Authentic materials provide a glimpse into other cultures and they allow language learners to explore cultures creatively. Using Yabla and other authentic videos help learners hone listening and speaking skills while increasing cultural literacy. Language learning websites immerse students virtually into target cultures. Yabla, when combined with other materials, helps learners develop stronger communication skills.

1. YABLA
Online Language Immersion
Presented by Tracy E.Rucker
tdeux35m@yahoo.com or trucker@loucol.com
French Teacher
Louisville Collegiate School
Louisville, Kentucky

2. Designing lessons
Input Vocabulary, Culture, Grammar,
Authentic Language in context!

3. Watch & Connect to others in the
world
The World French-speaking world

4. http://www.yabla.com
Chinese, French, & Spanish
• Language Immersion
Through Online Video
• The revolutionary way to
immerse yourself in a
foreign language is here!
• Only Yabla language
immersion sites give you
authentic television, music
videos, drama, interviews,
travel, and Yabla exclusive
shoots from throughout the
world. Our unique player
technology is designed with
language learners in mind:
Slow Play, Integrated
Dictionaries, Listening Game,
Dual Language Subtitles, and
more.

5. Benefits of Yabla
Watching Videos
• Watch videos on slow play
to review and slow down
the video
– Better understand what is
being said and vocabulary
and other idiomatic
expressions
– Learner hears actual
inflexions of words and
accents the way native
speakers produce them
Learning from Videos
• 100% Native Speakers
• Videos are contemporary,
interesting, and engaging

6. Students in Action
Listening Comprehension Vocabulary Acquisition

8. Assessment 1
Reading & Discuss
• Blogs
• Poems
• Information on the Internet
• Magazine articles in target
language
Listening
• Songs
• Podcasts
• Other Yabla videos with
similar them (without
sound, even)
• Search Youtube or other
online sources for similar
material

9. Assessment 2
Speaking
• Give essential question with
theme from a video; ask
students to reflect for 4
minutes about the question
and then speak to you for 2
minutes about question
• Short, paired work with
other students
• Using a picture as a prompt,
ask students to tie in the
Yabla video with a picture
Writing
• Journal
• Blog
• Short paragraphs
• Text messages or Emails to
teacher or to each other
about video

10. Student Feedback
• The videos we watched were among my
favorite activities
• Watching movies expanded my vocabulary
• I loved Yabla days!
• …loved being able to learn about another
culture
• I liked watching the movies most of all the
activities we did in class