Teaching English PBS kids Public Broadcasting Service Presented by Johanna Balcázar Claudia Moros English for Kids Games with TV shows
Feb 09, 2016
Teaching English PBS kidsPublic Broadcasting Service
Presented by Johanna BalcázarClaudia Moros
English for KidsGames with TV shows
TEACHING AND PLAYINGAdvantages
Kids learn better by playing since is less stress ( Ladd, Carol; ‘’A positive plan for creating more calm, less stress’’.2005.)
Kids learn when they can engage the classroom to their day to
day interests. (Paratore, Jeane’’ Classroom Literacy assessment, making sense of what students know and do’’. 2007.)
Kids see the advantages of using other foreign language since opens a door to interactive activities (Flood, James, ‘Methods of research on teaching the English language arts’’.2005)
Kids can build an identity in a foreign language by seeing his heroes speaking it (Rutledge M. Dennis ‘Biculturalism, self identity and societal transformation’’.2008)
www.pbskids.org
WORDGIRLhttp://pbskids.org/wordgirl/
The WordGirl Definition Competition is a way to engage your students with vocabulary words in an entertaining and interactive context
Power Wordshttp://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/powerwords
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Research Questions
Is it effective playing games online in the acquisition of a foreign language?
How teachers engage TV cartoons as part of children’s real life with teaching in class?
Should Colombia education system in his bilingual program design a website with English teaching oriented?