PowerPoint and multimedia presentation

PowerPoint and Multimedia in the Foreign Language Classroom Presenter: Yi-Chen (Jenny) He Chinese Instructor, West Los Angeles College Outline of thie presentation  The pros and cons of using PowerPoint  A demonstration of applying PowerPoint into a language classroom  Conclusion What is PowerPoint  A business presentation tool  In education, a visual aid, a knowledge delivery system The good things about using PowerPoint……  You look professional  You look more prepared  Your lesson is more structured and organized  You won’t forget your lesson plan  You can always use your slides again in the future  You’ll never need to turn your back in class From students’ perspectives  They love it!  Enhance note-taking skills  Slides can be used for their study guides  Increased self-efficacy beliefs  Pictures, sounds, movies, graphics, etc  Positive learning attitudes and motivation What you should be aware of  Limited flexibility in class  Less classroom engagement  Loss of teaching creativity  Always have your backup plan in case your equipment breaks down Map; ditu; 地地 ; 地图 Huntington Library  The new Chinese garden  Photos dim sum; 地地 ; 点心 Shāomài; 地地 ; 图图  Small steamed dumplings with pork inside a thin wheat flour wrapper Usually topped off with crab roe and mushroom Movie: Confucius Initials (consonants)  zh, ch, sh, r  zh: turn up the tip of the tongue against the hard plate; unaspirated, similar to “j”, judge  ch: aspirated, similar to “ch”  sh: similar to “sh”  r: vibration, similar to “z”, tongue; unaspirated, between [r] and [z]  z, c, s, VS zh, ch, sh  Practice  Pronunciation chart Chapter  Self-introduction (p.2)  Handout  Practice 1.2.1  1.2.2 knowing your classmates  Find a classmate who has the same interest with you, and then 1.2.3 activity  In-class writing practice A 3.3 The three methods to create characters  (p.30)  Pictographic method  Associative method  Semantic-phonetic method Chapter 9, part  Reading (p.114)  Translation activity  9.5.2 project (p.123)  Chinese only activity  If I hear you speak English, you get warnings For the next class  Your homework  Quiz for the next week: Self-introduction in pinyin Chinese numerals in pinyin Midterm practice  Lesson to Lesson  Oral exam Jinye Si (p.16) One tongue twister (your choice) Dialogue from L1 – L5 (chosen randomly) Country; guó 國图 Can; huì 图 會 Review  May I ask… is your father a teacher?  Yes He is a teacher My mom is also a teacher  Is your teacher Chinese?  My Chinese is not good  My mom and dad are both Americans  May I ask… What is your nationality?  No, I’m not Chinese I’m American Review_L5 vocabulary Europe Newspaper What Chinese (language) Asia World America Who Canada The United Sates To be at or in Classmate The Great China Wall map The Yangtze River How friend Australia Look; read; watch Review  Activity (4 people in one group)  Each person will get a card You need to find out what it means and how to read it  Group work You can help your group members  You need to pronounce every word correctly You will be asked to come to the front and read it to the whole class  The other groups will try to translate it in English The fastest one can win points for your own group  Points: correct pronunciation, correct translation Self-introduction  A movie clip  She used different languages to introduce herself: English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese  I believe you can introduce yourself in Chinese better than she did!!!!  After the movie, please introduce yourself in Chinese Self-introduction  The movie  What can you talk about in your self- introduction?  Name, age, where you live, your interest, languages you can speak, occupation (school you go to), phone number, what you like/ don’t like, etc Final thoughs  The use of PowerPoint does not necessarily increase students’ achievement After all, it’s the “content” and “knowledge” on the slides are the most important  However, it does enhance students’ learning attitudes and motivation [...]... swim and sink (chén yú luò yàn; 地地地地 )  She was actually a spy!! Terra Cotta Warriors  bīngmǎ yǒng 地地地  soldier and horse funerary     statues Qín Shĭ Huáng Dì the First Emperor of China City: Xī'ān Their purpose was to help rule another empire with Shĭ Huáng Dì in the afterlife bīngmǎ yǒng 地地地  The remains of the craftsmen working in the tomb have also been found within its confines, and it... “ch”  sh: similar to “sh”  r: vibration, similar to “z”, tongue; unaspirated, between [r] and [z]  z, c, s, VS zh, ch, sh  Practice  Pronunciation chart Chapter 1  Self-introduction (p.2)  Handout  Practice 1.2.1  1.2.2 knowing your classmates  Find a classmate who has the same interest with you, and then do 1.2.3 activity  In-class writing practice A 3.3 The three methods to create characters