Great article, Alicia. It made me realize that, as a Dutch language teacher, we spend so little time on listening techniques. I have to think about how to change that.
Another great read Alicia. The numbers around audiobooks are surprising to me, podcasting I have felt/seen the momentum.
I love a good paperback novel for pure pleasure reading or reading on a Kindle to highlight and have highlights sync to notes apps to have any room for audiobooks.
I do want to start listening to more of the podcasts I subscribe to in an app, maybe check them out on Spotify too.
Nice piece! I would be interesting in learning more about how you think this shift informs your practice as a teacher of modern language.
When I took a language course in college, I was required to spend a set number of hours per week in the "language lab" using cassette tapes to complement the reading I was doing. It seems to me the world we live and learn in now has a much richer set of resources for language learners, maybe even to the extend that reading is less important than listening when learning a second language.
What I try to do is show students all options and let them try it to see if it helps their learning. And yes, multimodal inputs go further with most than others - so, reading means listening and following along in the page. Unfortunately we don’t have audio versions of textbooks, which would be a game changer.
Great article, Alicia. It made me realize that, as a Dutch language teacher, we spend so little time on listening techniques. I have to think about how to change that.
Another great read Alicia. The numbers around audiobooks are surprising to me, podcasting I have felt/seen the momentum.
I love a good paperback novel for pure pleasure reading or reading on a Kindle to highlight and have highlights sync to notes apps to have any room for audiobooks.
I do want to start listening to more of the podcasts I subscribe to in an app, maybe check them out on Spotify too.
Thanks Patrick!
Nice piece! I would be interesting in learning more about how you think this shift informs your practice as a teacher of modern language.
When I took a language course in college, I was required to spend a set number of hours per week in the "language lab" using cassette tapes to complement the reading I was doing. It seems to me the world we live and learn in now has a much richer set of resources for language learners, maybe even to the extend that reading is less important than listening when learning a second language.
What I try to do is show students all options and let them try it to see if it helps their learning. And yes, multimodal inputs go further with most than others - so, reading means listening and following along in the page. Unfortunately we don’t have audio versions of textbooks, which would be a game changer.