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KITE Case Number:2025-1
This teacher teaches distance education German. At first I thought it was an online class, but that is not the case. This teacher runs the classroom of high school students, but is not in the room. Instead she uses video conferencing equipment, TV’s, microphones that pick up on everything in her distance classroom.
The way she used the technology was fascinating! She teaches German, not one of the more common languages to learn in this country. She had German students video conference with her students. The American students learning the German language were observing the Germans students, other high school age children, interact with each other. At first the students would only observe the German kids interacting with each other. This, like the article stated, was nothing that could be learned in any textbook. It was just German kids being themselves. After a while they started getting comfortable with each other and interacting a little more. The teacher had to assign them the task of teaching each other different types of games so they would interact more.
This was a really fascinating way of teaching because the students got to see the real thing. First they got the textbook knowledge of the language. They might have also studied some German culture, but being able to experience it for themselves let them make that important connection. They get to see and compare and learn for themselves how the language is really used by people of their own age. This was as authentic as it gets. They watched the students talk about things they regularly talk about. It was not something dramatized or planed out like many language learning resources. It was just spontaneous and REAL conversations and interaction.
Something that might have enhanced the learning of the American students would be to interact more with the German students. For example give them a topic or have the students pick a topic to discuss so they would interact more. They might work on a project together and this way they would have to communicate with each other on a more advanced level.
ELSIE AT UNLV
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