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Language Detectives

Hampshire Languages Conference – 7 th October 2010. Language Detectives. Kathrin Ueck & Jackie Berry. What is a Language Detective?. http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/embedding/cross-curricular_links/language_detectives.aspx. OK – over to you!.

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Language Detectives

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  1. Hampshire Languages Conference – 7th October 2010 Language Detectives Kathrin Ueck & Jackie Berry

  2. What is a Language Detective? http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/embedding/cross-curricular_links/language_detectives.aspx

  3. OK – over to you!

  4. What’s the language? rosso hóngsè rood dearg röd azzurro lánsè blauw gorm blå verde lù sè groen glas gröng nero hēisè zwart dubh svart giallo huángsè geel buí gul Italian Mandarin Dutch Gaelic Swedish ? ? ? ? ? • Which language was easiest to identify? Why? • Which was the trickiest? Why? • Any lucky guesses? What were they based on? • What are these words? • What could an activity like this teach children about language(s)? Source : http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/index.php#primary

  5. Learning a language isn't just a case of memorising lists of nouns and verb endings... We need to make links with what we already know... ...and learn different strategies to help us to practise and remember. So we understand better how languages work...

  6. The KS2 Framework for Languages • Develops this across KS2 through the cross-cutting strands: • Knowledge About Language (KAL) • Language Learning Strategies (LLS) • AND • Through many of the Intercultural Understanding (IU) objectives, too.

  7. Knowledge About Language (KAL)

  8. Where do these words originate? dollar robot Bengali German Czech Arabic Dutch Finnish Greek Portuguese yacht athlete sauna marmalade bungalow alcohol Source: http://www.krysstal.com/borrow.html#a

  9. Language Learning Strategies (LLS)

  10. Traffic Lights for LLS • Red = Stop, think, make a link • Yellow = Wait and think • Green = Go ahead These words may have nothing in common with their English translation, but you can remember them by finding a funny, memorable association. These words may remind you of words in English that are not the same, but similar. These words are the same or nearly the same in English and in target language, even if there are some different uses for them. http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupWorkspaces2.asp?GroupID=905251&WorkspaceID=1532343

  11. Traffic Lights examples

  12. Intercultural Understanding(IU) • Learn about different languages spoken by children at school • Increase awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity • Locate country / countries where language is spoken • Identify social conventions • Have contact with a native speaker • View a video or media resource about the country • Look at the writing system of different languages

  13. http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth

  14. Making a day of it... ...language detectives with gifted and talented pupils at KS2

  15. A big THANK YOU to Jean Haig and Sue Cave who came up with the idea and resourced the day

  16. 4. Prior knowledge 1. Gesture and mime 7. Letters and sounds 2. Eye contact and repetition 6. Rhythm and intonation 5. Sentence structure and dictionaries 3. Memorisation strategies

  17. Dear Detectives Having successfully completed your detective training, we need you to solve your first case. It has been discovered that an international criminal gang is planning an operation in the UK. This gang uses several languages to communicate, this is why this crime has been selected for you to solve. Your job is to use your language detective skills to find out who will commit the crime, in which city, at what time and the exact mapreference. It is known that by identifying a certain object carried by this criminal, the crime will be prevented. You will only be able to discover what this object is by finding out the information above. In this envelope you will find some clues which have already been intercepted and given to us by other detectives from around the world. Read each clue carefully and find out what you must do. Remember, time is running out and you must solve all three clues if you are to find out the name of the object. Good Luck!

  18. The following language learning strategies are used during the detective day

  19. Useful websites • Language detectives lesson on Primary Languages website http://www.primarylanguages.org.uk/training_zone/teachers/embedding/cross-curricular_links/language_detectives.aspx • Wokingham Learning Hub for all the Gifted & Talented Language Detective Day resources: http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=937981 • http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth Newbury Park School website. A full list of useful sites and resources is on your handout!

  20. http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=937981http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=937981

  21. http://www.language-investigator.co.uk/index.htm

  22. http://www.omniglot.com/language/colours/index.php

  23. http://www.digitaldialects.com

  24. jackie.berry@hants.gov.ukkathrin.ueck@web.de

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