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Exciting Language Learning Through Technology

The purpose of this investigation was to discover the best practices integrating technology in second language acquisition that reflected 21st Century learning. Furthermore, technology can have many positive effects on learning if adequately planned and implemented. The inverted instruction/flipped model can serve as a learning tool that allows the learner to have access to content at their convenience which could also support low achieving students to go at their own paste and repeat if needed. Plus, provide more time for language application in the classroom. In addition to technology enhancing learning, the importance of collaboration as a skill is monumental not only to 21st century learning, but preparing students for the future. The tools, strategies, and educational models supported the fundamental question to this research,  how can technology enhance the language learning experience? 

World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

The revised World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages helped me stay focused on what I looking for when comes to selecting technologies and tasks that reflected 21st century learning and teaching. The new standards is a guide into how support language learning for the 21st century demands by focusing on developing communicative and cultural competence. 
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Click on the image to access the summary guide the World-Readiness Standards. 

World-Readiness Standards

21st Century Skills Map for World Languages

The project was also designed on the 21st Century Skills World Languages Map designed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. The skill map presents standards teaching languages using 21st century skills. In this new framework, it focuses on teaching foreign languages through the 5 c’s: communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities. The 5C’s are divided in three ranges,  novice, intermediate, and advanced. It also explains what a student should be able to do in each range. Not to mention, it puts emphasis in commutative competence; speaking the target language to communicate and interact with those who do not speak the native language. All in all, it compares traditional teaching methods with how foreign language classroom should look today in the 21st century.  

Click on the image to access the 21st Century Skills Map for World Languages.

21st Century Skills Map

What you can find here...

As stated in my research, I wanted to enhance the language learning experience by engaging students with tasks that were authentic and meaningful, apply newly learned knowledge to develop language and communicative competence for all learners, and instill 21st century skills. What you will find here in the "Learn More" are examples of lesson plans, videos in how to use web tools to support language learning, references used to conduct the study, and assessment tools, data collected from research, and rubrics to support educators to begin their integration of technology in their classroom.  

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