Exploiting foreign language web content for language learning
I don’t recall what I was searching for now… I think I was looking for information about foreign language content on joost.com. Anyway, I ran across this great PDF on using foreign language web content for language learning (Post title here is the same as the article title. It’s adapted from her Masters thesis which was available in full at http://www.ineedpractice.com/thesis.pdf, but now that domain seems to be unreachable. There are a few good links and comments on the several kinds of online media we now have access to. Radio, TV, newsprint available in many languages. The great thing about news is when you do have stories that get reported around the world you get a similar context to try and view the language you’re studying in relation to. Anyway, thought it might be of interest here.
