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Title: Help with the Interpretative Mode on French Please!
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The French please! website has free authentic video and audio clips, readings, and grammar quizzes. Here’s an example: a video about the engagement of Simone de Beauvoir, with a transcript and a comprehension quiz: http://frenchplease.com/watching/french-listeninglengagement-de-simone-de-beauvoir/
Explore more resources on French please! at http://frenchplease.com/
Source: French Please!
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Title: Opposites Activity Ideas
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From http://spanishplayground.net
Building relationships among words is one way to reinforce vocabulary, and “opposites” is a relationship that even young children can understand. Here is a link to a blog post on the Spanish Playground with ideas for using printables with photos representing opposites relations, especially good for young children but adaptable for any age of learner: http://spanishplayground.net/spanish-opposites-printable-activities/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: De Cine: Blog about Using Film for Teaching Spanish
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De Cine is a teacher’s blog dedicated to using film for teaching Spanish. She writes,
“Creo que el uso del cine y de todo lo audiovisual puede ser una herramienta muy útil para nuestros estudiantes de ELE.
“En este blog pretendo ir insertando todo aquello que yo he recopilado para trabajar en el aula con el cine y además poco a poco ir mostrando mis propias creaciones que espero os sirvan de algo.
“Además quisiera incluir apuntes sobre cultura e interculturalidad ya que es un tema que me interesa y relaciono constantemente con las
actividades audiovisuales.”
View the blog posts at http://www.cineele.blogspot.com.es/
Source: De Cine
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Title: Register Now for the 2015 National Spanish Examinations
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From http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/
The National Spanish Examinations (NSE) are online, standardized assessment tools for Grades 6-12, given voluntarily by more than 3800 teachers throughout the United States to measure achievement and proficiency of students who are studying Spanish as a second language. The examinations can be used as a motivational competition for students as well as for assessment purposes.
Registration for the 2015 National Spanish Examinations opened November 1st and runs through January 31.
Learn more about the National Spanish Examinations at http://www.nationalspanishexam.org/
Source: AATSP
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Title: Lesson Plan: A Virtual Tour of Buenos Aires
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Teacher and blogger Amy Lenord has put together an exciting lesson for her Spanish 2 students. Here is her overview:
“In this lesson I take my students through a virtual tour of Buenos Aires using their own smart devices. They will explore various attractions and neighborhoods in that city, plan their transportation for day tour and then write me an email to tell me all about how they managed their day in Buenos Aires.”
Access all of the materials to accompany the lesson and read more about it in her blog post: http://www.amylenord.net/blog/lenords-lessons-a-virtual-tour-of-buenos-aires
Source: Language Coaching
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Title: Gamification Strategies for TESOL Students in STEM Fields
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From http://fltmag.com/gamification-strategies-for-tesol-students-stem/
Gamification Strategies for TESOL Students in STEM Fields
by Russell Moon and Nick Einterz
November 14, 2014
“At the University of Colorado Boulder’s International English Center (IEC), students from all over the world develop their English proficiency and academic skills with the intention of studying at a university in the United States. A significant number of these students intend to study engineering.
“… Since vocational identity seems to play an important role in motivating students to succeed in their English studies, the IEC has begun offering upper-level, content-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses.
“These courses aim to develop students’ proficiency in academic English by offering them the opportunity to study English in the context of their chosen field. Founded upon research-supported curriculum design that ensures content accuracy, such courses provide an opportunity for students to engage in authentic engineering practices, such as project planning and implementation. This article presents the curricular design for a project-based STEM course, ‘English for Engineering,’ and reviews our approaches to teaching the course and staging the course within Desire2Learn (D2L), the University of Colorado Boulder’s course management system.
“… In our case, students were presented with two project options: build a virtual structure using Minecraft, a popular computer-based sandbox game, or design and construct a physical Rube Goldberg machine.”
Read the full article at http://fltmag.com/gamification-strategies-for-tesol-students-stem/
Source: FLTMAG
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Title: Report: Schools Struggle To Adapt to English Language Learner Needs
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Faculty research: schools struggle to adapt to English-language learner needs
by Kevin Sliman
November 14, 2014
A College of Education faculty member presented a research report that explores the relationship between school-district infrastructure in new-immigrant destinations and the marginalization of English-language learners (ELLs) in those districts. Megan Hopkins, assistant professor of education, and her colleague, Rebecca Lowenhaupt of Boston College, reported that in many schools, the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) and the teaching of academic subjects are separated and disconnected, which can cause ELLs to fall behind academically.
“This does not represent current thinking in the field,” said Hopkins. “While a separate ESL instructional block can be beneficial, ELL educators also advocate for content-based language learning that requires all teachers to have training related to ELL instruction, and that necessitates meaningful, ongoing collaboration between ESL and general-education teachers.”
Hopkins added that school districts that separate ESL and content require ELLs to become proficient in English before learning content. This often places them far behind in their learning of content and of content-based academic language.
Read the full article at http://news.psu.edu/story/334805/2014/11/14/research/faculty-research-schools-struggle-adapt-english-language-learner
Source: Pennsylvania State University
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Title: The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving
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Here is ESL teacher Larry Ferlazzo’s annotated list of links to helpful resources for learning about Thanksgiving: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/27/the-best-sites-to-learn-teach-about-thanksgiving/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
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Title: The Play’s the Thing: In-Class Simulations and Authentic Materials
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=122626
The Play’s the Thing
by Lori Langer de Ramirez
“Nothing gets a student more excited (or engaged) than being able to express herself or read a sign in situ in the target language. We can all remember that moment when we first communicated something to a native speaker in French, or Mandarin, or Hindi — and we were understood! It is exhilarating, but it is the kind of interaction that can be hard to replicate in the language classroom.
“…there are viable alternatives to the static realia of the textbook or the mock reality of a short fakealia activity. Fantasy trips, simulations, and online virtual worlds provide teachers with excellent materials, authentic contexts, and possibilities for asynchronous communication that help extend the language-learning experience for students while connecting them with the broad community of speakers around the world.”
Read the full article for good ideas on doing classroom simulations using a wealth of realia: http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=122626
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Linguacafé: Conversation Activity that Works with Young Children
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Teacher, consultant, and blogger Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell writes,
“Linguacafé is a conversation activity that gets kids talking, helps shyer students have a low-anxiety speaking outlet, and gives the teacher opportunities to both give meaningful feedback and complete administrative tasks like collecting homework or taking attendance, or even setting up the next video, while students are still engaged with language.”
Read how she does it in this blog post: http://musicuentos.com/2014/11/linguacafe/
Source: Musicuentos
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