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EduNovela.com is a product line from Tree Frog Publishing LLC that produces highly edited, engaging online versions of real Spanish television series to supplement classroom or individual learning of Spanish. The project is used over a period of time such as one academic year, or for the individual user, at one’s own pace.

EduNovela.com utilizes 1:1 user differentiated technology with authentic media made comprehensible through multiple help functions. Not unlike material preferred for Comprehensible Input[1], EduNovela.com’s media is both comprehensible and interesting to the learner[2] due to the use of its real, authentic television programming and multiple help functions. Authentic[3] video on the site is originally television programming made by native speakers for native speakers, not for the classroom.

EduNovela.com facilitates student learning via its own edited television episodes by offering narrated pre-readings at differentiated speeds, differentiated speed-controlled video in short segments known as segmentation[4], scene summaries, mini-comprehension quizzes, vocabulary, and Spanish subtitles to increase the authentic material’s comprehensibility. The user may take a short quiz at the end to assess overall understanding of the language in context of the continuing storyline. Follow-up activities happen in the classroom. Teachers can access “El salón de los profesores” to find free storytelling activities to guide classroom discussions. One unique added feature of EduNovela.com’s new program is the ability for teachers to share or collaborate on free activities for each episode. Teachers also receive a generous bank of printables and other fun classroom enhancements.

Users will quickly find high frequency verbs and vocabulary form a basis for the classroom conversations surrounding EduNovela.com’s products. Redundancy and shared knowledge[5] are both important aspects to the EduNovela.com method. Independent home users will find the online, shared forums particularly useful for this purpose.

TPR Storytelling (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling)[6] is the methodology promoted[7] for use in classroom discussions after the student user accesses the authentic material 1:1. Teachers are able to use these Storytelling components in the classroom by including content from episodes in routine lesson plans to tell the academic-year-long continuing story. Teachers are also encouraged[8] to choose from the array of storylines and characters to make their assessments, thus forging mental connections for students while being tested, a commonly suggested practice both inside and outside of language teaching.[9]

EduNovela.com currently offers two television series: Silvana sin lana, originally from NBCUniversal Telemundo; and Gran Hotel, originally from Series Atresmedia and Bambú Spain. Silvana sin lana is for 8th-10th graders in high school Spanish 1 or 2, while Gran Hotel is for AP/dual credit high school Spanish or College Spanish 2. Both series are also available for independent learners and corporate groups outside of a class setting. Each series consists of 42 episodes edited to be more suitable for Spanish learners, 15 minutes per episode for Silvana sin lana, and 20 minutes per episode for Gran Hotel.

The programs, which learners can use in class, as assigned homework, purely online, in a lab, or any combination over the course of an academic year, are enticing to students because they provide educational material with characters and continuing storylines that one can connect to. Learners are more likely to progress better and learn more deeply if they have stories to connect to.[10]

Silvana sin lana, produced by NBCUniversal Telemundo but based on a script from Mega Chile, is the story of a wealthy woman, her mother, and her daughters whose husband/father abandons them after some shady business dealings go bad. Overnight, Silvana and her daughters and mother lose everything they have including their home. Silvana, who has always been a stay at home mother with no want for anything, suddenly needs to learn to be independent. She immediately finds the family a new home, finds a new job, and reinvents their entire lives in a working class neighborhood of Miami.

Silvana (also called “Chivis”) rents a duplex next to the Gallardo family. The father, Manuel, a widower with four children, has a fish wholesaling business at the port. He has a rocky start to his relationship with his new neighbor though his sons do not. The two families soon become very close, disrupting the lives of others dear to them. The romantic comedy centers on the need for the family to quickly adapt to their new lifestyle without luxuries, some of them doing much better than others.

Gran Hotel is a classic and beautifully filmed television series produced by Bambú and distributed by Series Atresmedia. The original series is three seasons long but has been significantly reduced for the academic year calendar into 42 twenty minute episodes. The story follows the journey of a young man from a rural town, Julio Olmedo, who searches for his sister who has gone missing after working at the Gran Hotel in the outskirts of Cantaloa, in the north of Spain. Originally filmed in the beautiful Palace of the Magdalena, in Santander, Spain, the viewer watches as Julio becomes a waiter at the Gran Hotel in order to investigate the disappearance and likely murder of his sister. He quickly meets the intelligent and independent Alicia Alarcón, daughter of the owner. Alicia helps Julio investigate his sister’s disappearance.

Learning Spanish by watching continuing tv series and telenovelas has long been a methodology used by many instructors and individuals all over the world[11]. This methodology was used for decades at Northwestern University where the prototypes for EduNovela.com were first conceived.

EduNovela.com was founded by SheriAnn Simpson Ph.D., a former instructor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has also been an Associate Professor, Chair of Modern Languages, and taught middle school and high school Spanish. Authors are from Northwestern University, the University of Iowa, U.S.C., and several high schools across the U.S.A.

References[edit]

  1. "Comprehensible Input". Teaching English. British Council. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. Krashen, Stephen (2003). Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use. Portsouth, NH: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0325005546. Search this book on
  3. Polio, Charlene. "Using Authentic Materials in the Beginning Language Classroom" (PDF). Michigan State University. CLEAR News. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. Altman, Rick (1989). The Video Connection: Integrating Video Into Language Teaching. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 12. ISBN 0395481430. Search this book on
  5. Buck, Gary (2010). Assessing Listening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780511732959. Search this book on
  6. "What is TPRS?". TPRS Books. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  7. Altman, Rick (1989). The Video Connection: Integrating Video Into Language Teaching. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 7. ISBN 0395481430. Search this book on
  8. Sherman, Jane (2003). Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 42–43. ISBN 978-0521799614. Search this book on
  9. Brown, Peter C.; Roediger, Henry L.; McDaniel, Mark A. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674729018. Search this book on
  10. Brown, Peter C.; Roediger, Henry L.; McDaniel, Mark A. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674729018. Search this book on
  11. Cohen, Elizabeth. "The Television Trick to Learning a New Language". CNN. Retrieved 28 June 2018.


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