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Title: Project: Online Dictionary for Students of Spanish
Body: From http://www.teleprensa.es/sevilla-noticia-235934-Elaboran-un-nuevo-diccionario-on-line-para-los-estudiantes-de-espa26ntilde3Bol.html Elaboran un nuevo diccionario on line para los estudiantes de español Estará listo para finales del año 2011 11 de septiembre 2010 El título del proyecto de investigación no ofrece ninguna duda sobre el objetivo del mismo: Nuevo diccionario de aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera de difusión on line. Stefan Ruhstaller -profesor de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla y director académico de su Máster de español como lengua extranjera- y su equipo han detectado la necesidad de una buena obra lexicográfica destinada a un creciente público estudiante del español y con un nivel medio de competencia del idioma que esté “al nivel de las mejores obras del género existentes para otros idiomas”. “Queremos un nuevo instrumento eficaz y de difusión universal que potencie y mejore el aprendizaje de este idioma pujante”. Read the full article at http://www.teleprensa.es/sevilla-noticia-235934-Elaboran-un-nuevo-diccionario-on-line-para-los-estudiantes-de-espa26ntilde3Bol.html
Source: Teleprensa
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Title: Grito de Dolores Video
Body: 200 Gritos September 16, 2010 Bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence 1810—2010 A YouTube video is now online to help you and your students celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (Grito de Dolores), when Miguel Hidalgo and Salvador Allende rang Mexico’s liberty bell and called for independence from Spain. Click here to watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn4RzQiGwSU For FREE SKILLSHEETS AND TEACHER’S GUIDE to go with this video, contact judconaway at earthlink dot net . Johnson, L. CLTA News Flash - September 1, 2010. California Language Teachers’ Association listserv (clta@clta.net, 1 Sep 2010).
Source: CLTA
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Title: TEFLclips: Ideas for Using Video in a Language Classroom
Body: From http://www.teflclips.com/?page_id=2 The phenomenon of video sharing in general and YouTube in particular is currently asserting its influence on news, politics, law, music, entertainment, advertising and many other areas of society. For the language teacher, YouTube may be the single best source of material the classroom has ever seen. This website has been set up in order to address some of these questions. Through a series of lesson plans and teaching ideas, the aim is to explore the possibilities for the use of sites such as YouTube in education with a special emphasis on language teaching. As a sideline to the lesson plans and teaching ideas - which will be posted on a weekly basis - a large list of links to useful or notable videos is being compiled (see Clips Bank) as well as a section which looks at technical aspects such as how to download or ‘capture’ YouTube videos so that they can be stored on a memory stick and taken into class (see How to). The website is available at http://www.teflclips.com
Source: TEFLclips
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Title: Article: California English Language Learners Are Learning Faster
Body: From http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/03/3002667/californias-english-learner-students.html California’s ‘English learner’ students are learning faster By Phillip Reese and Melody Gutierrez September 10, 2010 Several new sets of data suggest that "English learners" are picking up the language faster. In fact, the figures show fewer English learners in California public schools, period. The number of students who aren't proficient in English dropped to its lowest level in about a decade during 2010, both in Sacramento County and statewide. It's not that fewer English-language learners are enrolling in school. The number of students who don't speak English at home is significantly higher today than it was a decade ago. About 11 of every 12 kindergartners from those homes are deemed English learners. But those children are being reclassified quickly. Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/03/3002667/californias-english-learner-students.html#ixzz0zCIVjSuM
Source: Sacramento Bee
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Title: Article: Feds Probing Bias Claims against Arizona's Non-native English Speaking Teachers
Body: From http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/2010/09/08/20100908arizona-teachers-federal-government-investigation.html Feds probing bias claims against Arizona's non-native English speaking teachers by Kerry Fehr-Snyde September 8, 2010 The federal government is investigating whether Arizona has discriminated against teachers who are not native English speakers, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne confirmed Tuesday. The state Department of Education for years has been monitoring English fluency of teachers who instruct English learners, but in April began instructing districts to fire teachers who weren't proficient in the language. At issue is a push by the state Department of Education to get tough on teachers who lack basic English skills or whose grammar is considered so poor that it could detract from children's ability to learn. Critics of the state's policy have said that it could eliminate talented teachers who have a positive influence on students struggling to learn English and that criticisms of teachers often are based on minor grammatical errors. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/2010/09/08/20100908arizona-teachers-federal-government-investigation.html#ixzz0zC1UebtX
Source: AZ Central
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Title: Clipart Metasite
Body: A collection of links to clipart sites, organized by topic, is available at http://caslt.org/resources/general/program-support-clip-art_en.php
Source: CASLT
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Title: Getting to Know You Activities for Young Children
Body: From http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/karen-cox/getting-to-know-you-activities-karens-pre-k-page Getting to Know You Activities – Karen’s Pre-K Page By Karen Cox Many children have difficulty learning the names of their classmates, some children more so than others, especially in a large class. For a few weeks, children might call their classmate “the boy in the blue shirt,” which is difficult (and amusing) in a school that requires uniforms, and every boy is “the boy in the blue shirt.” These are games we play at the beginning of the school year to help children learn each other’s names. Read descriptions of the games at http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/karen-cox/getting-to-know-you-activities-karens-pre-k-page
Source: Teachers.net
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Title: Create Games with ArmoredPenguin
Body: Generate your own crossword puzzles, word searches, word scrambles, and more at http://armoredpenguin.com
Source: ArmoredPenguin
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Title: Book: Teaching and Researching: Motivation
Body: From http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,1408205025,00.html Teaching and Researching: Motivation, 2/E By Zoltán Dörnyei and Ema Ushioda Publisher: Pearson Summary: Learner motivation is critical to success. This book combines Dornyei's own well-known theory of language motivation, with a comprehensive review of both the psychological and the second language literature. Teaching and Researching: Motivation gives guidance on useful resources, including relevant websites, lists of key reference works and over 150 actual questionnaire items that have formed the basis of the author's extensive field research. Visit the publisher’s website at http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,1408205025,00.html
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Title: Brief: Where Do English Language Learner Students Go to School in Arizona?
Body: Research suggests certain schools face greater challenges in effectively teaching their English language learner (ELL) students and in closing the achievement gap between these students and those who are native English speakers. Those schools are ones with high concentrations of English language learner students, high populations of students living in poverty, and those located in rural and urban areas. Research also suggests that an open-enrollment program in a district may increase the concentrations of both English language learner and socioeconomically disadvantaged students in some schools. Students generally moved to schools outside their neighborhood that had equal or greater concentrations of students like themselves, such as by race or socioeconomic status. The technical brief, Where do English language learner students go to school? Student distribution by language proficiency in Arizona, analyzes Arizona’s 2007/08 student-level data to determine how concentrations of English language learner students vary across its schools and by the school characteristics listed above. Key findings include: -Schools with smaller concentrations (19 or fewer) of English language learner students were not required to submit disaggregated adequate yearly progress reports that group students or to implement the state’s new four-hour a day English Language Development pullout program for English language learner students. These schools represented 41 percent of Arizona’s schools. -Schools with larger concentrations (40 or more) of English language learner students were required to both disaggregate adequate yearly progress data and implement the new English Language Development pullout program. These schools represented 45 percent of Arizona’s schools. -Schools with 20–39 English language learner students were required to implement the new English Language Development pullout program but not to disaggregate adequate yearly progress data. These schools represented 14 percent of Arizona’s schools. -Schools with a majority of English language learner students were more prevalent among primary schools than among middle and high schools, among traditional public schools than among alternative and charter schools, and in schools where more than 75 percent of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. -Schools with no English language learner students were more prevalent in high schools, charter schools, and schools where no students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. Download the brief at http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?projectID=237
Source: NCELA List
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