I think the following should be included in an A1-level swedish class.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
The first step
So, this week I am going out on a venture to start building my online swedish lessons. My plan is to start out by familiarising myself with the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). According to Wikipedia the CEFR divides learners into three divisions, which is divided into six levels, A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2. I would like to start out with the A1-level. Once again according to Wikipedia this level is constituted by that the learner "can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help."
I think the following should be included in an A1-level swedish class.
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I think the following should be included in an A1-level swedish class.
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Anna
ReplyDeleteJust checking to see if your Voki is there! I just put mine into a gadget. Then chose HTML/Java from the choices given. Then I pasted in the code copied from the Voki site.
A question. Are you going to do any teaching of Swedish on your blog? I was just wondering about whether you would? We could then learn something simple say each week. Just a thought. I am just introducing http://www.cinchcast.com
to my class for audio. You could use that. I don't want you to do that if you are not interested. But I know I would use it in my classroom if you did.
Kathryn
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ReplyDeleteThe content seems to be very reasonable and would be a good way to start a conversation and to practice more outside the school hours for the students or learners. I was just wondering if the content should be the same for all ages and background.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience of language learning i came to realize that age plays an important role in the learning process. If you are younger, it is much easier to learn all aspects of the language at the same time:reading, listening, writing, and speaking plus grammar and exceptions and so on. When you are older, it is not possible to absorb all the information at once. But it is possible to develop a method to filter the information needed (this is if you already have learned some other foreign languages).
So my questions are:
1) Are you thinking for all ages and backgrounds?
2) Should all the A1 levels be the same for all ages (20-40)? And backgrounds?
3) How much grammar should be thought? And how much exercise? This could be a point where the age differences can be covered. (more grammar for young, more exercise for older)
4) For a person at her 30's (being me ;)), what is the best and fastest way to learn a new language?
More about experience:
The 6 months course I took at Göteborgs University was great. But I never got perfect. May be it was because of my surrounding and not a constant Swede environment. I also have problems with different dialects. Skannian is basically impossible.
Looking forward to more learning language tips
Mandana
@kathryn: yes I am going to do some teaching. I will put in a new spot, since I want to do my reflecting and discussing here.
ReplyDelete@Mandi: thanks for the comment! You are right - there are a lot of things to take into account. My plan was from the start that I would mainly try to attract german learners, but I think I will have to go for english learners as well, as I have already had some requests :) The thing with the age groups - I have to think about that. And when it comes to A1, I think it is really just an introduction to the language, so for starters I am not going to put too much focus on grammar.
By the way your swedish is much better than my fârsi (I even had to look up what it was spelled like ...).
Anna
ReplyDeleteGreat. Tweet your first lesson and we will check it out!
Kathryn