book about dyslexia is the importance of early diagnoses</span> (2021.08.30)<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span></div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;">References</h3><div><p style="margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kaminski, J. (2021.08.30). </span>Overcoming Dyslexia Review [online video recording]. <a href="https://youtu.be/hscEptUgg_A">https://youtu.be/hscEptUgg_A</a></p><p style="margin-left: 1cm; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -1cm;">Shaywitz, S. E., & Shaywitz, J. (2020). </span><i style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -1cm;">Overcoming dyslexia: A major update and revision of the essential program for reading problems at any level, incorporating the latest breakthroughs in science, educational methods, technology, and legal accommodations</i><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -1cm;">. Alfred A. Knopf.</span></p><div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-87413764034025734492021-08-16T16:59:00.006+09:002021-08-16T17:51:46.607+09:00Developing phonemic awareness: A follow-up on PIGATE's Special Summer Session, Sat. Aug. 14th<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">During PIGATE's online gathering on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021, participants explained (showed, and told of) a number of their favorite resources and practical techniques for exploiting songs and stories with language learners. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participants' accounts related to various activities with preschool children and early school-aged (elementary and junior high school) English-as-an-additional language learners in particular.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">To those inspiring accounts, which I hope you can review via Zoom meeting recordings, chat transcripts, and other short reports about PIGATE's August gathering, I'd like to add a pointer to a separate webinar recording. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">That webinar, from the iDTi 2015 Summer Intensive for Teachers, is about ways of developing learners' phonemic awareness, "necessary prerequisites for studying and reading in English" (<span id="docs-internal-guid-47e72839-7fff-cef2-4e70-73a3a0b55a79" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">idDTi Videos, 2021.08.12, description, ¶2</span></span>).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About 18 minutes into that webinar recording, Karen Frazier Tsai asserted:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"[W]e need to start first with making our children phonemically aware of the sounds in English, those sounds that are different from whatever their first language is." </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(auto-generated YouTube video transcript, 17:23–17:35)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She then asked and answered the questions: "[W]hat do we do; how do we start … to make them have that skill of really focusing in on the sounds" (transcript, 18:21–18:28, ff.). </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In sum, Tsai explained various ways of helping learners become aware of sounds, rhymes, and syllables by playing with words in a new language. Whether you're teaching pre-reading to young learners, or simply reading stories to children, I highly recommend watching the webinar recording from beginning to end!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Br10cHS-5Qk" width="320" youtube-src-id="Br10cHS-5Qk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Children Playing with Words</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(iTDi Videos, 2021.08.12)</div><br /><h5 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reference</span></h5><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iTDi Videos. (2021.08.12). Children Playing with Words (Karen Frazier Tsai) [video recording]. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Br10cHS-5Qk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://youtu.be/Br10cHS-5Qk</span></a></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-778de23b-7fff-752f-f009-046a8378f4b6"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-73688286012344289622021-03-15T16:28:00.002+09:002021-03-15T16:54:53.384+09:00A Long Road to Becoming a Language Teacher<p>This post showcases a presentation from the Pigate gathering on March 13, 2021. In that presentation pab presented a sweeping retrospective on 60 years in education.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Questions and reflections are welcome in comments on this post.</p><p style="text-align: right;">[36 words]</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0Kumamoto, Japan32.8032164 130.70793694.4929825638211511 95.551686899999993 61.113450236178842 165.8641869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-9064005205401412392020-12-02T18:18:00.001+09:002020-12-02T18:36:50.249+09:00Neurodiversity: An award-winning poster presentation from JALT 2020<div style="text-align: left;">Alexandra Burke's presentation on <span>Saturday, November 21st, 2020,</span> characterized "the impact of ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, [and] color
[vision] issues and <b>how they affect learning for nearly 12.6 million people in
Japan</b>." It also "cover[ed] ... clues to look for and where to find <b>publicly-available resources</b>" (session description, <a href="https://jalt2020.eventzil.la/session/355">https://jalt2020.eventzil.la/session/355</a> [emphases added]). </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Burke asserted that the understandings and behaviors of teachers "are
the keys to success for students with hidden disabilities" (poster
element). A PDF of the poster is available for download here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://jalt2020.eventzil.la/sessions/1hULjufEe8F2iLobcspJRQYEj7nEkp64KJ8ovlmb.pdf">Neurodiversity, Studying, and Teaching Language</a></li></ul><p>For advice on improving poster presentations in general, please watch psychologist Mike Morrison's videos:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://youtu.be/1RwJbhkCA58">Generation 1 - Create a better research poster in less time ...</a> (2019.03.25), and</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/SYk29tnxASs">Generation 2 - Create more a impactful scientific poster with UX Design tips</a> (2020.07.13). <br /></li></ul></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-42277207791595537272020-03-24T14:45:00.002+09:002020-03-31T09:09:08.704+09:00PIGATE's first entirely online gathering<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post showcases slides from PIGATE's March gathering (2020.03.14). Previews of slide-building in progress were available the week leading up to PIGATE's first entirely online program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The gathering took place in a Zoom meeting room with screen sharing from remote presenters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow-up questions, reflections, and suggestions are welcome in comments on this blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please attribute adoptions or derivations [of the slides] to The PIGATE <span style="font-size: xx-small;">英語授業学研究会</span> 2020.03.14.</span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-60787655071654438252020-02-28T17:55:00.000+09:002020-06-03T17:09:41.793+09:00CRAAP: An acronym to guide web researchThe CRAAP Test for assessing appropriacy of web resources popped up on my radar in a Pinterest suggestion of a graphic:<br />
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gleaned from the Daytona State College Library:<br />
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<li><a href="https://library.daytonastate.edu/reliable/CRAAP">https://library.daytonastate.edu/reliable/CRAAP</a>,</li>
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which in turn apparently adapted content from a library guidance page at California State University, Chico:<br />
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<li><a href="http://libguides.csuchico.edu/LiteratureReviews?p=2822716">http://libguides.csuchico.edu/LiteratureReviews?p=2822716</a>.</li>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-60088139055135363282020-01-22T11:52:00.000+09:002020-01-22T11:52:03.579+09:00Dr. Morrow's presentations from December 2019This post showcases two presentations that Dr. Jeffrey S. Morrow made at the PIGATE gathering on December 14, 2019, on:<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keys to Successful Student Motivation; &</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Successful Pronunciation Teaching.</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These are for attendees to review as well as for the perusal of PIGATE members who had other commitments last month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="389" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRYKR__0KUHkE4GLWjt6qVCzeVE80K-780LHJ2CC-hlhF8kCQFDUfB68XK0BIK_aA/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have questions or suggestions regarding either of those presentations, please feel free to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Post them in comments on this blog post; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Send them in messages to the PIGATE Google Group;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voice them at an upcoming PIGATE gathering (<a href="https://higopigate.blogspot.com/p/calendar-of-events.html">Calendar of Events</a>); or </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Address them directly to Dr. Morrow (contact info. at ends of slide shows).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">[138 words]</span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-52932309000274173422019-12-19T17:43:00.002+09:002019-12-19T17:43:36.670+09:00Motivation matters!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Image source: YouTube, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-yKZ_kCuKBHyeRfePpvuw" style="font-size: medium;">Education Week</a><span style="font-size: small;"> (2019.12.19)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Education Week</i> recently showcased a series of four videos of Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski explaining ways for teachers to foster learner motivation:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/student-motivation-videos/what-teachers-can-do-to-boost-student.html">What Teachers Can Do to Boost Student Motivation</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (2019.12.09).</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The short videos covered "four specific ways to nurture a sense of intrinsic motivation in students" (¶1), namely:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Granting students autonomy,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Applauding effort rather than ability;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cultivating interpersonal relationships, and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Helping students discover the relevance of learning activities.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A list of further readings followed the videos on the <i>Education Week</i> article, and Larry Ferlazzo linked to additional resources in a follow-up in an Education Week Teacher blog post.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2019/12/everything_you_wanted_to_know_about_student_motivation_but_were_afraid_to_ask.html">Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Motivation, But Were Afraid to Ask</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (2019.12.11).</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">[122 words]</span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-59363147981803160982019-10-02T16:25:00.000+09:002019-10-02T16:25:02.421+09:00Online activities and opportunities: Work in progressThe short (16 slide) presentation embedded in this blog post represents on-going endeavours mainly to recover from a massive setback in online resource curation. In a nutshell:<br />
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<i>This presentation provides snapshots of an individual teacher's recent and ongoing professional development endeavours. It reflects problems of ICT use, mainly discontinuation of a free service for educators, and outlines strategies for addressing them with collaborative partners, tools, and venues of choice. It supplements a working paper submitted to PIGATE.</i></blockquote>
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If you have comments or questions with regard either to the content of slides in that short presentation or the gist of the working paper (Beaufait, 2019) submitted to PIGATE prior to its Annual General Meeting last month (2019.09.14), please feel free to spell them out in threadable comments on this post.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beaufait, P. (2019a). Reflection in action: An unavoidable IT transition. <i>PIGATE eigo jugyou gaku kenkyuu-kai kiyou, 26</i> [English language teaching action research group working papers, issue 26], 32-42.</span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-68256006328255384902019-08-05T13:47:00.000+09:002019-10-02T16:26:42.189+09:00Sneak preview of PIGATE's Special Summer Session<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">PIGATE's Special Summer Session (SSS)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="299" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRPLofkpcn8TyEYeMHVeA4bJL84-D3eeR9TU836wgke0yKgbvm6M6oJKNJeQjPncdgAU6n5WW_upMJR/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=30000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tentative schedule (as of 2019.07.05)</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">09:30<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Preparation and sign-in (30 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">10:00<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Opening remarks (10 min.): Paul Beaufait</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">10:10<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IPS, Part 1 (45 min.): English pronunciation challenges for English teachers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">10:55<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break (10 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">11:05<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IPS, Part 2 (45 min): Tactics for teaching oral expression</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">11:50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lunchtime (60 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">12:50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CPS, Part 1 (45 min.): Favorite picture books and stories to share</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">13:35<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>_Kitemiran_¹ and _shitemiran_² sharing time (15 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">13:50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CPS, Part 2 (45 min.): Experience and tips for learning and teaching with stories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">14:35<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break (15 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">14:50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Working Papers (_kiyou_) workshop (45 min.):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reflections, projections, &amp; progress reports;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Preparation and collaboration time; &amp;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Submission guidelines &amp; deadlines.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">15:35<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Session summary: Mr. Nobuyuki Takaki (15 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">15:50<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Closing remarks (10 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Membership matters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newsletter contributions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other announcements:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Annual General Meeting (AGM), 2019.09.14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">16:00<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clean-up (10 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">16:10 Steering committee meeting (20 min.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Presenters and PIGATE members are welcome to attend the committee meeting!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3c4043; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">¹ Why don't you come and see this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3c4043; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">² Why don't you try this and see?</span></span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-30427295674775778962019-07-12T18:45:00.002+09:002019-07-12T18:47:45.988+09:00The Beaufait Collaboratoire: A Google SiteA Google Site that I'm using to reconstitute bits and pieces of new and previous online endeavours, the Beaufait Collaboratoire, grew new pages and subpages today.<br />
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Most notable was a new <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/thebeaufaitcollaboratoire/prodev/educators-corner">Educators' Corner</a>, now a <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/thebeaufaitcollaboratoire/prodev">ProDev</a> subpage. Other additions included a couple of Google Forms for surveys of EnglishCentral (EC) users that I have embedded in <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/thebeaufaitcollaboratoire/ec">EC</a> subpages. I'd linked to the forms previously from the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/thebeaufaitcollaboratoire/tech-tools">Tech. Tools</a> page to replace old wiki resources.<br />
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Please feel free to browse the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/thebeaufaitcollaboratoire/home">Collaboratoire</a>, and let me know in comments <i>on this post</i> if you have any questions or discover any incipient web rot (faulty links).<br />
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As I continue to build and update that site, I'm seeking a communication interface to include there. Something like the threaded comment functionality of Blogger blogs might be ideal. In the meantime, I welcome your suggestions in comments here.<br />
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-19098068920995307302019-07-10T16:53:00.001+09:002019-07-12T18:49:48.624+09:00A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know<span style="font-family: inherit;">In his post, <a href="https://www.teachthought.com/learning/a-visual-summary-the-most-important-learning-theories/?ref=eltbuzz">A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know</a>, Terry Heck displayed a detailed graphic by Richard Millwood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In that post, Heck asserted that "there are dozens of theories that underpin what and how you teach already, and that the better you understand them, the better chance you’ll have to master your current approach and begin to bring new possibilities into your classroom..." (¶4).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Heck then posted brief additional explanations<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> of the concepts in Millwood's graphic. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and in a hypertextual concept map with loads of links to additional resources here:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heck, T. (2019, January 12). A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know [weblog post]. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.teachthought.com/learning/a-visual-summary-the-most-important-learning-theories/">https://www.teachthought.com/learning/a-visual-summary-the-most-important-learning-theories/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Millwood, R. (2019, June 18). Learning Theory [comment on 2013, May 10 weblog post]. Retrieved from <a href="https://blog.richardmillwood.net/2013/05/10/learning-theory/#comment-54999">https://blog.richardmillwood.net/2013/05/10/learning-theory/#comment-54999</a> </span></li>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-55801233807911451652019-06-27T11:00:00.000+09:002019-07-12T16:50:50.336+09:00Revisiting communicative competencies (YouTube recording)This hour-long recording by Dr. Kate Reynolds of Central Washington University's College of Education and Professional Studies[, Chairperson of the Department of Education, Development, Teaching and Learning,] came out about a year ago. It was from a TESOL Teacher Education Interest Section (TEIS) webinar on evolving theories and potential applications of a communicative competence framework for language teaching.<br />
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<b>Recent Discussions on Communicative Competencies</b> </div>
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In that webinar, Dr. Reynolds surveyed "recent developments on the model of communicative competencies and [began to] facilitate an interactive conversation on how teacher educators can use this information" (Abstract, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs1aRTjnwAY">2018.06.26</a>). Though the webinar chat is invisible in the recording, live discussion opened about 33 minutes in. Dr. Reynolds read and summarized chat entries aloud. She then reflected on contributions and issues that arose, and asked clarification and follow-up questions.
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At the end of the webinar, Dr. Reynolds highlighted one of over a dozen selected references for further reading. She also offered to share her PowerPoint slides, and expressed desire to continue discussion in audience-initiated <a href="https://my.tesol.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer?communitykey=cdf55349-1856-44e7-8004-6fae67d80745&tab=digestviewer">TEIS discussion list</a> posts. That's a TESOL members-only venue, so I (Paul) would be happy to see comments from PIGATE reviewers here [on this post].<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reynolds, K. M. (2018, June 26). Frames and reframing: Recent discussions on communicative competencies [Video file]. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs1aRTjnwAY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs1aRTjnwAY</a></span></li>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-77684838193395668582019-06-17T09:13:00.000+09:002019-06-17T09:16:40.680+09:00<h1>
Linguistic paranoia – why is Australia so afraid of languages?</h1>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/misty-adoniou-107235">Misty Adoniou</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-canberra-865">University of Canberra</a></em>
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About 20% of the Australian population speaks a language other than English. In fact, around 250 languages are spoken in homes around the country. This would seem to be cause for celebration. After all, successive governments have spent millions trying to increase the numbers of students studying languages in schools. However there is little connection between the languages taught in schools, and the languages spoken in homes. <br />
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Foreign language learning in schools</h2>
In 2001 the Howard Liberal government set a target of 25% of Year 12 students studying a foreign language. The same target was set by the incoming Rudd Labor government in 2007. In 2014, the new Abbott Liberal government upped the ante <a href="http://ministers.education.gov.au/pyne/opening-address-adelaide-language-festival">to 40% of Year 12 students</a> studying a foreign or classical language within the decade. This was ambitious given that the previous targets of 25% had never been reached. <br />
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Barely 10% of Year 12 students study a language. Yet 20% of the population speaks a language other than English in the home. How does that add up? The answer is governments pay little heed to the languages spoken in Australian homes; they prefer “foreign and classical” languages to “local and community” ones.<br />
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Not all languages are equal</h2>
There is a clear hierarchy of languages in Australia. English is at the top. Next are the “classical” languages like French and German, particularly when learned at school. These are followed by languages deemed useful for Australia’s economic prosperity - e.g. Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese - but only if they are being learned as “foreign” languages. Because that is quite clever, learning a foreign language. <br />
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But if they are languages already spoken in the home, they slip down the hierarchy of languages, into the community languages pile along with about 245 other languages. Somewhere towards the bottom of that community languages pile are the Indigenous languages of Australia, about which <a href="https://theconversation.com/embracing-indigenous-languages-the-kiwis-just-do-it-better-42045">most Australians know nothing</a>. <br />
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The chances of those 245 community languages surviving in Australia are remote. Australia is remarkably adept at wiping out languages. Of the 250 Indigenous languages in existence at the time of British colonisation, only around 20 remain viable today. The languages immigrants bring with them are usually dead within two generations.<br />
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It seems remarkably odd policy to pour millions of dollars into setting consistently unachievable targets for learning foreign languages at school, while simultaneously watching community languages slide into oblivion. <br />
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Is it just linguistic snobbery?</h2>
We always seem more impressed by a native English speaker who has managed to learn another language at school than we are by those who learn their languages at home. <br />
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Everyone was quite impressed by <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rudd-wows-chinese-audience-with-standup-20121021-27zm9.html">ex Prime Minister Rudd’s proficiency in Mandarin</a>, but I expect Senator Dio Wang’s Mandarin runs rings around Mr Rudd’s. I’m guessing Belgian born Finance Minister Mathias Cormann speaks German, Flemish, and perhaps also French. I suppose Senator Nick Xenophon speaks Greek, but perhaps he doesn’t. Maybe his Greek language heritage has been lost, which would be ironic as his surname means “foreign voice”. Does Deputy Opposition leader Tanya Plibersek speak Slovenian? Does the Malaysian born Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Penny Wong speak Malay and Mandarin or Cantonese or Hakka? <br />
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I don’t know. I’ve never heard any of them speak another language, or be reported admirably in the press for their linguistic prowess. They don’t note their bilingualism in their biographies on their websites. Perhaps they’ve lost their heritage languages - or perhaps it’s just not “Australian” to say you speak another language in your home or to your mum and dad. Either scenario is a sad indictment.<br />
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It seems, in Australia, if you learned your second language at school or at university - that’s clever and admirable. If your bilingualism comes from your heritage, we’d prefer to ignore it.<br />
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Multicultural but monolingual</h2>
Australia is generally happy to be multicultural, as long as that just involves some tasty food, and a bit of dance and music at an annual festival. We are definitely not comfortable with being multilingual. We are a country where you are free to speak another language, but preferably in the privacy of your own home or on an overseas holiday. It seems we like our foreign languages to stay that way - foreign. <br />
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Australia is currently in a social and political space where “unity” has overtaken “diversity” as the preferred political discourse. A country that speaks multiple languages in its everyday life seems somehow harder to manage. After all, who knows what they’re saying? A community that speaks foreign languages to foreign people in foreign lands is much more secure. <br />
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It is odd we should be so determined to keep our multilingualism in the closet. For most other countries speaking more than one language is the norm. With so many economic, <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-we-kill-languages-and-fail-our-cleverest-children-29137">cognitive</a>, social and political advantages to multilingualism it seems simultaneously extraordinarily wasteful and absurdly paranoid to not celebrate and nurture the languages spoken in homes all around the country.<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. --><img alt="The Conversation" height="1" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/43236/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important;" width="1" /><!-- End of code. If you don't see any code above, please get new code from the Advanced tab after you click the republish button. The page counter does not collect any personal data. More info: http://theconversation.com/republishing-guidelines --><br />
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/misty-adoniou-107235">Misty Adoniou</a>, Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-canberra-865">University of Canberra</a></em><br />
This article is republished from <a href="http://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/linguistic-paranoia-why-is-australia-so-afraid-of-languages-43236">original article</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.<p>Please attribute to "The PIGATE Blogi" (without quotation marks).</p>
</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-90671690027570765892019-05-30T17:09:00.000+09:002019-06-03T10:47:53.037+09:00PIGATE gathering, 2019.06.08<h2>
PIGATE's June 2019 session</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Fumi Takegami</span></h3>
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Seminar room 10, 5th floor, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Faculty of Administrative Studies office wing; </span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fumi Takegami has extensive teaching experience in schools ranging from elementary to secondary levels, mostly at high school. She is now teaching in the Faculty of Letters at the PUK. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Terry Laskowski also has extensive teaching experience, in his case at university. He now teaches in the Faculty of Letters at Kumamoto University. </span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Together Terry and Fumi will talk about the relationship between theory and practice in teaching. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linking theory to practice helps teachers to better understand why they do what they do in their classrooms. Having this knowledge will better inform teachers regarding their instructional practices. </span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During their workshop session, Fumi and Terry will talk about learning theories going from behaviorism to social constructivism and complementary teaching methods. They will focus in particular on social constructivism and related teaching methods and techniques. </span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Participants will take part in classroom activities. Through active involvement, i.e., active learning, participants will understand the purpose of the activities by experiencing them themselves. They can expect to take part in a jigsaw activity and a task-based problem solving activity.</span></span><br />
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-89046576938182430612019-02-26T11:37:00.000+09:002019-02-28T16:16:16.253+09:00Introducing the EIGO app<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From </span><a href="https://elemenglish.org/login/index.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ElemEnglish.org</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><a href="https://elemenglish.org/login/index.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a73e8; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://elemenglish.org/login/index.php</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been promoting various English education initiatives to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. New English curricula will see 5th and 6th grade elementary school students nationwide studying English as a mandatory subject with double the previous number of allocated classroom hours. Third and 4th grade students nationwide will study English as an ungraded foreign language activity. To be sure, many school districts and individual schools have already made significant increases in the provision of English education for their students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alongside these reforms, however, there is concern that many current and future elementary school teachers may lack sufficient proficiency and/or confidence to most effectively lead students in English language activities. Our app (see: Project team members, below) is an attempt to help teachers learn, practice, and become confident in speaking very basic classroom English language.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As we were already using the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) at our institution, we decided to use this platform to create both a website and an app. We applied in 2014 for a MEXT grant and were awarded funds to begin our project in the following year. The process began with a needs analysis. We made observations at several elementary schools, recording and transcribing teachers’ use of Japanese and English. Based on analysis of this data and current teaching resources, we determined what language would be of greatest benefit to users of our app.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next steps involved creating, piloting and revising content. Groups of teachers, administrators, and teachers-in training (PIGATE attendees included) provided us with valuable feedback that has influenced the final product. Several computer programmers have created and adapted plug-ins specifically for our app. There have been a lot of technical hurdles to overcome, too many to note here, but we are ultimately pleased with our product.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the noteworthy features include animated videos with language in context, drag-and-drop interactive exercises, shadowing practice, and timed and recorded responses (see: Screen snapshots, below). Our greatest hope is that this app will be useful to teachers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rob has had experience teaching English in elementary school, junior high school, university, and in specialized programs both in Japan and in the US. His research interests include computer-assisted language learning (CALL), vocabulary acquisition, and affective factors in the second language classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rob will be presenting the EIGO app. for elementary school English teachers at the PIGATE English language teacher development group's March Session: </span></span></div>
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-25046950507279697612019-02-14T16:41:00.000+09:002019-02-14T17:34:59.341+09:00Differentiating instruction? Let's learn the ropes!<span style="font-size: large;">Ever wonder how to handle individual differences within a single class?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the first of these EdWeek videos, "[v]eteran teachers Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Synieski offer [a few] quick tips...."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the second, Larry offers more ideas for differentiating instruction by adjusting content, processes, and products to suit learners' abilities, interests, and needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If there are other simple strategies that you enjoy using, please feel free to explain them in brief comments on this post.</span><br />
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</div>Paul Beaufaithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2453783863993314667.post-36463354180672698002019-01-14T11:54:00.000+09:002019-01-14T12:32:31.038+09:00The Common Sense Media website: Goodies for parents and educators<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last Saturday, at a monthly gathering (2019.01.12), I mentioned a blog post I'd read recently:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/5-ways-to-block-porn-on-your-kids-devices"><b>5 Ways to Block Porn on Your Kid's Devices</b></a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Topics: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/cellphone-parenting" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: color 0.17s ease-out 0s;">Cellphone Parenting</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-size-adjust: auto;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/healthy-media-habits" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: color 0.17s ease-out 0s;">Healthy Media Habits</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-size-adjust: auto;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/internet-basics" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: color 0.17s ease-out 0s;">Internet Basics</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-size-adjust: auto;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/screen-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: color 0.17s ease-out 0s;">Screen Time</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-size-adjust: auto;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/sex-in-the-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: auto; transition: color 0.17s ease-out 0s;">Sex in the Media</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In that post,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> o</span><span style="font-size: large;">ne of the main points that Caroline Knorr (2019), <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/users/caroline-knorr/bio">Common Sense Media's parenting editor</a>, made was that technological interventions work best in conjunction with ongoing conversations with young learners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That post is just one of the Must Read items displayed in the For Parents section of the <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/">Common Sense Media</a> website, which you can <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/user/register?destination=recommendations&origin=homepage&skip_profile=1&child_age=8&op=Get+started&form_build_id=form-HLTzZLmf3zKmq8yby5QB34nHW6GQ-rwNjHo6o0Tov48&form_id=csm_user_age_stage_selector_form_pane">personalize</a> to suit your family or the ages of students you teach.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Common Sense Media. (2019, January 14). Common Sense MediaⓇ. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/">https://www.commonsensemedia.org/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Knorr, Caroline. (2019, January 7). 5 Ways to Block Porn on Your Kid's Devices [weblog post]. Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/5-ways-to-block-porn-on-your-kids-devices">https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/5-ways-to-block-porn-on-your-kids-devices</a></span></li>
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In a recent post on The Principal of Change blog, George Couros highlighted recommendations for children's screen time (AAP, <a href="https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/news-features-and-safety-tips/Pages/Children-and-Media-Tips.aspx">2018.05.01</a>), and posed three questions to frame thinking about ways to use technology both at home and at school:<br />
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<i>When we look at how we are using technology, we have to ask:</i><br />
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<li><i>Is the way we are using technology building connections or severing them?</i></li>
<li><i>Is this fostering deep learning as well as critical thought and creation, or promoting surface level thinking?</i></li>
<li><i>Are we modeling our learning, balance, and human connection through our use of technology so we can effectively guide our students?</i></li>
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If you have comments or questions about any of the topics in his slides, or reflections on any of the tasks that David presented last month, please feel free either to spell them out in comments on this post, or to voice them at the next monthly PIGATE gathering–this coming Saturday, 13 October, 2018.<br />
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