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Title: Award of Excellence Contest for German Students
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From the AATG listserv:
This year´s Award of Excellence features a video about the German equivalent to the STEM program in the US. It is supposed to help reducing the shortage of skilled workers in Germany. Learn more about the MINT initiative and let your students take the quiz afterwards. All participants have to submit their forms online. The contest is open to all Middle and High School students in the US, Canada and Mexico. The contest ends on December 20th, 2015.
Get your taste of MINT on the Step Into German website, and hopefully win a trip to Germany next summer: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/ger/awa/enindex.htm
If you have any questions, please don´t hesitate to inbox me.
Best of luck,
Annette Baran
Step Into German-Team
stepintogerman@aol.com,
[AATG-L] Award of Excellence 2015 now online. AATG-L listserv (aatg@list.iupui.edu, 28 Sep 2015).
Source: AATG-L
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Title: Songs for Learning French
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
Middle school French teacher and blogger Samantha Decker shares her favorite songs for learning French in this recent blog post: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2015/09/greatest-hits-my-favorite-songs-for.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Mini-Unit on Refugee Crisis for Advanced French Students
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Here is a week-long unit for French 4/5 students about the refugee crisis, based on political cartoons: http://madameshepard.com/?p=880
Source: Madame's Musings
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Title: Parallel Reading for Low Intermediate French Learners
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Here is a short reading in French and English about a 3-year-old who was accidentally left behind at a rest stop: http://frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2015/09/parallel-reading-for-low-intermediates.html
Source: frenchteacher
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Title: Resources for French Films
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Here is a collection of classroom resources to support French films: http://dsden89.ac-dijon.fr/?ec_films_fiches
Source: Académie Dijon
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Title: Spanish Cellphone Abbreviations
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From http://spanish.about.com/
One way of overcoming some of [mobile devices’] limitations is the use of abbreviations and word or symbol substitutions to get the message across in fewer keystrokes. In Spanish, many of the shorter words used are phonetic usages, such as q for que or qué (the name of the letter is pronounced the same as the word) and the elimination of the letter h, which is silent. Some of the cellphone words are also carryovers from computer chat conventions, such as the use of ":)" to indicate happiness. A few anglicisms are also common.
Here is a list of common abbreviations: http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/a/sms.htm
Source: About.com
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Title: Easy Adult Reading in Spanish
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From http://www.leelofacil.org/es/home
Léelo fácil is a website with currently six classic books in Spanish, re-configured to be accessible to people with limited reading or Spanish skills. The books are simplified, animated, and full of links to more reading aids. They are designed to be read online.
Access the books here: http://www.leelofacil.org/es/home
Source: Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports
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Title: Food Vocabulary for Young Spanish Learners
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A Ñandutí listserv user recently asked for suggestions for teaching a food unit to 4th grade Spanish learners, in a way that incorporates the theme of global challenges. You can read the excellent and varied responses of other listserv users here: http://caltalk.cal.org/read/messages?id=59660#59660
Source: Ñandutí
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Title: First Annual National Celebration of Spanglish Day Creative Writing Contest
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Please join us in celebrating the First Annual National Celebration of Spanglish Day Creative Writing Contest* this October.
While National Spanglish Day occurs on October 1st, in order to encourage and facilitate the broadest possible participation, your student’s submissions are accepted until October 31st, after Hispanic Heritage Month.
The Creative Writing Contest Awards will be held at the 3rd Annual National Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language at the University of Oregon, February 18th-20th of 2016. In addition to the awards (which can be accepted in person, or by Skyping into the event), all finalists will be published in a special section of “Hispanic Cultural Experience”: http://faculty.csupueblo.edu/Alegria.Ribadeneira/HispanicExperience/
There will be separate awards for both high school and college-level participants from participating institutions across the United States in three categories: poem, essay, and short story.
We hope you will join us in making history with the celebration of National Spanglish Day and the First Annual National Celebration of Spanglish Day Creative Writing Contest.
Sincerely,
Heather Quarles, University of Oregon
Assistant Organizer, Third Annual National Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language
simposioshl3@uoregon.edu
SSHL Organizing Committee (http://3symposiumshl.weebly.com)
Florencia G. Henshaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Claudia Holguín M., University of Oregon (Chair 2016)
Julia Oliver-Raján, University of Iowa
Diego Pascual y Cabo, Texas Tech University (Chair 2014, 2015)
Julio Torres, University of California at Irvine
Damian Vergara Wilson, The University of New Mexico
*This celebration is an evolution of the Hispanic Cultural Experience Showcase established in 2006 by the English and Foreign Languages Department at CSU – Pueblo.
Source: University of Oregon
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Title: As ELL Tests Move Online, Educators Hope for Better Gauge of Skills
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From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/as-ell-tests-move-online-educators-hope.html
As ELL Tests Move Online, Educators Hope for Better Gauge of Skills
By Corey Mitchell
Two computer-based tests of English-language proficiency will debut this school year, ushering in a new era of online testing for millions of the nation's English-learners.
Leaders of the federally funded consortia that developed the exams are hopeful the tests will offer a more complete picture of how English-learners are grasping the language.
The World Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium, or WIDA, will launch its operational online test, ACCESS for ELLs 2.0, in November. The 36-state group shares English-language-proficiency standards and assessments for English-learners that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
The English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century consortium, known as ELPA 21, will roll out the new test for its 10 member states in February and March.
Primarily used to screen students for ELL services and to determine when they no longer require language instruction, the tests measure students' progress in learning to listen, speak, read, and write in English.
Read the full article at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/23/as-ell-tests-move-online-educators-hope.html
Source: Education Week
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