Frances Matos-Schultz http://blog.lib.umn.edu/dmc/francesmatosschultz/ en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 02 May 2007 19:55:34 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Instructor

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/dmc/francesmatosschultz/2007/05/post_2.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/dmc/francesmatosschultz/2007/05/post_2.html Future Plans Tue, 01 May 2007 20:47:51 +0000 Tertulias: Developing Independent Learner Strategies for Communication Tertulias is part of a hybrid technology-mediated learning model designed for first-year Spanish classes that I proposed as a 2006–07 DMC Faculty Fellowship Program project. Tertulias, which in Spanish refers to a group of people that meets informally in a public place to chat and discuss topics of interest, is a series of online learning modules designed to provide the new instructor with a pedagogically integrated communicative module and to maximize the learner's exposure to real life linguistic environments where cultural issues are expressed in a multitude of levels. This multi-tasked listening, speaking and writing experience is intended to help the learner to become more independent by identifying and supporting individual communicative strategies and variables that result in more successful face-to-face classroom discussions.

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