Objectifs: This week you will
1. describe the activities that you usually do and ask someone about his/her routine.
2. use verbs that describe daily routines in the first person.
Activities
1. Daily Routines. Listen to the vocabulary. Practice and memorize it.
2. La routine. Listen and repeat. See how many words you are able to say correctly. Test your memory.
3. Une chanson to learn vocabulary. Music is commonly use to learn vocabulary. Try this song and see if it helps you remember vocabulary. Are you familiar with the original song?
4. Le quotidien. Study the vocabulary, particularly what applies to you.
5. You will make a list of ten sentences about your daily routine and ask someone who is fluent in French. You may want to do this activity with another French learners.
Vous: Je me réveille à sept heur tous les matins, et toi?
Votre ami(e): Moi? Je me réveille à cinq heur.
Devoirs: This week, you will reflect on your language learning process, particularly in how your brain has reacted to the new vocabulary, particularly the one you attempted to learn this week. You will discuss if teachers need to give students all the verb conjugations or if they should allow more interaction among learners using the first person and a simple question with "and you? (et toi?). You may also discuss how many words you have been able to learn to say correctly in French and to use in real contexts. You should comment on weather or not you have found yourself making cheat sheets to have right in front of you while you make the videos. Have you written the script and then read it aloud? Why is that? Why do learners tend to do that? How has your memory impacted your learning process? What connections can you make to ideas discussed by scholars in the readings or videos?
You can make the reflection in writing or on a video.
Bonjour Everyone!
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Merci,
Priscilla Sambrano
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTvka5AVymeyFZD4uav1T5TmTgbHoEIxO4IjoDq1_cE/edit?usp=sharing
Great points. I would have to disagree with some of your ideas, particularly with the comparison between writing down things as what actors do.
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ReplyDeleteFor the material this week, I surprisingly learned it fairly quickly. The daily routines video and the song were very helpful. I like how the daily routines video included pictures and included the text along with the sound and repeated each sentence multiple times. The song helped as well, it was easier for me to memorize it that way.
Verb conjugations tend to confuse me. I prefer using the first person and to be given simple questions. I do prefer to work alone. I have anxiety, so I can sometimes get anxious when working with new people and then I have trouble concentrating because of my anxiety. I don’t use cheat sheets when making video recordings. Before I start recording, I do listen to the videos, write down how the sentences sound phonetically and then recite them multiple times. I do this because I am a reading/writing and audio learner so I combine all of those aspects when I study the material. When I do that, it helps me to retain the information.
The words/sentences that I have remembered so far are listed below:
Bonjour
Sah vah
Sah vah bien
Como tu ta pelle
Quel est votre nom
Ou habitez vou
Tu Habites ou
Quel age avez vou
Je suis
Je m’ apelle
Piscine
Plage
Lave
Very good points, particularly about anxiety.
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ReplyDeleteWhy is it that making mistakes is considered failing? Aren't mistakes part of the learning process?
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ReplyDeleteCopy and paste the link below to read my reflection for this week. Thank you!
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During this week’s exercise I realized that there is something about the videos which allow for the repetition of the content, followed by the proper pronunciation which is very helpful to me. As a visual and hands-on learner, I greatly benefit from seeing and doing versus just hearing and repeating. Internalizing this weeks material was more involved. Some words that caught my attention this week were as “reveille”, “leve” and “lave”, “dejune”, “dine”, and “piscine. The reason these words stand out is because I have used L1 and L2 transfer to understand and pick these out of a conversation. I quickly connected “Reveille” with an early morning activity as this is the first thing that takes place in every military installation to begin the day.
ReplyDeleteSee here: http://www.dcmilitary.com/andrews_gazette/news/reveille-retreat-etiquette/article_1b74e56b-5dd2-5ca7-a07a-92f6a88154e9.html
With that, I still tend to confuse “leve” and “lave” as I tend to see both as my L1 and sometimes use “leve” as “lave” since in spanish the word “lave” means “wash”. I found “Dejune” as intriguing, the spanish word for breakfast is “desayuno” and to hear it referred to as lunch is striking me as odd, I still want to use it as the word for breakfast.
Regarding verb conjugations, in my opinion I think it is important for teachers to practice them with their students. I recall this during my ESL classes in Colombia and USA and I still have vivid memories of the memorization process that went into these thru repetition, this may be because of my learning style. Since I cannot see the words or have the ability to connect them to anything when I hear or “interact” with someone in French, I do not believe I would learn as effectively and would ultimately become more frustrated learning that way.
I did attempt to make a “cheat” sheet on how to pronounce words during the first video I posted but learned that attempting to write the pronunciations in a language I understood was not going to work for me as much as repetition. To be fair, one of the videos we watched in module 5 suggested “scrapping the foreign alphabet” and using familiar phonetics, hence why I tried it.
I have noticed that longer sentences stress me. Usually 4 to 5 words are what I can repeat and recall without making new mistakes after a time lapse.
I recall more from seeing, associating and repeating (talking while using my hands) than from writing meanings on paper. I need to see it while saying it and memorizing it, but writing it out afterwards simply makes things more complicated.
I can so far relate to age (and interest) as being a barrier in L2 acquisition. I was not aware I would be attempting to learn a new language when I signed up for this course, and as such do not feel as motivated to learn it as I would one which required my survival. At my age and level of interest I fell I am less likely to adapt new meaning, I still struggle with my pronunciations and recall, while my 8 year old son this week started repeating the things I was saying in week 4 when he heard me attempt to repeat routines. He has NEVER seen the language, he has only heard me say it and has understood some of its meaning from my acting it out, he also internalized it without the slightest effort.
Amazing reflection. Thank you.
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