Category: Design Notes
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UCSD’s 2nd Annual Vietnamese Folk Games Festival
On May 23rd, 2026, the Vietnamese Language Program at UC San Diego Linguistics Department hosted its second annual Vietnamese Folk Games Festival at Sixth College Lawn, and it turned out to be an unforgettable afternoon. Under the warm San Diego sun, students in the Vietnamese heritage language program and their friends gathered for an afternoon…
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Vietnamese Folk Games Day at UC San Diego
On Saturday, (May 17, 2025) with the support from the Linguistic Department, the Vietnamese students and community gathered at the Sixth College East Lawn for a vibrant two-hour celebration of Vietnamese culture through traditional folk games. Organized by the student in the Advanced Vietnamese class LIHL134P and the lecturer Hoan Nguyen, the event featured a variety of…
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Strategies in Teaching Vietnamese as a Heritage Language
Within this portfolio, a key component of our learning journey during the summer workshop, we’ve highlighted two strategies that have significantly shaped our approach to teaching heritage language learners. (Recording and complete slide decks are available upon request). [Portfolio submitted as part of 2023 Virtual Heritage Language Teacher Workshop at UCLA]
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H5P Activity: Sort the Paragraphs
In this teaching notes, I am going to demonstrate how teachers can modify the difficulty level of a task or activity by using one text and with the same H5P activity. The H5P activity I am choosing is: Sorting the Paragraphs in which learners will be asked to place a number of sentences or short…