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Title: New eTogaTrek Videos
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From http://ascaniusyci.org/etogatrek/
Last November we wrote about eTogaTrek, a video series from Ascanius about ancient Roman civilization and intended for elementary and middle school students (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/18566). Here are links to three more videos in the series:
Architecture: http://ascaniusyci.org/etogatrek/03-architecture/
Mosaics: http://www.ascaniusyci.org/etogatrek/04-mosaics/index.htm
Games: http://www.ascaniusyci.org/etogatrek/05-games/index.htm
Access all of the eTogaTrek videos at http://ascaniusyci.org/etogatrek/
Source: Ascanius
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Title: Five Quick French Pronunciation Steps
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Here is an online article explaining how English speakers can produce some of the French sounds that they typically find most difficult: http://www.gamesforlanguage.com/blog/post/2015-06-5-quick-french-pronunciation-steps-mouth-mechanics-1
Source: Games for Language
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Title: Quotes and Sayings from Cervantes
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From http://spanish.about.com/
Just in time to accompany this week’s Activity of the Week dealing with riddles, here is a collection of sayings by Miguel de Cervantes: http://spanish.about.com/od/spanishlanguageliterature/fl/Quotes-and-Sayings-from-Cervantes.htm
Source: About.com
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Title: SpanishTown: Kid-Friendly Online Spanish Activities
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If your younger students are looking for websites to use over the summer to retain some of their Spanish, they might enjoy exploring the SpanishTown website. The website has a series of lessons, mostly centered around vocabulary and sentences using the vocabulary.
The website is available at http://www.spanishtown.ca
Source: SpanishTown
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Title: Spanisharea: Resources for Learning Spanish
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From http://www.spanisharea.com/index.htm
The Spanisharea website includes articles about Spanish grammar and pronunciation, illustrated pages with thematic vocabulary, and practice exercises for grammar, vocabulary, reading, and listening.
Explore this website at http://www.spanisharea.com/index.htm
Source: Spanisharea
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Title: Spanish Activity: Cuando era pequeño…
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Here is an activity that encourages students to talk about their childhoods, centered around the song “Soledad” by La Oreja de Van Gogh. The activity description and links to a handout and the song on YouTube are here: http://www.todoele.net/actividades/Actividad_maint.asp?ActividadesPage=4&Actividad_id=616
Source: Todoele.net
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Title: NEA Video Series: Best Practices for ELLs
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Colorín Colorado in conjunction with the NEA has recently posted a series of four videos on YouTube about best practices for English language learners. The four videos are “Making Dual-Language Immersion Work,” “ESL Support in Elementary School,” “Assessment for ELLs,” and “Reading Basics with Fifth-Grade Newcomers.”
All four videos are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoU659hwTdDYnuHRcZgFPjMaoAS8b09J1
Read an article about this resource at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2015/06/nea_videos_showcase_english-la.html
Source: YouTube
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Title: Language Gym: Drills for Spanish, French, and Italian
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The Language Gym is an athletic-training-themed website with some verb drills and other drill-type online games in Spanish, French, and Italian. It is available her: http://www.language-gym.com/
Source: Language Gym
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Title: Article: Teaching Culture Requires Perspective-Taking
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From http://musicuentos.com/2015/06/question-culture/
Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell writes, “What is the point of teaching culture, anyway? Is it to get kids to realize that people are different? (They already do.) Is it to get them to try a new food? (Lengua, eww, gross. Does that have peanuts in it?)
“No, cultural awareness is more about perspective-taking. According to the research, children who show empathy will be more successful in life. And what is empathy? It’s ‘the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.’ It’s perspective-taking.”
Read how inquiry-based models can be used in your language classroom to help your students think about the beliefs in the target culture in this blog post: http://musicuentos.com/2015/06/question-culture/
Source: Musicuentos
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Title: Using Graphic Novels To Develop Multiliteracies
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From http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=123901
Words + Pictures
by Lina Sun
Students can develop language competence and social skills engaging with literary texts of all forms and genres: novels, poetry, drama, films, picture books, comics, and graphic novels. Today, literacy is no longer restricted to the canonical fictional texts but involves visual art forms as well. The New London Group (1996) developed the concept of multiliteracies focusing on different modes of representation. They noted that the visual mode of representation is powerful and closely related to language. Multiliteracies also create a different kind of pedagogy in which “language and other modes of meaning are dynamic representational resources, constantly being remade by their users as they work to achieve their various cultural purposes.”
Research from the past two decades has shown that comics and graphic novels in particular may have a beneficial effect on readers in terms of retaining information, improving basic language skills, fostering comprehension, and interpreting for meaning (Carter, 2008; Gunning, 2005; Kilickaya & Krajka, 2012). These studies suggest that schemata can be stored both verbally and visually, and that the mixing of words and images has a major impact on cognitive psychology and therefore also on language learning (Paivio, 1991).
Read the full article at http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=123901
Source: Language Magazine
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