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		<title>Class Activities: Audio Diary</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/class-activities-audio-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 06:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a common homework assignment or part of the so-called on-going assessment? Getting your students to write a diary is a pretty safe bet. We&#8217;ve all requested it and most students will deliver.
The diary is used as a reflection of general speech and trying to get the student to find their own voice in their L2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Materials: The Dictionary Debate</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/study-materials-the-dictionary-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone owns one.. at least one. Or at the very least, has access to one. People that don&#8217;t even study languages own one. Dictionary play a pretty major role in the lives of people of all ages. They&#8217;re set a standard for us to follow&#8230; sometimes we disagree, and sometimes we all get along. So how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Activities: Dictation with Speaking</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/05/class-activities-dictation-speaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 02:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an activity that incorporates three skills in one: listening, writing and speaking&#8230; with some reading thrown in if you twist it a little bit.
The steps are pretty simple, it&#8217;s simple to incorporate and easy to control.

use a recording of a conversation with the question parts removed&#8230; so basically you are playing a one side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accent Training for the Teacher?</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/accent-training-for-the-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/accent-training-for-the-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many that are involved in language &#8211; teachers and learners both - are hung up on the pronunciation aspects of things. Most of these people focus on the learner and how to improve their accent in their target language, and this is something that a lot of people are interested in. It&#8217;s the old ultimate attainment argument. Everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Materials: LingQ</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2010/04/study-materials-lingq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First in the series of looking at study materials is going to be LingQ.
LingQ is the brainchild of Steve Kaufmann (who you can find on my Blogroll over there &#8212;-&#62; &#8230;and down a bit). Steve speaks a number of languages very well and the site is very much a mirror of his own preferred learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Culture</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/11/teaching-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture in the classroom.. is this something that the students need or want? This argument can very much go both ways and much of it relies on what exactly your students want, but one model for the classroom isn&#8217;t likely to please everyone&#8230; as you&#8217;re not doubt aware.

On the one hand we have the ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Pronunciation?</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/10/which-pronunciation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure as language teachers that this thought goes through our head a fair bit. It&#8217;s not a difficult decision for most languages since there is the standard. And yes, while there are varying dialects and accents, there is typically the one golden standard that we can revert to. Let our students fall back on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L1 Tests, L2 Setting</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/10/l1-tests-l2-setting/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2009/10/l1-tests-l2-setting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Teachers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://languagebubble.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure if you&#8217;ve been a teacher for any length of time you will have stumbled more than once at creating a valid and reliable test for your classroom. The question is, why are we always struggling along attempting to reinvent the wheel? Countless people before us have researched and implemented successful assessments for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needs Analysis</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/10/needs-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2009/10/needs-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://languagebubble.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a teacher it is ultimately up to us to decide what our students should be learning&#8230; but on the other hand, it&#8217;s also up to the student to let the their teachers know what they could be learning. This is where needs analysis comes into play.

Teachers aren&#8217;t mind readers as much as we pretend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zone Of Proximal Development</title>
		<link>http://languagebubble.com/2009/09/zpd/</link>
		<comments>http://languagebubble.com/2009/09/zpd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Zone of Proximal Development is a concept that was introduced by Lev Vygotsky and is still one of the foundations for educational development together with Piagetian theory. I&#8217;m personally a big fan of the Zone of Proximal Development and it&#8217;s little brother, scaffolding. Whether this is teacher-initiated or self-guided scaffolding it doesn&#8217;t matter&#8230; finding [...]]]></description>
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