Author
Bill Ferguson |
Spanish Teaching Resources Getting good quality teaching and resources
The information I am going to share is an honest account of what I have tried over the past year and my opinions are just that. . opinions. I will share my likes and dislikes, what works for me and what doesn't. This is a personal experience, I am not an expert but if you share my ambition of learning to communicate in a third, foreign language, then maybe we can help each other along the way.
Getting good quality teaching and resources is vital to success: encouraged by an influential book by Harry Ferber I now view language acquisition as a military campaign, I need to use my resources efficiently to overcome all resistance, I need to capture vocabulary and not let it escape. I need to wear down the opposition by attacking daily and not allowing it time to regroup. I need to learn the predictable tricks that the new language will play on me and be ready for them (this means learning grammar). Like any military campaign good quality intelligence is vital.
Learning a Third Language My current ambition is to be able to communicate comfortably in English, French and Spanish. I began to study Spanish in 2008. I have been a student of French, on and off, for about 30 years and up to last year ....read more Strategic Planning When I started to think about taking on a third language I realised I had two main worries: firstly I didn't want to lose my second language ...read more Fear of Losing French As I see it there is a simple choice ....read more |
26 January 2010
En lengua de signos
This is one of my “must watch” weekly programmes. I used to watch it on television but now that TVE has gone from Sky I watch it on my PC.
It is a half hour news and human interest show aimed at the hard of hearing, all the dialogue is at normal speed, texted simultaneously and presented with signing. I find the combination of speech and text very helpful, after a year of learning Spanish I find I can understand three times as much written as spoken and this is a great way to break into what my OU course calls “the wall of sound”.
Being online and recorded means you can use the pause and rewind buttons while you look up unfamiliar words and write down useful phrases. I’ve included a couple of screen shots to show what I mean.
|
Sreen Shots of En Lengua de Signos
|
 |
 |
|
Resources Getting good quality language teaching and resources |