https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh Embracing Language Diversity in Your Classroom en-us 2018-09-26 17:53:33 UTC 2023-06-29 03:20:08 UTC hello@padlet.com carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/286183465 2018-09-26 17:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/286183465 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/286183726 Hi  
I'm Carmela Alberghina , I ve been teaching English for 20 years, in a lower secondary school in Piazza Armerina a lovely town Sicily in the South of Italy. I love my work and my students . I'm an eTwinner and often work on the eTwinning projects. I love professional courses they are for me valid support to become a better teacher and be closer to my students.]]> 2018-09-26 17:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/286183726 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287002311 Start My course
Hi I'm a teacher of English in a  lower secondary school. Today in my school we have just celebrated The European Day of Languages and  I invited my students to think about the importance of learning foreign languages. Some of them said that  speaking foreign languages it's very important  not only to be closer  to different cultures and understand them  but also for their future jobs. I can add that  it helps students to get responsible and self confident citizens of the world.]]> 2018-09-28 15:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287002311 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287004478

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ”
Nelson Mandela
Photo Mosaic with course participants to celebrate cultural heritage (not compulsory)

]]> 2018-09-28 15:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287004478 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287008038 Teaching English in a lower secondary school gives me the opportunity t o understand what my students need to learn a new languages with structures and communicative functions completely different from their native language. So I try to make this process easier following their rithms of learning, associating the study with plays or pratical activities. Digital tools or projects in eTwinning give me a great support: they work in a stimulating and funny way.]]> 2018-09-28 15:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287008038 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287013023 I always try to associate learning English with some fun or pratical activities for example food and cooking, body parts with physical exercices and so on . Etwinning projects and the use of digital tools give my students the opprtunity to work in an envolving and funny  way as they want to cooperate  and share their competences with foreign students]]> 2018-09-28 15:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287013023 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287024468 European Day of Languages

Save the date!

This year the European Day of Languages is happening on 26th September

]]> 2018-09-28 15:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287024468 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287599518 Being a teacher of English in an Italian school I know what are the difficulties that Italian students have in learning a foreign language and so when the students are from aforign counries I konw that they live this problem  in a serious way, so I try to get them proud of their mother language and sometimes I suggest them to teach some special communicative functions to their classmates.]]> 2018-10-01 13:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287599518 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287600844 I completely agree, in fact, as I said in the previuos activity, sometimes I learn from my foreign students appreciating the diversity of their language, encouraging them to show it. For example when I had Chinese students in my classroom they taught us the ideaograms, The result was  funny and useful .]]> 2018-10-01 13:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287600844 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287602923 In order to encourage their self confidence and get them easily integrate in the classroom I think that the use of students' native  languages  should have some aims, for example talking trying to find out similiraties or differences between the diverse languages and use them like stimole to deep the learning activity.]]> 2018-10-01 13:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287602923 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287604291 In my lesson sometimes I start inviting students to talk about the traditions of thei countries trough pratical examples : Proverbs could be a useful link because wisdom of people is similar all over the world and they are very helpful  or tonguetwisters too.]]> 2018-10-01 13:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287604291 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287606941 2018-10-01 13:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/287606941 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290325967 I teach English in a lower secondary school and Italian Educational Programms don' t has any ClIL activitiies , so I don't have any esperiences of CLIL. I think it is a very useful practice and I like teaching using it. ]]> 2018-10-08 14:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290325967 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290332083 Even if CLIL in Italian Lower secondary school isn't integrated as an official proogramm I sometimes during my lesson use it. For example when my students have to learn body parts we go to the gym  I give the instructions in English and they do exercices . It si a funny  and motivating method]]> 2018-10-08 14:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290332083 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290342580 When my students work in  e Tiwnning projects they usually learn to use different digital tools so they integrate the topics of learning with digital products and English competences. For example in a project about their town they created an ebook where they presented it, its history, its monuments  and so on and then created quizzes on it for their partners using Kahoot. ]]> 2018-10-08 15:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290342580 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290366115 I often use digital tools:
Padlet
 Prezi,
Animoto,
PosteritWalls
Canva for poster, and Canva Mind Map,
Kizoa, 
Story jumper
MagdMaz
Voki
Thinglink,
Kahoot and Quizziz
Goggledoc,
Worditart,
Zeemap]]> 2018-10-08 15:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/290366115 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/293891062 I think that it is a great project  beacuse students are invited to immagine an  to live on a imaginary island of Santa Claus  improving their English language skills by writing a story about the adventures of an elf ,.
I like it as i think has the same aims of this course and the digital tools they used.
http://englishlearningfriends.weebly.com/]]> 2018-10-17 14:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/293891062 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/293925132 https://v.gd/2DtOfC ]]> 2018-10-17 15:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/293925132 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294448742 Very useful activity, My students celebrate the EDL by creating a world map of"Saying hello" in a lot of language. I think that they created an International Language Passport.]]> 2018-10-18 16:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294448742 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294452526 I have never had the same  situation of the video but in a n etwinnig project we are trying to create a multilingual dictionary using as common language English. The prodict will be an e book by using the tool Story jumper.]]> 2018-10-18 16:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294452526 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294461300 TeachMeet on Wednesday 17 October, at 17:00 CET]]> 2018-10-18 16:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294461300 carmela_alberghina https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294684627 2018-10-19 04:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carmela_alberghina/64e5dy8tfkkh/wish/294684627