Immersion classrooms versus traditional grammarian approach:
Total Immersion vs. Partial Immersion
Bilingual or Two-Way Immersion
There are, however, some concerns about the child's L1 acquisition. Many times we find that children are lacking comparable competency in either of the languages learned. However, after a few years, these children generally catch up to grade level and sometimes even excel their peers.
Perceived Immersion
(Imagined immersion based on mental imagery)
"Memory characteristics of recently imagined events"
After one week, students who had had the real experience remembered it only as intensely as those who had imagined it.
So the idea is that if we can get students to imagine a situation well enough, they may be able to learn from it as well as if the experience were real.
Independent Study, Japan 43 - Pretend Trip to Japan
Rosetta Stone
"Dynamic Immersion"
Live Mocha
Tandem e-learning to help each other learn languages. Have to earn credits to keep using the site by helping other people learn your native language.
www.mangolanguages.com
Second Life
The Influence of Music on Learning
Music and Memory
Music and Spatial Task Performance
Music and Mood
Mozart Effect
Rats who listen to Mozart perform better in mazes.
This type of highly structured music increases ability in spatial tasks.
Interesting questions raised about the ability to use music in instruction.
This worked well with our experience in Anneke, Greg, and Rob's L2 Language Acquisition. We used "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" to learn some Japanese words. It worked out much better than for the people
Learning Management Systems
All of these thousands of PLEs, MLEs, VLEs, LMSs, are VLEs - Virtual Learning Environments.
Software system designed to support teaching and learning by giving a consistent method for accessing class information, etc.
VLE
- LMS - Learning Management System
- LCMS - Learning Content Management System
