Workshop given by Ria De Wilde (Be) and Alice Micallef (Mt) at the eTwinning Conference in Budapest. 01-04-2011

1. eTwinning conference 2011Budapest Workshop: Learning a second language through eTwinning Ria De Wilde (Be) Alice Micallef (Mt)

3. in the Flemish part: in Poperinge, near to the French border

4. French = second language

5. eTwinning projects since 2005, in French, one in Spanish

7. Activities to motivate the students : use a socialnetworkorthe neweTwinningTwinSpace Until last year: Ning / New TwinSpace This school year: Grouply / New TwinSpace Tools used for collaboration: Blogs Wikis Embed videos (YouTube/Vimeo/…) Embed PPT (slideshare) …

8. Secondlanguagelearning:ourfirstaim: learn the foreignlanguage! Competences: Writing Reading Listening Speaking

9. Secondlanguagelearning:smallprojects <-> big projectsintegration in the curriculum Projects: Eurodrawing Mot de passe: CYBER ESPACE.

11. Use Windows Movie MakerResponsibility of the students! Fun! A little bit of fear! Real audience!

12. Activities to motivate the students : write a story together and use a WIKI Planète @dos La Cyberclasse EUropéenne The Quest for the European Grail

13. Activities to motivate the students : the students discuss about the project in a FORUM Project:La CyberclasseEUropéenne.

14. Activities to motivate the students : the students prepare a quiz and publish it in a BLOG Project: Notre fabuleuse histoire européenne.

15. Activities to motivate the students : Present historic figures, choose 2 figures of the partners and make a video of them. The presentations are uploaded on Slideshare and embedded in the TwinSpace. The videos are uploaded on Vimeo and will also be embedded in the TwinSpace.

16. Activities to motivate the students : the students write a story based on pictures taken by the students. Project: 10x10x10

17. Activities to motivate the students : the students write a song together and publish the performance. Project: The Quest for the European Grail.

18. Activities to motivate the students : -create a Voki -record the voice of the students with Voxopop Projects: Mot de passe: CYBER ESPACE. Bon.PlanNet

19. Alice Micallef Language teaching and learning in Malta Teaching German as a foreign language. Coordinator for German as a foreign language.

20. Creating situations for learningbeyond the classroom walls eTwinning tasks integrated within / as an extension of classroom activities. Twinspace Wiki Forum

21. Learning the language – the intercultural dimension of language learning Twinspace - E-Mail What do we work on? About our life in Malta and Germany. Integrating classroom content with student task objectives.

22. Our partner class in Germany Project work – collaborating with the partner class

23. The travel guide- Project work Writing about places to visit in Malta / Germany A cultural , a historical and a place for entertainment Present a place to your partner on the twinspace Ask for information Help your eTwinning partners to write in the target language / your mother tongue.. Present a ‘travel guide’ with the information collected, about the authors, and the students providing the information. DER REISEFÜHRER

24. Individual and group planning

25. an element of trust ...information gap activities ..sources of information My favourite place in Berlin An interesting place in Berlin is the ……………….. It is an entire quarter built from scratch after 1995, in place of the Berlin wall which had divided the city for years.

26. Collaborative work

27. Wiki – reflecting on language learning - collaborating and constructing .. Continuation of group work started in class Input from target language speakers. Proofreading and correcting each others’ work.

28. Extension of group work – class wiki

29. A community of learning – class forum Hallo. Ich bin Sarah. Ich habe diese Webseite gefunden und sie ist toll. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/german/Aisfor.shtml Eine interessane Webseite ...hier kann man Texte finden ...und viel mehr.http://www.deutschlern.net/Und hier kannst du ein Thema aussuchen und Wortschatz wiederholen ....oder etwas Neues lernen....auch wenn du italienisch nicht verstehst.http://ospitiweb.indire.it/ictavagnacco/deutsch/Hallo! Ich bin Rebecca. Ich habe diese Übungen gefunden:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/german/readingf/

31. Language learning aims set by the teacher.

32. Language learning tasks set by teacher and students.

34. eTwinning - learner attitudes to language learning. Motivation to learn the language. The role of the language being learned – students’ attitude to language learning. Need to learn the language – long and short term aims. Working on various competencies–starting from what students can do with the language / creating a space within which to use the language through authentic situations.

35. eTwinning activities to share A task set Within the language lesson/ over a number of lessons Target language speakers/ native tongue speakers Main language aims Collaboration with classmates / with partner class Learning outcomes

36. Discussion in small groups:Which activity is very useful for second language learning? Write it on the yellow post-it note.Propose another useful activity you have experience with. Write it on the green post-it note.