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Title: BBC Poll: Germany Most Popular Country in the World
Body: From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22624104 Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. More than 26,000 people were surveyed internationally for the poll. They were asked to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the world was "mainly positive" or "mainly negative". Germany came out top, with 59% rating it positively. Iran was once again the most negatively viewed. Read the full article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22624104
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Title: BBC Poll: Germany Most Popular Country in the World
Body: From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22624104 Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year's annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. More than 26,000 people were surveyed internationally for the poll. They were asked to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the world was "mainly positive" or "mainly negative". Germany came out top, with 59% rating it positively. Iran was once again the most negatively viewed. Read the full article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22624104
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Title: Games Night at the Goethe-Institut in Boston
Body: From http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en10921578v.htm?code=1305 Games Night Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 8 pm Goethe-Institut Boston free admission Do you want to join the Goethe-Institut for a games night in German? All course participants are welcome. They'll offer a German quiz and a variety of board games. Practice your communication skills and win some prizes! Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. For more details go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en10921578v.htm?code=1305
Source: Goethe-Institut Boston
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Title: Games Night at the Goethe-Institut in Boston
Body: From http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en10921578v.htm?code=1305 Games Night Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 8 pm Goethe-Institut Boston free admission Do you want to join the Goethe-Institut for a games night in German? All course participants are welcome. They'll offer a German quiz and a variety of board games. Practice your communication skills and win some prizes! Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. For more details go to http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/ver/en10921578v.htm?code=1305
Source: Goethe-Institut Boston
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Title: SpinTX Video Archive for Texas Spanish
Body: The SpinTX video archive provides a convenient web interface to search hundreds of short video clips extracted from the Spanish in Texas Corpus, a collection of interviews with bilingual speakers. The SpinTX video archive allows users to explore selected content from the corpus in order to learn about language and culture in Texas from local Spanish speakers. Each video clip in the archive is accompanied by a synchronized closed caption and a transcript that has been annotated for thematic content, vocabulary, grammatical and discourse features, and for information about the speaker. Users can search the video archive by keyword and filter their results using the different annotation levels. Educators can automatically highlight or hide selected words or grammatical features within the transcript, tag videos for features that match their interests, and share their favorite collections in playlists. The SpinTX video archive is available at http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/spintx Learn more about the Spanish in Texas Corpus at http://spanishintexas.org
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Title: SpinTX Video Archive for Texas Spanish
Body: The SpinTX video archive provides a convenient web interface to search hundreds of short video clips extracted from the Spanish in Texas Corpus, a collection of interviews with bilingual speakers. The SpinTX video archive allows users to explore selected content from the corpus in order to learn about language and culture in Texas from local Spanish speakers. Each video clip in the archive is accompanied by a synchronized closed caption and a transcript that has been annotated for thematic content, vocabulary, grammatical and discourse features, and for information about the speaker. Users can search the video archive by keyword and filter their results using the different annotation levels. Educators can automatically highlight or hide selected words or grammatical features within the transcript, tag videos for features that match their interests, and share their favorite collections in playlists. The SpinTX video archive is available at http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/spintx Learn more about the Spanish in Texas Corpus at http://spanishintexas.org
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Title: Ideas for Celebrating the End of the School Year with Your English Language Learners
Body: Larry Ferlazzo and Katherine Schulten share a long and well-described list of ideas and resources for helping English language learners to reflect on this last school year as it comes to a close: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/ideas-for-english-language-learners-celebrating-the-end-of-the-school-year Also last week Mr. Ferlazzo asked Education Week readers and invited guests to suggest ways to use class time during the last two weeks of school. Read their suggestions here: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2013/05/response_ways_to_use_class_time_during_the_last_two_weeks_of_school.html Here’s another list of ways to digitally celebrate this last year, from Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers blog: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/05/five-ways-to-digitally-celebrate-your.html#.UZ0cEetAuVU
Source: New York Times
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Title: Ideas for Celebrating the End of the School Year with Your English Language Learners
Body: Larry Ferlazzo and Katherine Schulten share a long and well-described list of ideas and resources for helping English language learners to reflect on this last school year as it comes to a close: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/ideas-for-english-language-learners-celebrating-the-end-of-the-school-year Also last week Mr. Ferlazzo asked Education Week readers and invited guests to suggest ways to use class time during the last two weeks of school. Read their suggestions here: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2013/05/response_ways_to_use_class_time_during_the_last_two_weeks_of_school.html Here’s another list of ways to digitally celebrate this last year, from Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers blog: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/05/five-ways-to-digitally-celebrate-your.html#.UZ0cEetAuVU
Source: New York Times
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Title: ESL Hip Hop Website
Body: From http://eslhiphop.com/home Do your English learners like hip hop? Here is a website dedicated to using hip hop songs and information about artists for helping people learn English. The latest post discusses Sir Mix-a-Lot and his hit “Baby Got Back” in simple English and includes a lesson on the modal verb “can” as well as a karaoke version of the song: http://eslhiphop.com/2013/05/modal-verb-can-with-sir-mix-a-lot Explore this website at http://eslhiphop.com/home
Source: ESL Hip Hop
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Title: ESL Hip Hop Website
Body: From http://eslhiphop.com/home Do your English learners like hip hop? Here is a website dedicated to using hip hop songs and information about artists for helping people learn English. The latest post discusses Sir Mix-a-Lot and his hit “Baby Got Back” in simple English and includes a lesson on the modal verb “can” as well as a karaoke version of the song: http://eslhiphop.com/2013/05/modal-verb-can-with-sir-mix-a-lot Explore this website at http://eslhiphop.com/home
Source: ESL Hip Hop
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Title: Schools Face Shortage of Digital Curricula for English-Learners
Body: From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/05/22/32el-ell.h32.html Schools Face Shortage of Digital Curricula for English-Learners Facing a shortage of digital curricula for ELLs, educators often turn to general content By Michelle R. Davis May 20, 2013 Because there's not a plethora of digital curricula designed exclusively for English-language learners, teachers often rely on digital curricula used for all students that help individualize lessons, as well as software programs tailored for English language learners, said C. Patrick Proctor, an associate professor of literacy and bilingualism at Boston College. But today's digital offerings make both varieties useful, he says. In 2011, Mr. Proctor, along with several other researchers, published the results of a study that used digital curricula designed specifically for ELL students. In a project dubbed Improving Comprehension Online, or ICON, researchers created multimedia folktales and informational texts that included clickable words with definitions in English or Spanish, along with images for students whose English proficiency was very low. The text contained built-in audio, so that students could hear it in English or in Spanish, as well as embedded activities for reflection in both languages. The researchers followed 5th graders working with the curricula and found a measurable increase in vocabulary knowledge and text comprehension, said Bridget Dalton, an associate professor in literacy studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who also worked on the project. Read on to find out what features to look for in digital curricula that English learners may use: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/05/22/32el-ell.h32.html?tkn=XYCCoEdaQ3rQAmlEkZIKT1r4GMU%2FDagWrjxs&cmp=clp-sb-ascd
Source: Education Week
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Title: Schools Face Shortage of Digital Curricula for English-Learners
Body: From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/05/22/32el-ell.h32.html Schools Face Shortage of Digital Curricula for English-Learners Facing a shortage of digital curricula for ELLs, educators often turn to general content By Michelle R. Davis May 20, 2013 Because there's not a plethora of digital curricula designed exclusively for English-language learners, teachers often rely on digital curricula used for all students that help individualize lessons, as well as software programs tailored for English language learners, said C. Patrick Proctor, an associate professor of literacy and bilingualism at Boston College. But today's digital offerings make both varieties useful, he says. In 2011, Mr. Proctor, along with several other researchers, published the results of a study that used digital curricula designed specifically for ELL students. In a project dubbed Improving Comprehension Online, or ICON, researchers created multimedia folktales and informational texts that included clickable words with definitions in English or Spanish, along with images for students whose English proficiency was very low. The text contained built-in audio, so that students could hear it in English or in Spanish, as well as embedded activities for reflection in both languages. The researchers followed 5th graders working with the curricula and found a measurable increase in vocabulary knowledge and text comprehension, said Bridget Dalton, an associate professor in literacy studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who also worked on the project. Read on to find out what features to look for in digital curricula that English learners may use: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/05/22/32el-ell.h32.html?tkn=XYCCoEdaQ3rQAmlEkZIKT1r4GMU%2FDagWrjxs&cmp=clp-sb-ascd
Source: Education Week
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Title: Advocacy Resource: Foreign Languages: An Essential Core Experience
Body: A few years ago InterCom described Dr. Robert D. Peckham’s online essay and numerous links supporting the study of foreign languages (http://casls.uoregon.edu/intercom/site/view-article.php?ArticleID=12964 ) Dr. Peckham has recently updated this resource with recent articles supporting language study. Visit the revised website at http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/french/flsat.html
Source: University of Tennessee at Martin
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Title: Advocacy Resource: Foreign Languages: An Essential Core Experience
Body: A few years ago InterCom described Dr. Robert D. Peckham’s online essay and numerous links supporting the study of foreign languages (http://casls.uoregon.edu/intercom/site/view-article.php?ArticleID=12964 ) Dr. Peckham has recently updated this resource with recent articles supporting language study. Visit the revised website at http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/french/flsat.html
Source: University of Tennessee at Martin
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Title: Children's Literature Builds Global Competence
Body: From http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/childrens-literature-builds-global-competence The youngest readers can become armchair travelers. Children’s literature about the world and its cultures compels young minds to investigate ways of life and thinking that can be different—or quite similar—to their own. It offers important perspectives as students build basic literacy skills. When young learners finish a book about another culture, ask them to: Recount the story in their own words, and listen to see if they use new vocabulary used in the story. Compare and contrast this story with another similar story. Are there common themes (e.g. good versus bad) or storytelling methods (e.g. a quest) that they can detect? Ask the reader to say or write something about the mood of the story. With e-readers and online books, ask the reader to talk about how words, images, and possibly sound relate to one another. Do they repeat, or do words have one job to do, and images another? Here are some recommended books—all of them online or available on e-readers: http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/childrens-literature-builds-global-competence Read this same article in Education Week at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2013/05/childrens_literature_builds_global_competence.html
Source: Asia Society
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Title: Children's Literature Builds Global Competence
Body: From http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/childrens-literature-builds-global-competence The youngest readers can become armchair travelers. Children’s literature about the world and its cultures compels young minds to investigate ways of life and thinking that can be different—or quite similar—to their own. It offers important perspectives as students build basic literacy skills. When young learners finish a book about another culture, ask them to: Recount the story in their own words, and listen to see if they use new vocabulary used in the story. Compare and contrast this story with another similar story. Are there common themes (e.g. good versus bad) or storytelling methods (e.g. a quest) that they can detect? Ask the reader to say or write something about the mood of the story. With e-readers and online books, ask the reader to talk about how words, images, and possibly sound relate to one another. Do they repeat, or do words have one job to do, and images another? Here are some recommended books—all of them online or available on e-readers: http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/childrens-literature-builds-global-competence Read this same article in Education Week at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2013/05/childrens_literature_builds_global_competence.html
Source: Asia Society
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Title: International Exchange Alumni Website for Participants of US-Sponsored Exchange Programs
Body: From https://alumni.state.gov/about-international-exchange-alumni The International Exchange alumni website is a place where past and present U.S. government-sponsored exchange program participants find tools to advance their communities and our world. International Exchange Alumni features valuable resources to support your personal and professional development: Access the $33 billion Grants database with funding opportunities from organizations around the world. Read–or listen to–current events and the latest academic research through the eLibrary of more than 20,000 publications. Search Jobs and volunteer opportunities. Explore this website and join at https://alumni.state.gov
Source: US Department of State
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Title: International Exchange Alumni Website for Participants of US-Sponsored Exchange Programs
Body: From https://alumni.state.gov/about-international-exchange-alumni The International Exchange alumni website is a place where past and present U.S. government-sponsored exchange program participants find tools to advance their communities and our world. International Exchange Alumni features valuable resources to support your personal and professional development: Access the $33 billion Grants database with funding opportunities from organizations around the world. Read–or listen to–current events and the latest academic research through the eLibrary of more than 20,000 publications. Search Jobs and volunteer opportunities. Explore this website and join at https://alumni.state.gov
Source: US Department of State
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Title: Ideas for Using Students’ Cell Phones in Language Classrooms
Body: If you want to embrace students’ use of cell phones by integrating their use into your classroom activities, here are two ideas for doing so from the Reflexiones de Sala63 blog. The first is a bellringer activity using the Wiffiti website: http://spanishconnect.edublogs.org/2011/06/12/the-new-bell-ringer The second is a discussion of how to use Google Voice for typical classroom activities: http://spanishconnect.edublogs.org/2011/05/22/google-voice
Source: Reflexiones de Sala63 Blog
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Title: Ideas for Using Students’ Cell Phones in Language Classrooms
Body: If you want to embrace students’ use of cell phones by integrating their use into your classroom activities, here are two ideas for doing so from the Reflexiones de Sala63 blog. The first is a bellringer activity using the Wiffiti website: http://spanishconnect.edublogs.org/2011/06/12/the-new-bell-ringer The second is a discussion of how to use Google Voice for typical classroom activities: http://spanishconnect.edublogs.org/2011/05/22/google-voice
Source: Reflexiones de Sala63 Blog
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