 All right, so my name is Alexandra Wallo. I teach Ukrainian at the University of Kansas. And today I'll be talking a little bit about a relatively new open access resource for learning basic Ukrainian grammar. It's called Dobroforma, good form in English. And this is the website that is already accessible with about 75% of the resource, fully accessible. The project is currently being developed under the auspices of the University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center. And I'm the author. I don't have full-time collaborators, but I have been relying on the kind help of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as the OLC at the University of Kansas, who have been wonderful in helping with the technical side of this project. So this is a resource that covers the fundamentals of Ukrainian grammar, usually taught in first year courses of Ukrainian. It has a modular structure that allows instructors and students to pick and choose from a variety of grammar topics to supplement existing curricula. So this is not a standalone textbook. It really is a supplement to existing curricula. And I'll scroll down a little bit so you can see the topics that are already available here on the side. As you can see, we divide them all by grammar categories, by parts of speech, cases, et cetera. So far, we're finding out, because there are quite a few users of this website already. So so far, we're finding out that this resource works particularly well for false beginners in Ukrainian students who already have knowledge of another Slavic language like Russian, heritage learners, as well as intermediate level students who need to review, go back and review some Ukrainian grammar. When fully complete, this resource will have about 100 modules, and they're grouped into 30 units. And so far on the website, we have 24 of these units, which is about 75 modules covering a variety of topics. And the entire resource will be completed by September of 2021, so pretty soon. But everyone can already go and use the resources that are already on the website. So a few words about why I developed this. As you might know, as a Slavic language, Ukrainian is a very difficult language, quite difficult to acquire for learners whose native language is English. And it is particularly the grammar that is very difficult. Ukrainian, for instance, has seven cases, a complex verb system with two conjugations, and then within each of those groups that are further variations. And also it has a tricky notion of aspect. So even though we already have some very good first year Ukrainian textbooks on the market, including one OER, developed by colleagues from Canada, I always find that my students need more practice with grammar. And usually they need something that they can access at home outside of class so we don't spend class time on grammar work, and something that will be hopefully interactive and meaningful and will engage them in this further exploration and learning of Ukrainian grammar in a meaningful way. So this is why I developed this resource a little bit about the pedagogical approach. And then we'll go into one module and I'll show you around a little bit. And in fact, I'll go into the module now. We'll look at verbs and we'll look at one verb module that's about the present tense. And I hope you can see as I click on the website, you can see things happening. Good, great. So the modules consist of contextualized input and output activities. They're structured in such a way as to encourage students to process everything for meaning as well as for form. So we encourage them to map form to meaning. We introduce things very gradually. So I'll give you an example here. This particular unit, 21, is on the present tense of verbs. And in Ukrainian, there are six endings for the present tense for first, second, third person singular and first, second, third person plural. In addition to that, all verbs are divided into two big groups, two conjugations, and then there is further complexities, exceptions and variations within each group. And in regular curricula, all of this is presented at once to students as paradigms and charts. And then it's very difficult to get students to actually internalize these forms. So I take the processing instruction approach kind of developed most fully by Van Padden and Lee where I break up the paradigms and try as much as possible to explain one thing at a time, or it's not always possible in Slavic languages at least a few things at a time. So in this particular module, students are first introduced only to two forms in the present tense. So in this first task, you see two students that are discussing their plans for the summer and what they are doing in the summer. And you see that there are only two present tense forms being introduced in a dialogue in context. And then the dialogue is followed up by questions. There are both content questions and grammar questions. And the grammar questions encourage students to pay attention to form. And here is an example of one grammar question. Everything is machine-graded. Students receive automatic feedback to what they have done. And this, of course, makes this useful for students who are learning independently for homework, for independent review. This frees up time in the classroom for meaningful communication, which is what we should be doing in the classroom anyway, whether via Zoom or in person. And in that way, it's a helpful resource, I think. So then these broken-down paradigms are practiced, again, in these chunks. And some exceptions, some important information is highlighted in these text boxes, as this one called Vagilevo, Important. And then there is a variety of activities where students manipulate forms, again, processing everything both for meaning and for form. So in this one, they have to arrange lines of the dialogue in the correct order. And they have to read carefully and think about the meaning and the form as they do so. And then as we go on, there are drag-and-drop activities. And I'll show you one. Here's one task four, where there is a dialogue. And students have to drag-and-drop forms, again, only two types of forms here, but on two types of endings, but attached to different verbs. And in order to complete this activity, students have to read the dialogue, understand the meaning, as well as pay attention to form, which, again, is my approach to these materials. There is also oral input, oral activities, listening activities. And every module concludes with two types of activities. One is a kind of, we call it a language puzzle, a multi-puzzle, where students have to put everything that they have learned in the module together. And they have to answer some true and false questions about this grammar. And then there is a test. And in the test, this is where output comes in. Students already have to demonstrate their understanding, at least, of this grammar point by typing in correct grammar forms. In this case, we have a dialogue. We have a verb bank, so students have to choose from these verbs, which are listed in the infinitive. And before they fill in any blank, they have to think both about the meaning of the sentence and the form, of course, of the form of the present tense that they have to use. And again, this is machine graded. So at the end, they click check to see how well they have done. Now, at this point, the website does not have the capability to register how each student completes this work. But what I do with my students is I ask them to complete the module, then complete the test, hit on this check button, and make sure that they have gotten everything right. And if they haven't, to go back and correct, self-correct, and make sure they complete the test with 100% correct answers. And they take a screenshot. Then they take a screenshot and they email me the screenshot to prove that they have completed this module, let's say, for homework. So each module takes anywhere between eight and 15 minutes to complete, depending on the level of the student and the complexity of the topic. All modules of the entire website is accessible on a mobile device. So students theoretically could be sitting on the bus to class and practicing Ukrainian grammar on their phones. And I have seen students do this, which is quite nice to see. Another feature of this resource is that I based all of the input in all of these modules on 1,000 most commonly used and frequently taught in elementary Ukrainian words. And I arrived at this 1,000 by working with Ukrainian frequency lists, cross-checking them with the Ukrainian corpus, as well as the current Ukrainian textbooks on the market, first year textbooks, just to make sure that this will be compatible with these textbooks and that students who are novice level students will be able to complete these modules. And there is a high likelihood that most of these words will be known to them already. The focus really is on acquiring grammar, not acquiring vocabulary, although the hope is, of course, that as you complete more and more of these modules, you will also internalize some of this vocabulary as well. And a final note is that all of this will be completed, as I said, by September 2021. The website has been live already for about 13 months. And it has gotten some use already. We are tracking through Google Analytics, who is using the website in what countries. And it's looking good. There are quite a few users in the United States, quite a few in Canada. Some in Poland, some in Ukraine. And as the resource becomes more complete, and we deal with all of the little bugs in it and make sure everything is typo-free, et cetera, I think more and more students and learners will be coming back to it and using it in the future. So that is all for me. I tried to be very brief, and I'll be happy to answer any questions. I'll leave my email in the chat. And I will also leave the link to the resource in the chat if anyone is interested to explore it. Thank you very much. Yeah, so we used WordPress for the website, and then the interactive activities are done with H5P.