In-Class activity:
A) Watch the Youtube file "One Semester of Spanish Love Song."
Do a quickwrite of 100 words or more about the prompt: "What did you learn about teaching an L2 language from the Youtube file 'One Semester of Spanish Love Song'?"
B)Today - while we are awaiting the survey results coming in - we are going to assess our own personal READABILITY level measured by the Fry graph.
The reading of the handout which was due today explained who Fry was, what the graph assesses, how the procedure goes, and what readability really is. You also have the blog summary which gives you a detailed account.
Now, your TASK is to create your own Fry graph. Use the following link to review the procedure, and draw a colored bullet on the handout I gave you at the place where your own readability score lies.
For this assessment, you will need three 100-words-samples of your previous writing.
Where do we get those from?
1) Your first 100-words-sample will be one of your previously published blog comments. Just cut any of your comments out of the blog, paste it into words, and cut it off after having counted 100 words. Then, perform the steps mentioned on your handout from Monday. (This sample will probably have a less high readability level, since most student don't consider blogs "academic writing," and pay less attention to word choice, syntax, vocabulary, flow, and sentence length.)
2) Your second 100-words-sample should come from the finished parts of your research essay. You can either take your abstract, if it has 100 or more words, or parts of your Lit Review or other subheadings. Just count 100 words in a row, and perform the steps mentioned on the handout. (This sample is expected to have a very high readability level, because our research essays are aimed at a professional audience.)
3) Your third 100-words-sample will come from the quickwrite which we did at the beginning of the lesson. Your prompt was: "What did you learn about teaching an L2 language from the Youtube file 'One Semester of Spanish Love Song'?" (Well, this sample should show your average readability, when you don't try to sound 'academic,' and you don't talk down because it is 'just a blog'...) Perform the usual steps.
Write your name on your Fry graph entry and submit it to your instructor!
When you're done with this little assessment exercise and still have time, you can continue working on points 6+12 (Lit Review, and Annotated Bibliography) for your research essay, or create your own "new thread" for our blog, or answer to the interesting new threads opened by others!!!
HOMEWORK for Friday:
Have your points 1-9, as well as 6+12 completely finished. We are going to edit our previously created graphs on Friday by typing in the correct numbers resulting from our surveys. Then, we'll complete the research essay in an in-class workshop Friday and next Monday by analyzing our three graphs, and putting the last results in our abstracts, the 'result' part, and the conclusion.
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I thought the youtube file was pretty funny. I think it was parodying the fact that most first level foreign language classes focus way too much on vocabulary, sentence structure be damned. I do remember being in French class and having a jumbled knowledge of random words, but never any real working knowledge of the language. There didnt really even seem to be any rhyme or reason in the words that we learned. I probably would be unable to count to 10 because I wouldnt know what someone was saying when they asked me what 2 + 2 was in a different language. Probably a better idea when teaching students a new language is to put the new words in the context of a whole sentence. I took 4 whole years of French and I probably couldnt remember how to
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