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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Angela<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cathy’s shell is also used by Muurrbay so good to share that work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">However Drupal also runs a module eLearn. This is a more flexible system with more plugins, and the drupal 8 interface is a vast improvement. Also more flexible with api to allow integration of mobile
apps and your language site. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It seems you want to use as an app – both of these systems are mobile friendly sites if you choose the right mobile-friendly template (so can view on browser on phone) and you can transfer between
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Doug Marmion and Cathy Bow are trying to get a language into DuoLingo but the work required by the community to support this is high. Good to tell them you are interested though<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ruth Singer <rsinger@unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 9:04 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Peter Nyhuis <p.nyhuis@student.unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Angela Harrison <angela.harrison@batchelor.edu.au>, "r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au" <r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au>, Samantha Disbray <s.disbray@uq.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [RNLD] Message to r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au Exploring online language learning, for example 'Duolingo' or 'Say something in'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm just starting to build a Mawng course using LearnPress, which is a part of WordPress.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aiming for something like the Bininj Kunwok language course:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cathy Bow (Charles Darwin University) who designed the Bininj Kunwok course, with Jill Nganymirra (Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre) sent me some instructions on how to set it up in LearnPress - you can add audio and video and structure
the course into learning units as you want. Because it's on WordPress it should keep working for some time, without rebuilding, that's the big plus in my view. But I'm not sure yet how much it can tweaked to look good on tablets and phones.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 17:27, Peter Nyhuis <<a href="mailto:p.nyhuis@student.unimelb.edu.au">p.nyhuis@student.unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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It depends a lot on what kind of learners you have and what they hope to achieve. Are they adults or children? Are they heritage speakers or total outsiders to the language? Do they want to learn useful phrases, grammar, or do they want to expand their existing
vocabulary? Are they literate in their first language? <br>
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Most of the offerings out there (even Duolinguo, despite the way it sells itself) only really provide translation-based vocab training. If your learners don’t read English comfortably, or the platform doesn’t allow you to change the language of instruction
to one they can read, then it won’t be very useful. And in the case of Duolinguo, it’s not even designed to be an open platform that you can contribute languages to – even if you did manage to convince them to work on an Arrernte course, it may be difficult
for the language community to maintain ownership and control over the process. Memrise, on the other hand, allows contributions from anyone in any language, but is even more exclusively driven by translation-based vocab training. And if you are trying to teach
young kids, they're probably not going to be very excited by flashcard-based apps for long, no matter how shiny and colourful. Even for adults, staying committed to regular practice of a new language is always a struggle, with or without an app (as I’m sure
everyone here knows!). These flashcard apps work best when they support a larger learning pathway (including speaking practice, learning grammar, etc), rather than when they are just used in isolation.<br>
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However, if you do want to go down the flashcard road, it might be worth taking a look at Anki, which is (like Memrise) a so-called ‘spaced repetition system’. It’s much uglier to look at than Memrise, but it’s more flexible, allowing flashcards where you have
to fill the blanks (which can be useful for teaching grammar), or where you have a picture or video on one side and a word to learn on the other (which means you don’t have to rely on translation). It’s also open source, so if you have the funding you could
get a developer to take Anki’s basic system and then design an interface that suits your particular needs, and you wouldn’t have to pay Anki anything for it.
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If you’re looking for some non-flashcard ideas, when I was working in the Wubuy revitalisation program at Numbulwar school I prototyped a few web-based video games for teaching kinship terms, verb prefixes, directions and so forth – shoot me an email if you
would like to take a look. (They can all be freely adapted for other languages too)<br>
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teaching world as to their experiences.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>‘Memrise’</b> – which looks good from the point of view of accessibility, ease of use and vocabulary learning, however we would like something which is more sophisticated and allows learners to learn to build sentences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>‘Say something in’</b>
<span style="color:black">looks like it uses a lot of the same principles as master-apprentice, like focussing on intensive speaking and listening rather than reading and writing. This one has the advantage that the learner can listen and repeat without needing
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she is familiar with in that it uses flashcards and has a focus on speaking and listening as well as reading and writing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">We have tried to contact both Duolingo and Say Something In but have received no communication in response.
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