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Kondicionál

Date of Publication

available on 31 October, 2021

Target Group

Students

Domain Area

Accounting
Arts & Music
Bioscience
Business & Communication
Engineering
International Relations
Journalism & multimedia
Law
Medicine & Nursing
Sustainability
Teacher Education
Tourism

Learning Scenario

Autonomous learning

Target Language

Slovakian

Language of Instruction

Slovakian

CEFR level

A2

Type of Material

Activity/task
Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)

Linguistic Features

Vocabulary
Grammar

Skills

Reading

Description

The e-slovak.sk website contains free of charge online courses for beginners, who want to learn Slovakian as a foreign language. All the explanations are bilingual: English and Slovakian. This grammar explanation and activity on conditional sentences is ideal for a self-study course. It is incorporated in an everyday situation: ordering in a restaurant. This particular activity comes with an illustration which helps the learner to contextualize the sentences. The dialogue can be simultaneously read with the grammar explanation as many times as the learner wants to.

Case study

The material is ideal for beginners. The teaching method is inductive, which means that there are examples first representing the grammar item. The learner can make predictions about the situation by watching the illustration. As the new grammar item is highlighted in the speech bubbles, learners can focus on these parts and find similarities in them. After this lead-in part, the learner can read the grammar explanation, and go back to the examples as many times as it is needed. The assessment is done by a drag-and-drop matching exercise, which the learner can do as many times as they want to. The final task could be find out what situations the sentences in the matching exercises could be used; this task activates learner’s creativity and phantasy.

Guidelines

The lead-in activity can be to make predictions about the situation by watching the illustration. The learner reads the conversation to support their understanding. The learner is to focus on the highlighted words in the speech bubbles, as they are the new grammar to be learnt. The grammar explanation is very clear and logical, and uses the sentences from the situation, The learner is to go back to the conversation in order to understand the explanation from an everyday situation. Then the learner can read on the grammar explanation with further examples. As the explanation in English, the learner could compare the Slovakian conditional structures with the same ones in their native language. Finally, the learner does the assessment, which is a matching exercises: example sentences are to be matched with their meanings. This final activity can be done as many times as the learner wants and reaches the highest score.

Review

Category
Rate
Comprehensive approach
Capacity to match the needs of lecturers and students

5

Added value
The provided tangible improvements

5

Motivation enhancement
The capacity to motivate students to improve their language skills

5

Innovation
Effectiveness in introducing innovative, creative and previously unknown approaches to LSP learning

5

Transferability
Measurement of the transferable potential and possibility to be a source of further capitalisation/application for other language projects in different countries

5

Skills assessment and validation
Availability of appropriate tools for lecturers to monitor students’ progress and for students to assess own progress and to reflect on learning

5

Adaptability
Flexibility of the contents and possibilities for the LSP lecturers to adapt the contents to their and to students’ need

5

Usability
Assess the technical usability from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

5

Accessibility
Assess the accessibility from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

5

Comments:
The present teaching source satisfies the needs of students who want to learn Slovakian as a foreign language in any field or age to acquire the basics of the language. The layout of the site is very friendly, attractive; well-structured and easy to understand. The site needs very basic ICT skills and knowledge of English. As there is an assessment at the end of the activity, the immediate feedback on the learner’s achievement is provided. As this final matching exercise can be done as many times as one wants, learning from failures supports the reflectivity in the resource, and develops learner’s self-esteem.
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