Can you suggest resources for tracking French learning milestones over three months

Here are suggested resources and ideas for tracking French learning milestones over a three-month period:

1. Self-Monitoring Tools for Language Learning:

   • Tools like “MILESTONES,” which is a semi-automated self-monitoring system for tracking learning progress and reflecting on learning habits, can be adapted for tracking French language learning milestones. These systems often offer visual progress overviews and encourage self-reflection and adjustment of learning goals. ¹

2. Language Learning Progressions and Milestones Frameworks:

   • Educational research uses language learning progressions to monitor growth in language abilities at different levels, such as word, sentence, and discourse skills. Frameworks inspired by studies on bilingual oral language development and language learning progressions can guide milestone setting for French learners. ²

3. Developmental Milestones for Language Acquisition:

   • While largely for child language development, milestone frameworks (e.g., developmental surveillance guidelines) provide age- and stage-appropriate targets that can be adapted for setting realistic short-term goals in language learning. ³

4. Vocabulary and Grammar Assessment Tools:

   • Tests such as LexTALE_FR offer quick assessments of French vocabulary knowledge to regularly check learner proficiency progress. Similarly, grammar-focused assessments, whether standardized or self-administered, help track progress in productive French grammar abilities. ^{4, 5}

5. Using Language Learning Diaries or Journals:

   • Keeping a language learning diary or using mobile apps that prompt recording and reflection on language usage helps track personal milestones and challenges through the learning process. ⁶

6. Customized Progress Monitoring Approaches:

   • Consider building a personalized checklist or spreadsheet with milestones like mastering basic vocabulary sets, forming simple sentences, understanding common phrases, improving pronunciation, and grasping grammatical structures, measured weekly or monthly over three months.

These tools and frameworks can be used individually or combined to create a structured approach for tracking French learning milestones over three months tailored to the learner’s goals and level. ^{5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6}

References

• MILESTONES: The Design and Field Evaluation of a Semi-Automated Tool for Promoting Self-Directed Learning Among Online Learners

• Bilingual oral language development among dual language immersion students: Use of a Bayesian approach with language learning progressions

• Evidence-based milestone ages as a framework for developmental surveillance.

• Elementary School First Graders’ Acquisition of Productive L2 French Grammar in Regular and CLIL Programs

• Lextale_FR A Fast, Free, and Efficient Test to Measure Language Proficiency in French

• Theory-based Support for Mobile Language Learning: Noticing and Recording

• Difficulties in Nonadjacent Dependency Learning in French-Learning Toddlers.

• Variable forms in French-learning toddlers’ lexical representations.

• Understanding the What and When of Analogical Reasoning Across Analogy Formats: An Eye‐Tracking and Machine Learning Approach

• A Comprehensive Review of Deep Learning and Machine Learning Techniques for Real-Time Car Detection and Wrong-Way Vehicle Tracking

• Inverter PQ Control With Trajectory Tracking Capability for Microgrids Based on Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning

• Attention and learning in L2 multimodality: A webcam-based eye-tracking study

• Learning Dual-Level Deep Representation for Thermal Infrared Tracking

• Longitudinal Reliability of Milestones Learning Trajectories during Anesthesiology Residency

• Anesthesiology Milestones 1.0: Residents’ Learning Trajectories and Training Outcomes.

• Francographe : un outil d’évaluation des compétences orthographiques d’enfants entre 7 et 12 ans

• A Context-Aligned Two Thousand Test: Toward estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent learners in England

• From FreEM to D’AlemBERT: a Large Corpus and a Language Model for Early Modern French

• Online synchronous communication in the second-language classroom

• CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model

• Literacy Acquisition: A Plus Factor in French Children’s Word Segmentation After 5 Years of Age

• French error type annotation for dictation: A platform with automatic error type annotation for French dictation exercises

• Progress Monitoring of Language Acquisition and Academic Content for English Learners

• Learning to Read in Multiple Languages: A Study Exploring Allophone Students’ Reading Development in French Immersion

• How the CEFR Is Impacting French-as-a-Second-Language in Ontario, Canada: Teachers’ Self-Reported Instructional Practices and Students’ Proficiency Exam Results

• Development of Second Language French Oral Skills in an Instructed Setting: A Focus on Speech Ratings