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Strategies to help MFL learners become more independent
Promoting independent learning in MFL
Helena Butterfield
Curriculum Leader of MFL
St. Michael’s Catholic Academy, Billingham
eTwinning Ambassador
MFL blogger http://www.langwitch.co.uk
Twitter: @langwitch
About me
Objectives today• To look at a number of activities that I use to promote
independent• To see some practical examples of how I have used these in the
past• To reflect on our own practice and how we could incorporate
these activities into lessons
Some of my favourites
Ideal for•Consolidation•Introducing vocab•Review•Starters
Quiz Quiz Trade
• Stand up – hand up – pair up• Greet one another in the TL• Ask the question on the card / show the TL phrase on the card• Coach your partner to help them work out the answer /
translate• Tip – Tip – Try again• Partner repeats• Swap cards• Praise• Move off – hand up – pair up
How it works
• Download from here: http://www.mmlsoft.com/index.php/products/tarsia
• Great for…• Jigsaws
• Dominoes
• Follow me cards
Tarsia
Showdown
• Great for…
• Consolidation
• Drilling
• Review
• Peer support
• Great for starters
• No preparation needed!
Infinite Scrabble
• Use your QQT cards for this!• Great for …• Introducing new language• Consolidation• Drilling• Review
Fan ‘n’ pick
Lingo bingo
Jot write
Great for…
•Starters
•Getting ideas down
•Colloborating
A Japanese poem that has 17 syllables, divided up as 5-7-5
Haiku
www.festisite.com/text-layout.rebus
Festisite
• Rally robin
• Round robin
• All write round robin
Answering questions without “hands up”
