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| When teacher love New Norwegian........ |
I have had to classes in new Norwegian and i wanted to make this subject exciting and funny. The first thing i did was to create a facebook group where they only should write in new Norwegian. I often started out a discussing, for example about topics they have to write their opinion in a longer text than an "yes" or "now" answer.
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I have heard statements like this from my students: "It is much funnier to learn new Norwegian on Facebook than writing in a book!". We often starts the lesson with some grammatics topics, afterwards we can do lots of exciting things like bingo, competitiondictation (i read a text in bookish language ad the pupils have to write in new Norwegian - aftewards they check out the solution). My experience is that they learn to use the dictionary and they learn from each other by cooperating. When they write on Facebook, i encourage them to check out words which is not correct. They also tell each other when something is wrong. In my lessons i can hear jubilation when we are going to work on Facebook or with "togetherwriting" (on samskrive.ndla.no/). I have experienced that they write more together with others than alone - and maybe the most important thing is to learn a language with using it in dailylife - not only solving tasks in themes which is not related to their lifes. We often use exercises on the internet with training in grammatic tasks (http://elevrom.sprakradet.no/). Here they get quick responding what`s right or wrong - a positive reinforcement.
It is important to me as a teacher that my pupils find it exciting and that the teaching is funny - you learn more and your motivation increases. In my class i have espesially one pupil who hates working with schooltasks - but with using alternative teachingmethodes i haven`t heard any negative reactions. He writes, reads og do i really good job. Why shouldn`t learning be funny and playing?
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