In preparation for yesterday’s speed dating exercise, each of us created one storyboard for each concept area we presented at the end of the last phase: passive exposure to the new language, immersive virtual environment, and learning in context.
After a team lunch with Chinese takeout, we got down to the business of synthesizing what we learned from our research workshops so far (with Duolingo, two professors, and five language learners). We began by posting all of their ideas as well as a few of our own on…
On Friday, we are hosting two generative workshops: one with two language professors and one with four language learners. (We unfortunately couldn’t coordinate their schedules to mix the two groups together.) We’ve come up with a couple activities and have…
Today I met Mackenzie’s roommate, Sarah, and listened to her immersive cultural experience in Zambia. As a Peace Corps medical staff, she was departed to Zambia after 3 month language training and spent 2 years for a trive who speak ‘Tonga’, one of 74 dialects in Zambia. Her…
We began our meeting on Saturday by updating our Post-it note collection and sorting them into buckets we’ve been creating over the last week.
Works as a language tutor for GPLC- Greater Pittsburgh Literature Council
Candace Skibba is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies and the Associate Director of the MA in Applied Second…