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Eric could you be a bit more specific about the “replace all” part of cutting and pasting of the accents?
That frequency counter requires you get rid of accents or else it will divide a word in 2.
e.g. “comía” becomes “com” and “a.”
So do a search for letters with an accent and “replace all” with the letter without an accent.
e.g. search for “á” and replace all with “a.”
That’s a lot of work for us Frenchies, who gave themselves an extra big helping of accents when they created their language.
Thank you Eric. Between this excellent suggestion and the one Michele offers about kids making their own short MT clips, we have two strategies that can definitely be used right now at the end of the year when we are running low on ammo.
I wonder what others are doing to fill the April and May voids.
I got this nice quote from my man, Paul Nation (2005, p.26):
“There are two main paths to fluency. One could be called ‘the well-beaten path’ . . . In such activities, repetition of the same material is used to develop fluency. By doing something over and over again you get better at doing it. The second path to fluency could be called ‘the rich and varied map.’ In such activities, the learners do things which differ slightly from each other but which draw on the same kind of knowledge. A good example of this is easy extensive reading where learners read lots of graded readers at the same level. The stories differ but the same vocabulary and grammatical constructions reoccur and the learners develop a rich range of associations with the word and constructions.”
When we do repeated readings/listenings and written/spoken retells of known stories we are developing fluency via “the well-beaten path.”
I now do this all the time: https://tprsquestionsandanswers.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/can-student-output-make-good-input/
Great idea, Chris. It’s the McDonald’s of language teaching… not quality but gratifying for kids. I’m learning how important this is to get students to buy in to the CI I do, especially since I’m working at a new school with new kids that are otherwise used to worksheets and nonsense.
That’s a nifty website there, Eric. It’s something special that your students take interest in how many unique words they’re reading in your stories.