Interpretive
"Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics."
(World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages)
(World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages)
- Interpretation of what the author, speaker, or producer what the receiver of the message to understand
- One-way communication with no recourse to the active negotiation of meaning with the writer, speaker, or producer.
- Interpretation differs from comprehension and implies the ability to read (or listen or view) "between the line," including understanding from within the cultural mindset or perspective.
- Reading (websites, stories, articles), listening (speeches, messages, songs), or viewing (video clips) of authentic materials.
Google Forms (Link)
Google Forms can be used in many ways to assess interpretive skills, both with reading and listening activities. Students can be assigned either a specific reading or can be linked to an audio or video file. Then, a Google Form can be administered in order to collect student responses in one, convenient spreadsheet.
From the Spreadsheet, the data can be analyzed by clicking "Forms -> Summary of Responses". This will give users a pie chart of the different responses for multiple choice questions or a list of responses for short answer questions. This is a quick and easy way to compile data for each assessment and make a quick visualization of student progress, which could be very useful for documenting SLO growth. On the right there are two examples of Forms being used with either a reading or a YouTube video to capture student responses. Make sure that one of the questions on the form is "Name" if your forms are not set up to automatically collect student information (if you are unsure, just add a question for name to make sure you receive that info). For short answers or multiple choice answers, a time saving script called Flubaroo (link) can be run. This will automatically grade students' responses and calculate scores. The Flubaroo website has many useful tutorials and examples on how to use the technology. |
Doctopus (Link)
Doctopus is a script that works with Google Sheets and other Google Drive programs to distribute and share assignments and files with your students. After initial set-up work, which involves creating spreadsheets with your students' Google addresses, the script can be utilized to take a template file (like a Doc with a reading followed by assessment questions/activities or a link to an authentic audio source with assessment activities) and distribute it for each student to receive his or her own copy.
From there, you can also program Doctopus to create unique folders for each student, which will allow you to keep all documents for specific students in one location. This will allow you to analyze the growth of each student individually if that suits the analysis needed for an SLO. For more open ended assignments that need rubrics, check out the companion app "Goobric" (link) that allows you to use rubrics right inside of Google Docs.
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Click here for a great tutorial on how to set-up Doctopus from Google Guru Kevin Brookhouser.
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Blubbr.tv (Link)
Blubbr.tv is an interesting site that could be used in class to track SLOs or used as homework for extra practice. Students can watch a segment of a YouTube video and then respond to a multiple choice question. Additionally, as it is a very appealing format for students, it is reminiscent to the video games and online quizzes that our students use in their free time. This is one great step to gamifying a classroom.
This can be used as practice for listening skills or in class as assessments where students can talk the tests during a class lab time with headphones. They can then screenshot their scores and send them to you, allowing for an easy way to capture the student data. A fun and useful aspect to this technology is it makes it easy to showcase to administration and community what your students can DO! These quizzes are easy to have pulled up for parents and administrators to see, so that they can visually see the progress and work of students. Click here for a good example Blubbr quiz. |
Authentic Interpretive Sources
Reading-International Children’s Digital Library (en.childrenslibrary.org)
-Mary Glasgow Scholastic Magazines (http://maryglasgowplus.com/) Teacher section online has many more articles than the physical magazines -Veintemundos (http://www.veintemundos.com/en/) -Spanish 4 Teachers (Spanish4Teachers.org) -TPRS Publishing Readers (www.tprstorytelling.com/) -Cervantes Institute (http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/) -BBC Mundo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/) -“Y me cuentas” (http://yquemecuentas.blogspot.com/) Literature blog for kids -Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna (http://moderna.eb.com/ee/home) -Achieve 3000 (http://www.achieve3000.com/) If your school subscribes... and they should, it also offers current events in many different reading levels, so powerful for Literacy classes too. -Newseum Today’s Front Pages (http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp) - Infografías en Castellano (http://infografiasencastellano.com/) - Tecla (http://www.mecd.gob.es/reinounido/publicaciones-materiales/publicaciones.html) Online magazine written for Spanish students |
Listening-Audiolingua (http://www.audio-lingua.eu/)
-Inocar (http://www.inocar.mil.ec/) Ecuadorian Maritime Weather Reports -Spanish Proficiency Exercises @ UofT-Austin (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/) - http://www.audiria.com (YouTube aggregator) -BBC GCSE Spanish prep videos (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/spanish/listeningf/) -News in Slow Spanish (http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/) -Zachary Jones (http://zachary-jones.com/) Music and Culture -BBC Mundo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/) -Billboard (billboard.com) Global Charts -El Mundo de Birch (http://elmundodebirch.wikispaces.com/NECTFL+Workshop+2012) Includes a sortable spreadsheet with hundreds of songs with description of grammar, topic, and vocab. - Cocineros Argentinos (http://www.cocinerosargentinos.com/home.html) Hundreds of cooking videos and recipes from Argentina - Profes de ELE (Español como Lengua Extranjera) (http://www.profedeele.es/2013/11/cortos-aula-ele-recursos-propuestas.html) Ideas for incorporating short films and video clips in your class - in Spanish |
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