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Title: Free Lesson Plan about Gratitude
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From http://elt-resourceful.com
Here’s a lesson from the elt-resourceful website:
A free downloadable lesson, based around an authentic video. Research shows that feeling grateful for what we have and the people in our lives is a key factor in feeling happy. The video shows a group of people carrying out a task designed to increase their happiness in this way.
The lesson starts with a short text to introduce the topic and get the students thinking about how people recognize and celebrate gratitude in their cultures. It then moves onto the video, where students watch two people visiting a friend and reading aloud a letter they have written, thanking them for what they have done. There is some focus on vocabulary, and some useful phrases that students could use themselves to say thank you. Finally, the students are asked to write their own thank you letter, which they may or may not choose to actually deliver.
This lesson is available at http://elt-resourceful.com/2014/01/27/gratitude-a-free-downloadable-lesson
Source: ELT-Resourceful
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Title: 37th Portland International Film Festival
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From http://festivals.nwfilm.org/piff37/schedule
37th Portland International Film Festival
February 6-22, 2014
Portland, Oregon
The Portland International Film Festival explores not only the art of film but also the world around us. The cultural diversity, the extraordinary range of subjects, genres, and experiences explored—for all ages and from matinee to midnight—invite exploration and discovery, movie-lover or not. This year’s festival includes 104 features and 24 shorts. Visit the festival website for more details and a schedule of films: http://festivals.nwfilm.org/piff37
Source: NWFilmCenter
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Title: Online Game Connects Agriculture with Global Knowledge
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The Great Seed Search is an online game that connects agriculture with global knowledge. Players travel around the world gathering seeds from their places of origin, learning about the country the seed came from as well as other places where that product is grown.
The game is available at http://www.myamericanfarm.org/games/great_seed_search
Read more about the place of agriculture in a global curriculum at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2014/01/sprouting_ideas_integrate_global_agriculture_into_teaching.html
Source: My American Farm
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Title: Pinterest Resources from the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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From the FLTEACH listserv:
Doing lesson planning this weekend? The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) has some great resources to help you!
Language Specific resources:
Other Languages (ASL, ESL, Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Japanese and more): http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl/other-languages-teacher-favorites
For French Teachers: http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl/french-teacher-favorites
For German Teachers: http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl/german-teacher-favorites
For Spanish teachers: http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl/spanish-teacher-favorites
Teaching world languages - good resources for all teachers:
http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl/teaching-world-languages
Check out more of our resources (language advocacy, tech for teachers, teacher blogs, wikis, presentations (etc.) at: http://www.pinterest.com/csctfl
Join the more than 2,000 colleagues who follow us on Pinterest!
Shackelford, S. [FLTEACH] Doing Lesson Planning this weekend? Here are some resources to help you.... FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 30 Jan 2014).
Don’t forget that the Central States conference is coming up in March! Visit the conference website to register: http://www.csctfl.org/conferences/2014conference.html
Source: FLTEACH
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Title: World Story of the Day
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Here is a resource for helping your students stay informed of global events, in small daily chunks. National Public Radio has a World Story of the Day site; each day they post one story about something going on in the world, which includes the audio feature, a summarizing article, and the actual transcript.
World Story of the Day is available at http://www.npr.org/sections/world-story-of-the-day
Read a short description of this resource at http://readknowlearngo.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/npr-world-story-of-the-day
Source: NPR
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Title: Course Listings of Less Commonly Taught Languages in North America – Summer Update
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The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition maintains a database of courses in less-commonly taught languages. You can browse the listings at http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/index.php
This database is only possible thanks to the information provided by instructors and administrators all over North America. CARLA is currently compiling information about summer 2014 courses. Add information about yours at http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db/courseadd.php
Browse CARLA’s other resources for less commonly taught languages at http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/index.html
Source: CARLA
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Title: Spoken Language Contests in Georgia
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From http://www.flageorgia.org
The Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG) is sponsoring spoken language contests for elementary through high school students in 2014. Here are the upcoming dates, registration deadlines, and locations:
March 1 - MS/HS - Coastal site - by February 25
March 29 - MS/HS - Decatur site - by February 22
April 12 - MS/HS - Darton site - by March 21
April 26 - FLES - Amana Academy - by April 12
For more information about the elementary contest go to http://www.flageorgia.org/slc-fles/slc-fles.htm
For more information about the middle and high school contests go to http://www.flageorgia.org/slc-mshs/slc-mshs.htm
Source: FLAG
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Title: Book: Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics
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From http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415518260
Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics
By Jill Jegerski and Bill VanPatten
Published by Routledge
Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics. With a focus on the actual methods, designs, and techniques used in psycholinguistics research as they are applied to second language learners, this book offers the practical guidance readers need to determine which method is the best for what they wish to investigate as well as the tools that will enhance their research.
Each methods chapter is written by a leading expert who describes, discusses, and comments on how a method is used and what its strengths and limitations are for second language research. These chapters follow a specific format to ensure cohesion and a predictable structure across all chapters. The chapters also inform the novice researcher on such key issues as ease of use, costs, potential pitfalls, and other related matters, each of which impact decisions that researchers make about the paths they take.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415518260
Source: Routledge
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Title: Book: Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/aals.9/main
Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Junkal Gutierrez Mangado and María Martínez Adrián
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/aals.9/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Inaugural Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
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The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University will hold its inaugural Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language on February 21-22, 2014.
Visit the conference website at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/classic_modern/spanishheritage/index.php to see the schedule and to register.
Source: Texas Tech University
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