Languages

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Languages

• Kristen Race
• ED 301
• Diversity Lesson

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Language Diversity

• 11th to 12th grade lesson
• This is to raise awareness of linguistic
  diversity in your school and community.
• Come with us to explore how we can better
  ourselves by learning to communicate with people
  of other languages and cultures!

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Lesson Plan

• This lesson will use a wide variety of materials
  and methods to educate students on the
  difficulties as well of the joys of speaking a
  foreign language.
• Students will compile a portfolio over the course
  of two weeks as a supplement to the diversity
  unit
• The web sites will be presented for students to
  visit and use in other activities.

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Portfolio Requirements

• Students name in multiple languages
• Journaling on Monsoon Wedding
• Body Language Report
• Lexical Origin Report
• Notation on an interview with a speaker of
  another language

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Objectives!

• Increase knowledge of other cultures
• Invite students to explore the world outside
  their town
• Have fun learning ways to communicate with people
  of other linguistic backgrounds
• Delve into food, relationships and media by
  people of different cultures
• Further explore our own language and how it
  differs from and relates to others.

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Materials

• VCR and TV, copy of Monsoon Wedding
• Computers
• Journal kept for body language experiment
• Dictionary and supplemented PC dictionary
• Notebooks
• Calligraphy markers

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Check out these sites!

• Scroll down, select which language you want to
  learn!
• http//travlang.com/languages/

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• Body Language Dictionary

Find out what body language is universal and what
leads to global confusion!
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Translate Anything!

• http//babblefish.com/babblefish/

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If you thought other languages were strange and
hard

• Read why English is such a funny language!

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Its not all fun! Speakers of other languages
have great difficulty in the USA.

• Trouble getting an apartment
• English-Only hate groups

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Activities!!!!!

• As a class, we will view the movie Monsoon
  Wedding
• Students will journal on the phenomenon of
  code-switching as presented in the film
• As a class we will discuss the cultural
  differences between India and America

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Code-switching lesson

• Code switching result when one person knows two
  languages very well and switches from one to the
  other without noticing
• This is very common in India where Hindi and
  English are both the national language
• Code-switchers will often do it in mid-sentence!

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Called by any other name

• Students will use the following websites to find
  their name in 3 different languages
• They will use calligraphy pens to write them and
  use as the title page of their portfolio

http//babblefish.com/babblefish/
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Body Language

• Students will observe fellow classmates
  throughout the week
• They will journal on what body language is used,
  what it means, and if it would mean the same to
  others

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English Words??????

• Students will find a word in the dictionary with
  a foreign origin.
• They will research using a PC interactive
  dictionary where this word came from and how we
  came to use it today

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Interview!

• Interview a speaker of a foreign language
• Ask them how that language helps them
• Ask if it was difficult to learn another language
• Ask them to teach you one significant phrase

Jot down your notes, as well as a comment on your
overall impressions What did you learn?
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Culture Day and Buffet

• For extra credit, students may bring in food from
  a foreign country to share with the class
• If enough students are interested, we will
  dedicate a Friday to eating food and listening to
  foreign music

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Final Product

• Students will write a short (1 page) letter
  explaining what theyve learned from their
  activities
• Students will now compile a portfolio to
  illustrate what theyve learned

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The worlds not so small after all!