1. Selwa Alkadhi Dr. Nancy Lockwood Capstone Summer 2010 MASTER OF Instructional Science and Technology School of Information Technology and Communication Design California State University Monterey Bay

2. Language learning through context

3.  For security and logistical reasons, most of the troops named for deployment get selected not long before the actual deployment date.  It becomes critical that they get their language training in the most effective and efficient teaching methods that maximize their learning in the short time available.

4.  Because students will tend to forget isolated memorized words and phrases, this project will introduce the concept of incorporating words of different parts of speech in an additive manner in correspondence with their positions within a sentence structure according to a provided template.  Students will use the template to incorporate words from the Language Survival Kits (LSK) in order to produce relatively understandable survival sentences.

5. Each course taken throughout this program has provided me with the building blocks to improve my instructional approaches.

6. I have learned to analyze learning as a process, with causes and effects.

7. I have already started applying these acquired skills by creating my capstone, which I believe will enhance instruction on a wide scope within my department and potentially expand to other departments.

8. Analyze learners State objectives Select instructional methods, media, and materials Utilize media and materials Require learner participation Evaluate and revise

9. My module teaches to construct sentences in Iraqi dialect that are immediately useful in the context where they are needed. Learners recall the vocabulary and word order of the target language as they learned their first language: through context, experimentation, and repetition.

10. Because students are adult learners, they can understand ideas like “verb,” “noun,” and “sentence.” That gives me and the students a huge advantage that we didn’t have when they learned their first language.

11. Survival Sentence When (adverb) Where (noun) Action (verb) PronounsVerbsPrepositionsNounsAdverbs

12. go I to the house now 2. Verb 1. Pronoun 3. Preposition 4. Noun 5. Adverb 12345 Choose the components you want and then put them together.

13. Students learn a limited number of vocabulary. They learn how to formulate and express some simple sentences. They practice sentence structure by interchanging vocabulary of the same part of speech. They build on their new skills by adding more words one by one to the sentences they have already mastered. WHO WHAT WHERE

14. anee inta intee intoo iHna hoowa heeya humma rooH ta-Al jeeb akoo reed Ind o-gaf og-Od Let’s form a few simple sentences: just pronoun and verb Whether it’s in English or any other language, forming sentences is just an exercise in word mix ‘n match! (I go) (you come) (he bring) (I want) Pronouns In Target Language Verbs In Target Language (they stop)

15. anee rooH hnack bait lil hna inta intoo hoowa humma heeya iHna intee ji-sir ma-Tar Ham-mam si-jin mo-As-kar maT-Am soog ma-HaT-Ta hes-sa bAdain il-yoom ba-chir ta-Al o-gaf

16. MY FAMILY

17. That’s all folks!