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Title: Sources for Authentic Audio on Spanish, French, and German
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From languageteacherscollaborate
Here is a collection of links to online sources of authentic audio for Spanish, French, and German: http://languageteacherscollaborate.pbworks.com/w/page/34241047/Authentic%20Audio
Source: Language Teachers Collaborate
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Title: Spanish Film Club: Bring Cinema to Your University
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Spanish Film Club (SFC) celebrates its first successful two years with a new deadline: March 31, 2014.
Twice a year, SFC offers grants to help universities bring the very best in contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema to campuses and to introduce students to the language and cultures of these territories.
Universities select a minimum of five films from a catalog of 35 titles to create a film festival on campus. Representing 19 countries, the films have been carefully selected by a team of experts and are backed by the most important festivals and film critics. Spanish Film Club also encourages the organization of virtual Q&As with filmmakers and provides all the necessary material for its promotion.
New films this cycle include award-winning titles like Bad Hair, Who is Dayani Cristal?, Eternal Amazon, Operation E, Wrinkles, Yvy Maraey, Land Without Evil, and 7 Boxes.
Learn more at http://www.pragda.com/spanishfilmclub
#10170 (ADVTSG) February 2014- A New SFC Deadline is approaching! LLTI listserv (LLTI@LISTSERV.DARTMOUTH.EDU, 20 Feb 2014).
Source: LLTI
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Title: Lesson Plan and Materials for Introducing and Using the Pluperfect
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Here is a lesson plan and accompanying materials for introducing and using the pluperfect in Spanish: http://www.todoele.net/actividades/Actividad_maint.asp?ActividadesPage=2&Actividad_id=512
Source: TodoELE
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Title: Listening Activities and Strategies
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From http://teachspanisheasily.com/index.html
Here is an excellent resource for teaching listening skills. This website includes an introduction to teaching listening, plus collections of pre-, during, and post-listening activity ideas. Explore, learn, and get ideas at http://teachspanisheasily.com/listeningactivities.html
Source: Teach Spanish Easily
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Title: Bilingual Education in California
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As California teachers of English language learners know, English-only instruction has been the state law for 16 years. However, now bilingual education is being revisited.
Read about a possible repeal of Proposition 227 at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/02/calif_voters_could_get_shot_at.html
Read about studies on the effectiveness of bilingual education at http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/S-F-seen-as-model-in-bilingual-education-over-5229826.php
Source: Various
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Title: Movie Project Idea
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Here is a blog post describing a lesson based on movies, specifically genres of movie trailers. Students create their own movie trailers to share.
See the lesson description and access example trailers at http://directorschair.es/2014/02/22/movie-lesson
Source: Fun & Creative ESL Workshops for Kids
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Title: Teaching Across the Board: Whole School Approach for English Language Learners
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=31244
Teaching Across the Board
Margarita Calderón
One trend in many schools has been the use of push-in and pull-out ESL approaches to provide “EL services.” Realistically, when ELLs are pulled out for language, they miss out on learning content and on socialization with mainstream students. When their ESL teachers push in, the ELLs feel singled out and frequently withdraw from any meaningful learning during that intervention time. The programs also create other problems for teachers when schools do not allow quality preparation time for mainstream and ESL/bilingual teachers to meet and plan their co-teaching. Team teaching efforts become disjointed and ineffective.
When ELL learning outcomes become the focus, professional learning deepens educators’ content knowledge, pedagogical facilitation, and understanding of how ELLs learn language, literacy, and content at the same time. Student outcomes are contingent on continuous professional learning. Students and teachers benefit when schools and school districts commit to educator performance standards that delineate the knowledge, skills, practices, and dispositions of highly effective educators of ELLs. In fact, the whole school benefits.
Read the full article at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=31244
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Conversation Questions
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Here is a large collection of topically-organized conversation questions: http://iteslj.org/questions
Examples of topics are Accidents at Home, Friends, Going to a Party, and Procrastination. Here are some of the questions from the Beach topic:
When was the last time you went to the beach? Where did you go?
What do people do at the beach?
Can you swim?
When did you learn to swim?
Who taught you to swim?
What kind of swimming suit do you wear?
Have you ever been night-swimming?
Are there any problems with jellyfish, sharks or stonefish at your local beach?
Here are some suggestions for using the questions in a classroom: http://iteslj.org/questions/z.html
Source: Internet TESL Journal Archives
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Title: World Language Credit Program Finalist for Road Map Project Award by Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
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Washington State's World Language Credit Program, led by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a finalist in the inaugural Road Map Project Awards Program. The Road Map Project seeks to double the number of students in South King County and South Seattle (Washington) who are on track to graduate from college or earn a career credential by 2020.
As part of that effort, the World Language Credit Program offers the opportunity for students with proficiency in a language other than English to earn world language credits by demonstrating proficiency in that language, regardless of how they learn that language. By emphasizing proficiency rather than seat time, the competency-based credit program recognizes the value of students' home languages. Districts provide opportunities for students to develop and maintain literacy in their native language, as well as English, and to demonstrate that proficiency through nationally available language assessments.
CASLS has helped the World Language Credit Program by offering LinguaFolio Online as a way to track students' proficiency and to ensure students are ready to take standardized assessments. CASLS staff have delivered training workshops to teachers and instructional aides in Washington to help them understand performance assessments, how to develop them, and how to use them in the classroom. Staff also provided training on how to incorporate LinguaFolio Online into the curriculum.
The World Language Credit Program is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the project includes seven participating districts in Washington, the Office of Education Ombudsman, School's Out Washington, CASLS, and Education Northwest.
Source: CASLS
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Title: March Theme: Task-based Learning and Teaching
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Our InterCom theme for March is task-based learning and teaching (TBLT). Stay tuned all this month for articles explaining TBLT and activities exemplifying it.
Source: CASLS
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