high school or college - tapping the expertise of international students

Thinking about a nearby rural high school with a disproportionate number of foreign exchange students, it makes sense to invite int'l students to record either narration to a set of slides *in their native language* or in the form of "show and tell" video recording, again in native language.

The purpose is multiple:

1. Validate languages other than English

 

2. Build up a small digital library of language samples for language learners, or at universities that train future teachers this bank of recordings would constitute samples to expose their future precollege students to.

 

3. Provide a scaffolding for int'l students that prompts them to compose an image of their home place from their current (USA) vantage point

 

4. Unintended consequences: stimulating the subjects to use the method for other applications, for example, or triggering an bigger project or composite versions that triangulate differing life experiences from subjects of the same language or nation, but with differing perspectives.