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Title: Free Collection of Spanish eBooks
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Betsy from the Zambombazo website describes this recent online find:
“Free collection of eight ebooks that are chock full of classic fables, traditional stories from Colombia, tongue-twisters, poems, adages and songs – all accompanied by beautiful illustrations that make the words come alive on the page.”
The website, Leer es me cuento, is available at http://maguared.ning.com/coleccion-leer-es-mi-cuento
Source: Zambombazo
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Title: Spanish Lesson: Utopian and Dystopian Futures
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Here is a lesson plan with all necessary accompanying materials in which students compare two different views of the future: one optimistic and one pessimistic. Available at http://www.todoele.net/actividades/Actividad_maint.asp?ActividadesPage=5&Actividad_id=547
Source: Todoele.net
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Title: Florida Board Adopts New English-Language-Proficiency Standards
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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/06/florida_board_adopts_new_engli.html
Florida Board Adopts New English-Language-Proficiency Standards
By Lesli A. Maxwell
June 20, 2014
After a vote by the state board of education this week, Florida has adopted a new set of standards to guide the language instruction of its 250,000 English-language learners.
The board approved Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart's recommendation that the state adopt common-core aligned English-language-proficiency standards by WIDA, a group of 35 states that share the standards, as well as English-language-proficiency assessments.
Read the full article and access links to more information at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2014/06/florida_board_adopts_new_engli.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: Numbeo: Statistics about the World
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From http://www.numbeo.com/common
Numbeo is a collection of Web pages containing numerical and other itemizable data about cities and countries, designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content. It is the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.
Numbeo is available at http://www.numbeo.com/common
Read reviews of this resource at http://readknowlearngo.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/numbeo and at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/06/numbeo-compare-costs-of-living-in.html#.U6ccFKggXOU
Source: Numbeo
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Title: WeSpeke: Global Online Platform for Language Sharing
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From http://tinyurl.com/pht28yw
WeSpeke is a free, safe, global online platform designed for languages and cultural exchange. Through WeSpeke, learners build language skills through collaborative and immersive conversations with native speakers using text chat, audio chat and video. One of the unique aspects of WeSpeke is the use of patent pending matching technology to bring individual users together based on complementary language interests (e.g. you speak English and want to learn or practice Spanish for an upcoming trip to South America and your language partner is from Chile, speaks Spanish and wants to learn or practice English) and common life interests (e.g. travel, books, music, food, sports, etc.). WeSpeke was founded in 2010 by Mike Elchik and Dr. Jaime Carbonell, Director the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
WeSpeke is available at http://en-us.wespeke.com
Source: JNCL-NCLIS
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Title: More World Cup Resources
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The FIFA World Cup continues in Brazil, and here are some more online resources for you and your students as you follow the matches:
Here is a collection of resources, organized by subject, from TES Connect: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6431265#.U6YWzqggXOV. Scroll down for languages.
Here is another annotated collection of links for wider reading about the World Cup: http://strattonplus.edublogs.org/2014/06/09/word-cup-wider-reading
Larry Ferlazzo continues to update his annotated list of resources: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/03/09/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-2014-world-cup-in-brazil
Here is a reading list of books for children, many of them bilingual Spanish-English, about soccer: http://www.colorincolorado.org/read/forkids/soccer
Here are several different resources for learning more about Brazil:
Learn about THE typical dish of Brazil, feijoada, in this Smithsonian article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Celebrate-Brazil-with-Emerils-Feijoada-180951699
Learn how you can view Brazilian street art celebrating the World Cup on Google Maps: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/celebrate-world-cup-brazilians-take-streets-paint-them-180951717
Learn about the culture of the 12 cities that are hosting matches from Zambombazo: http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/encuentros-en-brasil-la-cultura-de-las-12-ciudades-del-mundial
Here is a reading list of books for children about Brazil: http://www.colorincolorado.org/read/forkids/brazil
Is it more exciting to view the World Cup in Spanish? Read this editorial: http://online.wsj.com/articles/its-a-matter-of-goal-vs-golazo-1402007205
Read a Spanish-language article about the languages of the World Cup: http://www.aporelmundial.com/la-guerra-de-los-idiomas-en-el-mundial-de-2014-espanol-ingles-y-portugues-pugnan-en-todos-los-campos/3386
Here are four short dialogues about soccer, in Spanish: http://spanishencasa.com/es/2014/06/12/4-dialogos-de-futbol-para-el-mundial
Here is some soccer vocabulary in Japanese from About.com: http://japanese.about.com/od/japanesevocabulary/fl/Soccer-Vocabulary-in-Japanese.htm?nl=1
H-Net, dedicated to the humanities, has a new Common Crossroads network dedicated to World Cup-related discussions. Join in at https://networks.h-net.org/world-cup-2014
Here is a German language site dedicated to the World Cup: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanaluebersicht/158#/event/2107848/fifawm2014
Here’s an article, “Bundesliga Stars Shine at World Cup”: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/bg/P__WASH/2014/Bundesliga-Stars.html
Here are more World Cup articles having to do with Germany: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/08__Culture__Sports/06/02/WorldCup2014.html
And here is a World Cup photo contest from Germany.info: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/P__Wash/2014/06/18-Photo-Storify.html
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Title: Ideas for Using Instagram in a Language Class
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A few months ago CASLS featured an Activity of the Week in which students create and use Instagram accounts. Here is a recent blog post from SpanishPlans.org with ideas for using Instagram in your language class: http://spanishplans.org/2014/06/19/authentic-instagrams
Source: SpanishPlan.org
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Title: New Issue of the IALLT Journal for Language Learning Technologies
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The latest issue of the International Association For Language Learning Technology journal is available at http://www.iallt.org/iallt_journal
In this issue:
• Language Center Design and Management in the Post-Language Laboratory Era
• Effects of Oral Repetition on Learners’ Japanese Word Accentuation
• Incorporating Facebook in an Intermediate-Level Chinese Language Course: A Case Study
• Effects of Technology Modes on Ratings of Learner Recordings
• Cultures and Communities in the Virtual World: Beginning the Exploration
• Learner Agency, Motive, and Self-Regulated Learning in an Online ESL Writing Class
• Legal Issues & LLT Googlizing Copyright
• Language Learning Technology MALL: Future Directions for BYOD Applications
• Online Peer Feedback in Beginners’ Writing Tasks: Lessons Learned
• Exploring the Benefits of ACMC for Speaking Development
...and more.
Source: IALLT
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Title: Book: The Acquisition of French as a Second Language
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bct.62/main
The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives
Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different researchers in the field, including studies on the acquisition of grammar, formulaic language, lexis and pragmatic devices, and covering interlanguage development from beginner level up to very advanced, presumably near-native levels of proficiency. The learners in the studies reported in the volume represent different L1 backgrounds and age groups. The chapters shed light on current issues in research on second language acquisition from different theoretical perspectives, and contribute to a better understanding of L2 French and SLA in general. The volume should be of interest for students, teachers and researchers of L2 French and SLA.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bct.62/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Call for Papers: Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level
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From http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2691.html
ESP Today - Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level is an online-only open access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research papers covering all areas of English for Specific Purposes in the context of tertiary education. The Journal is aimed at ESP researchers, scholars and practitioners worldwide.
The editors invite you to submit a paper related to your research interest in the field of ESP at tertiary level and contribute not only to high quality of ESP Today and its recognition within the international ESP community, but also to the academic exchange of views which will make this journal a forum for further ESP upgrading.
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2014
View the full call for articles at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2691.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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