April 26, 2017
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Note: Currently I am on a self-funded leave until September 2017 – so I am not blogging regularly. Language Sensei will be back – refreshed & ready to go – with new posts in late summer. In the meantime…. I … Continue reading
May 27, 2014
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What if you only had 1 day in a famous city/area in your Target Language (TL) country? Where would you go, what would you do? This is the premise for my “Visit to Kyoto” activity with my Yr 3 Japanese … Continue reading
May 5, 2014
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I’ll admit that when I first started I thought it was taking way more time to mark online than it was on paper. So, as more of my students opt to hand things in electronically, I’ve been working on streamlining … Continue reading
February 11, 2014
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I am trying to expand choice in homework. At times this is in what you do to show/demonstrate your learning. The other way is in ‘how’ you choose to complete the work. This semester I am experimenting with my Japanese … Continue reading
March 12, 2013
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What is ‘authentic’? According to the Oxford Dictionary it is something that is “genuine”, “accurate”, “based on facts or reliable”. There’s a big push for ‘authentic resources’ these days in the MFL classroom. And there should be. I want my … Continue reading
August 20, 2012
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While teacher websites appear to be more popular, I have many colleagues who lament the fact that, halfway through a semester, many of their students have never found it. In order to ensure that my students at least know mine … Continue reading
May 8, 2012
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While desperately looking for statistics for a unit on Travel I realized that I was ignoring both a source of information (my classes), and a powerful tool for both gathering data and sparking discussion. So off to Google Docs and … Continue reading