I personally enjoyed Absolutely Intercultural podcast. I listened and watched several ones from here, and liked absolutely intercultural 132 episode a lot.
While learning abroad right now, I've thought that language learning is really related with culture of that language. Without knowing the culture, there are lots of chances that I misuse the language. So, I wondered how I could teach my future students language as well as culture. This episode gave me a hint. In addtion, this episode introduced many interesting features like translating animal sound or learning language using games.
I want to let my students hear this episode first and share their thoughts or reflections about this episode. I think many students can get a glimpse of importance of cultural understanding while hearing this episode. After my students realize the necessity of cultural background, then I can give them some assignments as a group to search the cultural differences between Asian countries and English-speaking countries and make the result as a podcast like this episode. Of couse my students' podcast can be about 5~7 minutes and not as long as 20 minutes like this one.
I think I can use this podcast site as a source of developing intercultural knowledge of my students, whenever I find good ones from here.
Showing posts with label Language Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language Learning. Show all posts
Friday, April 29, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Kirsten Winkler's blog - Interview with Michael Schutzler
I like hearing what other people are saying. I found a post including interview in Kirsten Winkler's blog, Kwestions for Michael Schutzler - the eBay of Language Learning. In this post, she talked with Michael Schutzler, the CEO of Livemocha. I found personally this site is interesting for language learning. People are learning language through the communication with people from different countries. I want to know his thought. They are saying about Livemocha's new business and how this site is helping people who want to learn language. This interview was interesting and I enjoyed it.
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