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Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competence with Documentary Film in Spanish
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Hertel, Tammy Jandrey; Harrington, Stasie – Hispania, 2015
The 2007 MLA report "Foreign Language and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," with its call to institutions of higher education to reexamine their curricula and include more in-depth cultural content into all courses, reminded foreign language educators of the important goal of helping students gain…
Descriptors: Spanish, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Films
Using the SIOP Model for Effective Content Teaching with Second and Foreign Language Learners
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Kareva, Veronika; Echevarria, Jana – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
In this paper we present a comprehensive model of instruction for providing consistent, high quality teaching to L2 students. This model, the SIOP Model (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol), provides an explicit framework for organizing instructional practices to optimize the effectiveness of teaching second and foreign language learners.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Video-Based Short Comment Writing Task
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Pino-Silva, Juan – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Composing from sources may no longer be the exclusive domain of reading-to-write activities. The ever-increasing presence of video technology and broadcasting in academic settings could place listening-to-write tasks on a similar footing. This article describes a listening-to-write task, the video-based short comment, which (1) uses video as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Critical Thinking, Portfolio Assessment, Videotape Recordings