Tech EDGE - Teaching World Language with Technology: lyricstraining

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[00:00:05.550]Hi, I'm Guy Trainin
[00:00:07.260]from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:00:09.900]Hi, I'm Chrystal Liu,
[00:00:11.430]I'm from Nebraska Department of Education,
[00:00:14.400]I'm the world language specialist.
[00:00:16.290]And this is the "Teaching World Language
[00:00:18.990]with Technology" series.
[00:00:22.050]And today, we're gonna talk about LyricsTraining.
[00:00:25.410]And it's a very fun tool that use lyrics,
[00:00:29.315]let's you use songs to help students to learn the language,
[00:00:32.940]and also culture at the same time.
[00:00:36.630]And this one is really, really fun
[00:00:39.180]because it is using popular songs in different languages
[00:00:43.710]and it is really trying to capitalize on the opportunity
[00:00:48.060]that many of these songs are available.
[00:00:50.220]The lyrics are available online
[00:00:51.870]and so are the videos of these songs.
[00:00:55.530]And this website really took all of these tools
[00:00:59.010]and put them together in a way that allows us
[00:01:01.500]to use these songs for teaching.
[00:01:03.000]Now, as world language teachers, we have, for many years,
[00:01:06.630]used music to introduce kids to culture,
[00:01:09.660]to make it interesting, to engage them.
[00:01:12.540]This just goes way to the next level.
[00:01:15.690]Teachers can assign songs, music to student level
[00:01:20.850]so students can explore on their own.
[00:01:24.060]Also, there are Write Mode and Choice Mode
[00:01:27.210]so students can spell out the word when they're listening
[00:01:30.900]or they can make the choices,
[00:01:32.880]which are provided by the platform.
[00:01:35.850]Once they spell the word or make the choice,
[00:01:39.990]the song will continue.
[00:01:41.460]So it's kind of, you know, you have to solve the problem
[00:01:45.510]and get the sound right, and then you can move on.
[00:01:49.440]At the same time,
[00:01:51.300]the students can explore a little bit on themselves.
[00:01:55.470]If they want to listen to it again, to try the word again,
[00:01:58.500]they can go back and try and to get 100% right.
[00:02:04.800]So it's also on their own pace.
[00:02:07.800]And so, really, what we're talking about
[00:02:10.470]is this is very much like a cloze exercise
[00:02:12.660]where you need to plug in the missing words
[00:02:15.120]and the different levels in the app itself
[00:02:18.300]really reflect how many words are going to be missing.
[00:02:21.150]So how much work do you have to do?
[00:02:22.710]So this is a process of listening carefully
[00:02:26.520]to make sure that you're capturing the missing word
[00:02:29.280]and plugging it in.
[00:02:30.660]It'll give you some room to make a decision
[00:02:33.060]but, eventually, the program will stop
[00:02:35.250]and say you have missed too many and you've gotta go back.
[00:02:39.150]So that's a feature
[00:02:40.350]and we're gonna show it to you right now.
[00:02:42.300]That's a feature that's really, really
[00:02:44.910]at the heart of the LyricsTraining.
[00:02:48.820]Also, teachers can, you know,
[00:02:51.330]go to create new exercise to adjust their level of language
[00:02:56.760]and difficulty level for the students.
[00:02:59.820]Actually, when teachers are creating exercise,
[00:03:02.580]they can pick the word that to be taken out from the lyrics.
[00:03:06.720]That means, teachers can actually tailor the song
[00:03:10.410]based on what they're teaching in the classroom now.
[00:03:13.920]So students can put more,
[00:03:17.670]use more time to practice the words
[00:03:19.800]that they need to be really familiar with.
[00:03:23.220]Let's model right now.
[00:03:24.900]And we're gonna use songs in English.
[00:03:27.780]There are multiple languages, as we said,
[00:03:30.060]we're gonna use songs in English
[00:03:31.830]because we don't know what language you're comfortable with.
[00:03:34.740]So we're pretty sure you can do English
[00:03:37.200]and so we'll use that.
[00:03:38.910]But imagine that you can use Spanish, Portuguese, French,
[00:03:44.220]and so on German.
[00:03:45.240]Most of the languages that are taught in the United States
[00:03:47.460]is some languages that usually aren't,
[00:03:49.650]although there might be a possibility.
[00:03:52.770]So different genres, right?
[00:03:54.660]We're in country lyrics,
[00:03:55.830]which I'm pretty sure is available mostly in English.
[00:03:59.310]But other languages have genres
[00:04:02.790]depending on what's available from that culture.
[00:04:07.350]So the first thing we're doing
[00:04:08.760]is we're going to choose a level.
[00:04:12.000]So we select a game mode
[00:04:13.650]and let's choose beginner because it's easy to follow.
[00:04:17.010]And you can see that immediately,
[00:04:18.450]you can see the way the board operates,
[00:04:23.220]it's very, very simple.
[00:04:24.240]The most important thing is on the top,
[00:04:26.340]you want to select between Write Mode,
[00:04:28.200]which means spelling in real time.
[00:04:31.200]That is quite a challenge.
[00:04:32.490]So students have to be at a decent level
[00:04:34.890]to be able to do that.
[00:04:36.390]And Choice Mode.
[00:04:37.830]In Choice Mode, it'll give you four choices
[00:04:40.560]and you have to select one of those four choices
[00:04:43.710]and it'll continue.
[00:04:45.420]So let's now start the game in Choice Mode.
[00:04:54.427](upbeat music)
[00:05:08.428]♪ Well, I think I get the message ♪
[00:05:11.973]♪ I'm not deaf and I'm not blind ♪
[00:05:15.727]♪ But the signals that I'm getting ♪
[00:05:19.400]So what you can see right now
[00:05:21.210]is that while you're listening,
[00:05:22.980]the choices show up on the right hand side.
[00:05:26.400]If you're working on an iPad,
[00:05:27.720]which is very possible with that,
[00:05:29.310]it'll actually show up on the bottom.
[00:05:31.650]And as the song goes on,
[00:05:34.290]it tells you when there's a word missing.
[00:05:36.000]You've gotta make that choice.
[00:05:37.440]Eventually, if you don't make a choice,
[00:05:39.120]the song will stop, wait, and you have to make that choice.
[00:05:42.960]So it gives you some think time.
[00:05:44.640]If it takes time and you can scrub back,
[00:05:47.910]go back and re-listen to make sure that you understand
[00:05:51.630]what the choice is if you've missed it.
[00:05:54.120]So it does allow the students to be able
[00:05:57.810]to really re-listen and see if they can hear that word
[00:06:03.090]and make the right choice.
[00:06:05.220]So let's continue a little bit more.
[00:06:08.923]♪ That you've decided ♪
[00:06:11.999]♪ To just get up and go ♪
[00:06:15.422]♪ But if the reasons here are oh so clear ♪
[00:06:19.350]All right.
[00:06:20.183]So you get this chance to see that.
[00:06:23.310]What you can see on top is you get a score,
[00:06:26.550]you see how many gaps are,
[00:06:28.020]so how many you took some time to do,
[00:06:31.110]you get how many you hit correctly, and how many you failed.
[00:06:35.670]So you are getting multiple sources of information.
[00:06:38.940]The most important thing for that
[00:06:40.740]is for the students themselves to be able to see
[00:06:43.200]how well they do.
[00:06:44.033]But for us as teachers, it's a window into what they can do
[00:06:47.970]with this kind of an application.
[00:06:49.230]And you can see even in English,
[00:06:51.330]even with with a beginner level and choice,
[00:06:56.160]it can be somewhat challenging.
[00:06:57.960]And so the most important thing to think about
[00:07:02.010]when students do this
[00:07:03.390]is how much they can focus on the sound.
[00:07:06.060]Headphones would probably be best.
[00:07:08.250]It also means they're not confusing others.
[00:07:10.350]And you can have students at different levels
[00:07:12.690]but they need to be able to focus on the language
[00:07:16.200]because otherwise, and here, we're in the site
[00:07:19.350]where there's a little bit diffused sound,
[00:07:21.720]which makes it really hard to actually do well,
[00:07:24.360]again, in a language we speak quite well.
[00:07:27.540]So this is one way to use this.
[00:07:29.497]One more feature, if we can scroll down,
[00:07:33.000]is the ability to print the lyrics.
[00:07:35.640]So there's the ability to give students the full lyrics
[00:07:39.210]so they have another avenue to learn the language
[00:07:44.640]through actually exploring the language
[00:07:48.060]as it is written in the lyrics.
[00:07:50.370]So that's another thing you can do with it.
[00:07:52.260]And you may actually not want to do this whole exercise
[00:07:56.310]but it does give you access to a lots of lyrics.
[00:07:59.850]And also we can make it,
[00:08:01.530]you know, our hard copy, a manual selection of blanks.
[00:08:06.360]So this one allows teachers
[00:08:08.160]to select the words that are missing.
[00:08:11.190]So you can actually turn this
[00:08:12.480]into your formative assessment or into a quiz.
[00:08:17.670]After students have already done this,
[00:08:19.680]they're more familiar with their lyrics
[00:08:22.050]and more familiar with their vocabulary
[00:08:24.600]you have taught in class.
[00:08:26.460]For example, I want to...
[00:08:28.080]I have taught reasons,
[00:08:29.310]I want them to be able to spell it
[00:08:32.190]and maybe some other ones.
[00:08:37.590]Yeah.
[00:08:38.700]And the...
[00:08:40.620]Then, print now.
[00:08:42.960]This will give you...
[00:08:45.870]The ability to do a written exercise in class
[00:08:48.510]and then you can have it just projected to the whole class.
[00:08:51.600]Everybody is doing the same exercise at the same time
[00:08:54.420]with a written document.
[00:08:56.040]And again, that lovely choice of I know which vocabulary
[00:09:01.260]I want to target, which means that I can turn this exercise
[00:09:05.910]that is done really by AI that chooses random words
[00:09:10.770]into this exercise, into a much more purposeful exercise
[00:09:16.530]that decides what vocabulary actually counts.
[00:09:19.830]So if you're teaching early vocabulary,
[00:09:21.540]teaching a certain verb, or a certain conjugations,
[00:09:24.810]or anything like that,
[00:09:26.790]you can make those pedagogical choices
[00:09:29.550]within the framework of this website.
[00:09:32.310]And also this allows teachers to include all students.
[00:09:34.980]Some students might not have their devices with them
[00:09:38.340]or they cannot afford one and they can still participate
[00:09:43.200]or with their hard copy of their lyrics exercise.
[00:09:47.370]So this is LyricsTraining as an app.
[00:09:51.240]It actually has a somewhat different name.
[00:09:54.450]And that is a Lingo...
[00:09:58.392]Clip.
[00:09:59.225]LingoClip. Yeah.
[00:10:01.290]It has an interesting symbol.
[00:10:03.450]It's got an L with a play button on it.
[00:10:07.950]And so now that we've shown this app or web-based app,
[00:10:15.570]what are the things that teachers have to think about
[00:10:18.300]when they think about using this in the classroom?
[00:10:21.900]I think the most important thing for teachers
[00:10:24.120]is to think about their language level of their students
[00:10:28.350]so they can put students on the right level
[00:10:32.160]when they're doing this exercise.
[00:10:34.620]And also there might be some, you know,
[00:10:37.890]things not appropriate for their age group.
[00:10:40.830]So I highly recommend teachers
[00:10:42.870]to watch the whole video first
[00:10:45.960]before assigned to the students so that, you know,
[00:10:49.237]we don't want students to run into some funny things
[00:10:52.980]and then come back to tell the teachers that's not...
[00:10:55.830]Appropriate, yeah.
[00:10:57.600]So that's a thing to worry about the most.
[00:10:59.490]What is exciting is it's engaging,
[00:11:02.820]as a teacher, there's a lot less work that you have to do.
[00:11:05.880]There are a lot of tools right at your disposal
[00:11:08.940]and you are exposing kids to culture
[00:11:11.130]and, obviously, to language,
[00:11:12.930]and you can be highly selected pedagogically
[00:11:15.330]about what you want them to do
[00:11:17.130]within the confines of the app.
[00:11:19.620]Yeah, this really saves a lot of time.
[00:11:21.270]I remember, like, years ago, I used lyrics.
[00:11:23.790]I have to type them all out.
[00:11:25.469]Yeah.
[00:11:26.686]I mean, literally word by word,
[00:11:30.000]I mean, all by myself.
[00:11:31.830]Yeah, so this also gives students
[00:11:37.849]one more fun thing they can do after class.
[00:11:42.660]When they want to listen to some music,
[00:11:44.610]they can choose to listen on LyricTraining
[00:11:48.630]so they can learn the language outside of the classroom.
[00:11:52.500]And the last thing that I think is important,
[00:11:55.200]as teachers, we're always looking for opportunities
[00:11:58.080]to differentiate, and this is a great way to differentiate
[00:12:02.010]because if kids have headsets
[00:12:04.350]and they can listen on their own,
[00:12:05.910]or do it in a quiet corner, or in the media center,
[00:12:10.290]whatever options there are,
[00:12:11.970]then they can be at different levels
[00:12:13.980]and even have the choice of genre that is available.
[00:12:18.780]They can chose something that appeals to them,
[00:12:20.850]whether it's hip hop, or country,
[00:12:23.850]or whatever it is that is a genre that appeals to them,
[00:12:27.000]they can try and find it.
[00:12:28.470]And we have to help them make sure
[00:12:31.530]that the choices about level are correct.
[00:12:33.450]But it does allow for that differentiation
[00:12:35.730]of both level and interest.
[00:12:38.160]And also, there's one more thing I want to mention
[00:12:40.950]is about the culture.
[00:12:42.540]Actually, when we are playing
[00:12:44.460]or we assign students their song to listen to,
[00:12:48.570]we can call their attention to, you know,
[00:12:52.470]cultural elements that were demonstrated in the song.
[00:12:56.670]And then we can ask them to take notes.
[00:13:00.270]And we as a group, as a class,
[00:13:02.970]we can ask the students to describe
[00:13:06.750]what they have observed about that culture
[00:13:12.660]that is shown in the LyricsTraining
[00:13:17.910]platform. All right.
[00:13:18.930]So that's our "Teaching World Language with Technology."
[00:13:22.890]And we'll see you next time.
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