Showing posts with label foreign language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign language. Show all posts

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Foreign Language ala Charlotte Mason Help

I'm working on my foreign language plans, and liked the suggestions on Charlotte Mason Help. However, they aren't all in one place for all the grade levels, so I thought I'd put them here.

Year 1:
(Choose a foreign language)
Illustrated children's tales
Audio -listen and read along
Copywork
Learn objects and simple every day phrases

Year 2:
Illustrated children's tales with audio cassettes or CDs
Transcribe sentences from tales.
Children translate small passages into English orally

Year 3: 
Listen to audio children’s tales with picture books
Children orally narrate from tales in English and foreign language
Copywork once a week from same story

Year 4:
Study target language’s grammar
Read from short books in target language and translate.
Copy and narrate favorite passages.

Year 5:
Transcribe favorite passages and narrate from children's literature in written and oral form alternating between English and target language.
Continue copywork

Year 6:
Continue learning the grammar
Begin translating literature passages into English in written form.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Foreign Language ala Gouin

Charlotte Mason advocated using the language learning method taught by François Gouin (the Series Method). Here are a couple links to articles or other information about that method.

Language Impact article about the Series Method

Gouin's The Art of Teaching and Studying Lessons

Gouin's A First Lesson in French

Videos about how to use Gouin's method

A quick idea of what Gouin's method looks like; suggests that it's good for working with young children.


And, not necessarily mentioning Gouin but Charlotte Mason-style foreign language instruction:

A Parent's Review Article "The Teaching of French"

A Parent's Review Article "Notes of Lessons": the first segment is on French narration.

Another Parent's Review Article titled "Notes of Lessons": one segment is notes on a German lesson.

A Parent's Review Article "On the Teaching of Modern Languages".

A Parent's Review Article "When and How to Begin Modern Languages".

Another Parent's Review Article "How to Learn a Language".

A fabulous blog post about using narration in foreign language learning by Amy in Peru.