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Title: Just Add German Video Testimonials
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In April we wrote about the Just Add German video challenge (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/17597) in which middle and high school students are challenged to tell why they are passionate about learning German. That contest is still going through the end of the year, and meanwhile, you can see some of the testimonials that are already up at http://www.justaddgerman.org/testimonials-gallery. Videos are by celebrities as well as by students.
Source: Just Add German
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Title: Apply for AATG's College Faculty Seminar on Curriculum Development
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From http://www.aatg.org
AATG invites you to join colleagues for a three-day seminar for college/university German department faculty on October 10-12 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
This workshop will provide a unique professional development opportunity for faculty in post-secondary German programs to develop curricular frameworks and methodologies that enhance educational opportunities for their students, position the study of German at the forefront of innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices, and enable them to contribute to the educational mission of their institutions.
The deadline for application is July 15, 2014.
For full details go to http://www.aatg.org/news/176241/Apply-Today-for-AATGs-College-Faculty-Seminar-on-Curriculum-Development-Oct.-10-12.htm
Source: AATG
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Title: Spanish Learner Oral Corpus
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El Corpus Oral de Español como Lengua Extranjera es una colección de 40 entrevistas con alumnos de ELE de nivel A2 y B1 (MCER) de más de 9 lenguas maternas (especialmente, portugués, italiano, francés, inglés, alemán, neerlandés, polaco, chino y japonés). El corpus está anotado con errores e integrado en una interfaz que permite escuchar las entrevistas, consultar las transcripciones y buscar errores anotados conforme a distintos criterios: entre otros, nivel lingüístico del error, categoría morfológica, tipo de error, lengua materna del alumno o nivel MCER.
Access the corpus at http://cartago.lllf.uam.es/corele/index.html
Source: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Title: 275 Cortometrajes con Valor Educativo
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Here is a Spanish-language list of 275 short videos that may be useful in your classroom: http://creaconlaura.blogspot.com/p/cuando-hable-de-las-aristas-de-la-paz.html
Source: Crea y Aprenda con Laura
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Title: 10 Suggestions for Learning a Foreign Language – In Spanish
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Start off the school year with some advice for your advanced classes – in Spanish! Here are 10 suggestions for successful language learning: http://blog.tiatula.com/2014/05/10-consejos-para-aprender-un-idioma-con.html
Source: Tía Tula
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Title: Summer Activity Checklist for Young Spanish Learners
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From http://spanishplayground.net
Here is a nice printable illustrated checklist of summer activities that your young Spanish learners are likely to do, along with suggestions for how you can use the printable with your students: http://spanishplayground.net/summer-activities-for-kids-spanish-list
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Brief: Focus on American Indian English Language Learners
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AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Here is a brief from the WIDA Consortium about America Indian Students who are also English Language Learners (ELL)
Focus on American Indian English Language Learners May 2014
“Language is a huge part of your culture. It is really hard to have one without the other” —David O’Connor, American Indian Studies Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (2013)
The purpose of this WIDA Bulletin is to help educators make connections and provide contexts to deepen an awareness of the complexity and diversity of American Indian students identified as ELLs. To help achieve this objective, several guiding principles are presented that emerged from an interview conducted with Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and American Indians Studies Consultant, David O'Connor. In addition to explanations of each guiding principal, a discussion tool is provided that can be used in your local context about how these guiding principles can impact your classroom and guide your instruction.
http://wida.us/resources/focus/WIDA_Focus_on_AIELL.pdf
Cramblit, A. [ilat] AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS. ILAT listserv (ILAT@list.arizona.edu, 7 Jun 2014).
Source: ILAT
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Title: Words in Motion Curriculum for Middle School English Language Learners
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Words in Motion, a cognate-based academic vocabulary curriculum for the middle school grades, is available for free download on the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) website. Words in Motion was developed, piloted, and implemented as part of the grant EVoCA: Enhancing Vocabulary through Cognate Awareness, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. The grant was co-directed by Dr. Igone Arteagoitia of the Center for Applied Linguistics and Dr. Elizabeth Howard of the University of Connecticut. There are three versions of the curriculum: monolingual English, cross-linguistic (primarily in English with explicit connections to Spanish) and bilingual (English/Spanish).
Here is the link to the curriculum: http://www.cal.org/vias/subproject4/wmc/index.html
Dual Language Education of New Mexico has published an accompanying monograph that provides detailed background information about the curriculum. It is available on their website: http://www.dlenm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=45
Howard, E. [BILING] Words in Motion - academic vocabulary curriculum for Spanish-English bilingual middle school students. BILING listserv (BILING@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU, 2 Jun 2014).
Source: BILING
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Title: More World Cup Resources
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Here are more links to World Cup resources. The world cups starts this coming Saturday and runs through July 11.
The official FIFA website is at http://www.fifa.com/worldcup
From Annenberg Learner, a video segment and information about the history of soccer and its relationship to globalization at http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_video_25-3.html
A recent piece on NPR about soccer as a global game: http://www.npr.org/2014/06/08/318535258/the-world-cup-reminds-us-that-all-the-worlds-a-soccer-field
Nice World Cup-related tidbits from Zambombazo: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/betsys-recap-world-cup-cookies-player-portraits-panini-trading and http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/mundial-brasil-2014-una-conversacion-con-simon-cooper
An article from the Smithsonian Magazine about Brazil’s new stadium: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/will-brazils-world-cup-stadium-middle-amazon-pay-180951630
From Larry Ferlazzo, the Best Sites for Learning about the World Cup in Brazil at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/03/09/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-2014-world-cup-in-brazil and the Best Sites for Learning about Brazil at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/09/28/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-brazil
An article in Japanese about the Japanese team, from About.com: http://japanese.about.com/od/Grammar/fl/The-2014-FIFA-World-Cup.htm?nl=1
Watch the games that Germany plays in at the Goethe-Institut in Washington, D.C.: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en12535013v.htm, or in Chicago http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/chi/ver/en12951424v.htm
More German-oriented articles about the World Cup from Germany.info: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/08__Culture__Sports/06/02/WorldCup2014.html
Some quirky entertainment: “17 Glorious German National Team Hairstyles For Every Occasion” at http://www.buzzfeed.com/germanyinusa/18-glorious-german-national-team-hairstyles-for-ev-fr91
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Title: Creating a Slideshow as a Discussion Prompt
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From http://leesensei.edublogs.org
Here is a description of how you can find culturally relevant photos, create a slideshow from them, and use the slideshow as a discussion prompt in your classroom: http://leesensei.edublogs.org/2014/06/02/10-minutes-to-make-impact-priceless-the-easereward-of-a-unit-slideshow/#.U5TFgy8XXOU
Source: Language Sensei
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