Language Learning Accelerator
Teaching the skills, techniques, and attitudes needed to learn another language
The Language Learning Accelerator course will help your entire family develop the skills, methods, techniques, and attitudes to learn another language.
Learn how to use phonetics techniques to gain speech flexibility and prepare the mouth to learn new, foreign sounds.
Discover your individual learning style and the role it plays in language learning.
Practice your newly learned language-learning methods with native speakers.
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Course Syllabus
Read the CIT Participant Handbook
Contacting Your Facilitator
Add a Picture to Your Profile
Discussion: Getting to Know Each Other
Complete Language Learning Style Profiles #1-3
Complete Language Learning Style Profile #4
Complete the SLA Attitudes Assessment
Report Your Results (intro)
Report Your Results (survey)
Due Monday: Complete Lesson Plan for Language Helper Session #2
Due Tuesday: Highlight the "Four Approaches Checklists" (Four Approaches & Styles)
Due Wednesday: Complete "Self-Assessment Checklist"
Due Wednesday: Language Program Planning Workbook — Part A (Four Approaches and Styles)
Due Wednesday: Am I Still Me? (LanguaCulture & Identity)
Due Wednesday: Complete Section A (Phonetics)
Due Thursday: Read "Working with Language Helpers" and Complete Chart
Due Thursday: Complete "LanguaCulture" Reflection Paper (LanguaCulture & Identity)
Due Thursday: Complete Section B (Phonetics)
Due Friday: Familiarize yourself with PLACE online (PLACE)
Due Friday: Read "Participant Observation" Article (PLACE)
Due Friday: Complete Phonetics Chart (Phonetics)
Due Monday: Familiarize yourself with PLACE online (PLACE)
Due Monday: Take Pictures for Photobook Assignment
Due Monday: Complete Lesson Plan for Language Helper Session #3
Due Monday: Complete Section C (Phonetics)
Due Tuesday: Read "Preparing for Language School in a Cross-Cultural Setting" Article
Due Tuesday: Language Program Planning Workbook- Part B
Due Tuesday: Familiarize yourself with PLACE online (PLACE)
Due Tuesday: Complete Lesson Plan for Language Helper Session #4
Due Tuesday: Complete Section D (Phonetics)
Due Wednesday: Complete Lesson Plan for Language Helper Session #5
Due Wednesday: Complete Sections E & F (Phonetics)
Due Thursday: Familiarize yourself with PLACE online (PLACE)
Due Thursday: Language Program Planning Workbook — Part C (Planning Workbook)
Due Friday: Read "Orientation for Learners and Teachers" (Components of Language Learning)
Due Friday: Read “Motivation, Morale & Commitment”
Due One Week After SLA Ends: Language Program Planning Workbook — Final