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Language Diversity
• 11th to 12th grade lesson• This is to raise awareness
of linguistic diversity in your school and community.
• Come with us to explore how we can better ourselves by learning to communicate with people of other languages and cultures!
Lesson Plan
• This lesson will use a wide variety of materials and methods to educate students on the difficulties as well of the joys of speaking a foreign language.
• Students will compile a portfolio over the course of two weeks as a supplement to the diversity unit
• The web sites will be presented for students to visit and use in other activities.
Portfolio Requirements
• Students name in multiple languages
• Journaling on “Monsoon Wedding”
• Body Language Report
• Lexical Origin Report
• Notation on an interview with a speaker of another language
Objectives!• Increase knowledge of other cultures
• Invite students to explore the world outside their town
• Have fun learning ways to communicate with people of other linguistic backgrounds
• Delve into food, relationships and media by people of different cultures
• Further explore our own language and how it differs from and relates to others.
Materials
• VCR and TV, copy of “Monsoon Wedding”
• Computers
• Journal kept for body language experiment
• Dictionary and supplemented PC dictionary
• Notebooks
• Calligraphy markers
Check out these sites!
• Scroll down, select which language you want to learn!
• http://travlang.com/languages/
• Body Language Dictionary
Find out what body language is universal and what leads to global confusion!
Translate Anything!
• http://babblefish.com/babblefish/
If you thought other languages were strange and hard…
•Read why English is such a funny language!
It’s not all fun! Speakers of other languages have great difficulty in
the USA.
•Trouble getting an apartment
•English-Only hate groups
Activities!!!!!
• As a class, we will view the movie “Monsoon Wedding”
• Students will journal on the phenomenon of code-switching as presented in the film
• As a class we will discuss the cultural differences between India and America
Code-switching lesson
• Code switching result when one person knows two languages very well and switches from one to the other without noticing
• This is very common in India where Hindi and English are both the national language
• Code-switchers will often do it in mid-sentence!
Called by any other name
• Students will use the following websites to find their name in 3 different languages
• They will use calligraphy pens to write them and use as the title page of their portfolio
http://babblefish.com/babblefish/
Body Language
• Students will observe fellow classmates throughout the week
• They will journal on what body language is used, what it means, and if it would mean the same to others
English Words??????
• Students will find a word in the dictionary with a foreign origin.
• They will research using a PC interactive dictionary where this word came from and how we came to use it today
Interview!
• Interview a speaker of a foreign language– Ask them how that language helps them– Ask if it was difficult to learn another language– Ask them to teach you one significant phrase
Jot down your notes, as well as a comment on your
overall impressions What did you learn?
Culture Day and Buffet
• For extra credit, students may bring in food from a foreign country to share with the class
• If enough students are interested, we will dedicate a Friday to eating food and listening to foreign music
Final Product
• Students will write a short (1 page) letter explaining what they’ve learned from their activities
• Students will now compile a portfolio to illustrate what they’ve learned
The world’s not so small after all!
