EP02: Are Students Practicing or Communicating? With Joshua Cabral

Welcome to the 2nd episode of Inspired Proficiency - with Ashley Uyaguari! Inspired Proficiency is a podcast for language teachers created by language teachers - featuring interviews, tricks, resources, and tons of inspiration for your classroom!  In this episode Ashley talks about the following: Shares some idea for adding fun to your classroom Interviews Joshua Cabral of World Language Classroom “Bestie Battles”- Game Show Ashley and Joshua discuss whether students are practicing or communicating. Joshua defines both concepts, and give examples of exercises and tasks. Joshua’s tips for creating tasks will get your students communicating at any proficiency level!  “Bestie Battles” features Nathan Lutz & Amanda Seewald vs. Jenny Delfini & Beth Slocum - in a Newlywed style game show where they try to guess their colleague’s answers for a variety of questions. Which team will be victorious? Be sure to play along!  Things We Mention In This Episode: Joshua’s Blog World Language Classroom Joshua’s Communicative Activities Joshua’s Exercises and Tasks Joshua’s Feedback Ashley’s Blog NECTFL   Links to resources: La Maestra Loca National Network for Early Language Learning World Language Classroom CI Lift Off CI Posse Inspired Proficiency Facebook Page    The artwork for Inspired Proficiency was created by Julie Speno with music by Cody Crabb