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Title: Website and Free Download: Facts about Germany
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From http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/newsletter/Germany__In__Class/Germany-in-Class-201603.html
We have written about the Facts about Germany website in a past InterCom article (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/14046). The latest edition is out, available on the web in English or in German and also available as a PDF download or e-paper. A shorter edition for younger learners is also available.
The English version of the website is available at https://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/en
The German version is available at https://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/de
Click on Menu at the top left of the webpage to access the printable books.
Source: Germany.info
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Title: College Scholarship for Students from Western Pennsylvania to Study in Germany
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For the third straight year, the German American Business Circle of the German American Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh is partnering with the Pittsburgh Rotary Club Foundation to award a $2,500 scholarship.
It is intended to benefit collegiate-level students from Western Pennsylvania who demonstrate academic excellence and strong interest in German-American business affairs and culture, and who plan to further their studies through study abroad at an accredited institution of higher learning in Germany.
For full details go to http://www.gabcpgh.com/gabc_pittsburgh_rotary_scholarship.html
Source: Pittsburgh Rotary Club
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Title: Blog Post: Charades in the Language Classroom
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
Middle school French teacher Samantha Decker explains why and how she plays charades with her French students in this blog post, which includes suggestion for acting out some common vocabulary: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2016/04/why-i-love-charades.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: 10 Websites for English Language Students
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Here are descriptions of 10 websites that English learners may find useful, mostly for independent learning: https://eltexperiences.com/2016/04/04/10-websites-for-english-language-students/
Source: ELT Experiences
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Title: Website: Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals
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Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun, challenging exercises. Here you will find the movie segments, the lesson plans, printable worksheets with answer key for each activity, and the tips to develop your own grammar activities with the DVDs you have at home. New activities are posted regularly.
The website is available at http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/
Source: Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals
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Title: Article: Integrating Language and Content: Science for Dual Language Learners
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From http://www.edcentral.org/science-dlls/
Integrating Language and Content: Science for Dual Language Learners
by Janie T. Carnock
March 28, 2016
In many school systems across the country, the prevailing paradigm for dual language learners (DLLs) has been to intentionally separate content instruction from language learning. …
However, to better support DLLs, education leaders must keep in mind a commonsense truth: language is fundamentally, necessarily embedded into all content. Consider: when a DLL is asked to explain the science of how seeds grow into flowers or why governments have laws, she needs a system of words to do so. That’s the very point of language — to communicate content, to communicate ideas. We develop language not just to develop it, but for productive, useful purposes. …
For these reasons, researchers and advocates have pushed in recent years for a new pedagogy of integrated language learning, one in which language is learned and used authentically in the service of learning content. Under this framework, all teachers take responsibility for DLLs’ academic success, even as ESL teachers continue to play a targeted role for accelerating language acquisition (especially for DLLs with little to no English).
Science presents a particularly ripe area for all DLLs to engage in meaningful, authentic contexts that integrate language and content learning in this way. Science can already be uniquely engaging for DLLs, given the concrete, hands-on nature of experiments and tinkering, learning that might not require as high an English proficiency bar from DLLs. Nonetheless, science does offer many linguistic opportunities related to asking questions, collaborating, constructing explanations, and arguing from evidence.
Read the full article at http://www.edcentral.org/science-dlls/
Source: EdCentral
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Title: Teaching Writing to Young Learners: 10 Online Resources
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Here is an annotated list of helpful websites that young English learners can use to improve their writing: http://blog.tesol.org/teaching-writing-to-young-learners-10-online-resources/
Source: TESOL Blog
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Title: Infographic: Why Embrace Digital Language Pedagogies?
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From our sister Language Resource Center the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, here is an infographic promoting the use of digital pedagogies for language learning: https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/sites/coerll.utexas.edu.coerll/files/coerll-digital-pedagogies-infographic.pdf
Source: COERLL
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Title: Differentiation and Choice
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In this very helpful recent blog post, Kristy Placido describes several ways in which she differentiates instruction in her classroom by offering students lots of choices: https://kplacido.com/2016/04/09/differentiation-in-my-language-classroom/
Source: Kristy Placido
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Title: Transition Activity: I Am (Shakespeare)
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Here is an activity you can use with kids - it gets the whole class moving, keeps everyone in the target language, and reinforces frequently-used verbs: http://musicuentos.com/2016/04/shakespeare/
Source: Musicuentos
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