Using Internet Primary Resources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Languages

by Pasch, Grete

• ISBN13: 9780313312595
• ISBN10: 0313312591
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781567508826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc
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Summary

Language teachers, social studies teachers, and school library media specialists will find this resource invaluable for providing lessons and activities in critical thinking for students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 200 primary source Internet sites covering the Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Latin languages. Each Web site will help reinforce language skills while providing students with interactive lessons on the unique culture of the peoples who speak the language. The next best thing to visiting the country itself! For each of the 56 primary Web sites, a site summary is given describing its contents and usefulness to teachers and school library media specialists. Site subjects may include: a country's radio or news program; the history of a country and its visual arts, including museums; foods eaten by the people who speak this language and recipes on how to prepare them; ceremonies, customs, and sports enjoyed; geography of the countries who speak this language; and sites to help practice the language itself. Following are a list of questions and activities which students can prepare orally or in written form, and at least four more related Web sites are provided for further study. Using this book will not only help students increase their language skills, but it will also open up the entire culture, to enable students to experience it just as if they were visiting!

Author Biography

GRETE PASCH, MLIS, is the Library Technology Consultant for the Texas State Library and an Instructor for the University of Texas, where she designed and teaches a Web-based Internet course.KENT NORSWORTHY is the Associate Content Director for the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Part I The Internet, Primary Sources, and Critical Thinking
The Internet and World Language Teaching	1	(5)
Primary Sources in World Language Teaching	6	(1)
Selection Criteria	7	(2)
Overview of Critical Thinking	9	(6)
The Need for Critical Thinking	15	(12)
Part II World Languages
Chinese, with Yuwu Song	27	(15)
The Yangtze's Wrath	27	(3)
Travel China Guide	30	(2)
Confucius Lun Yu (Analects)	32	(2)
Dao De Jing (Tao-te-Ching)	34	(1)
Wisdom of China	35	(1)
The Ballad of Mulan	36	(2)
Chinese Cultural Studies: Marco Polo	38	(1)
The Palace Museum	39	(3)
French	42	(16)
Dossier sur la Photographie	42	(1)
Zvi Har'Els Jules Verne Collection	43	(3)
Epicuria, le serveur de la gastronomie francaise	46	(1)
Secretariat d'Etat a l'Outre-mer	47	(2)
Le Louvre	49	(2)
La Tour Eiffel	51	(2)
Site Internet du Premier Ministre Francais	53	(2)
Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie	55	(3)
German	58	(17)
Neuland Entdecken: Deutschland	58	(1)
Nineteenth-Century German Stories	59	(2)
Germans to America: The German Migration to America	61	(2)
Entartete Kunst	63	(3)
Berlin.de	66	(2)
Deutsche Welle	68	(2)
The German Way and More	70	(2)
10,000 Deutsche Volkslieder	72	(3)
Japanese, with Jeffrey T. Adams	75	(13)
Schauwecker's Guide to Japan: History	75	(1)
Hiroshima Peace Site	76	(3)
Haiku for People!	79	(1)
Tea Hyakka	80	(1)
Rolling Your Own Sushi	81	(2)
Introduction to Sumo	83	(1)
byun byun Shinkansen	84	(2)
Kids Web Japan	86	(2)
Latin, with Richard Pelton	88	(13)
KET Distance Learning	88	(1)
Latin Teaching Materials at Saint Louis University	89	(2)
The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy	91	(2)
Classical Studies in Kentucky	93	(1)
Perseus Project	94	(4)
Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean	98	(1)
Bibliotheca Augustana	99	(1)
De Imperatoribus Romanis	99	(2)
Russian, with Andriy Adaryukov	101	(17)
An Online Russian Reference Grammar	101	(2)
The Voice of Russia	103	(2)
Revelations from the Russian Archives	105	(2)
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University	107	(2)
Orthodox Christianity in Russia	109	(2)
All about St. Petersburg for Tourists	111	(2)
The State Hermitage Museum	113	(2)
Little Russia in San Antonio, Texas	115	(3)
Spanish	118	(13)
La Idea del Icono	118	(1)
La Cocina Mexicana	119	(2)
Macondo: A Gabriel Garcia Marquez Web Site	121	(2)
Los Balcones de San Juan	123	(1)
Radio Television Espanola	124	(2)
Juan Luis Guerra y su 4:40. Letras	126	(1)
Telenovelas Internet	127	(2)
Diego Rivera: Museo Virtual	129	(2)
Bibliography	131	(2)
Index	133	(4)
About the Editors and Contributors	137