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Title: Two Quick Filler Activities
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From http://www.teachthemenglish.com/
From the Teach them English blog, here are two quick non-prep activities that you can have your students do when you have a few extra unplanned minutes in class: http://www.teachthemenglish.com/2016/04/great-listening-energizers-part-1/
Source: Teach them English
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Title: Building Student Responsibility For Learning: Pre-to-Post Oral Activity Ideas
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From http://leesensei.edublogs.org
How can you help students to take ownership of their own learning? In this recent blog post, Japanese teacher Colleen Lee-Hayes describes how she involves students in formative self-assessment before, during, and after an activity: http://leesensei.edublogs.org/2016/04/02/ideas-for-building-student-responsibility-for-learning-pre-to-post-oral-activity/#.VwmpfD-aw68
Source: Language Sensei
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Title: Six Guidelines for Teaching About Religion
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Six Guidelines for Teaching About Religion
by Benjamin Pietro Marcus
April 4, 2016
Teachers committed to global education increasingly understand the urgency of teaching about religion in the context of contemporary social and political life. Yet not everyone agrees—despite books and reports that explain why learning about religion is both constitutional and critically important for responsible citizenship in a diverse nation. By reminding skeptics that the world has seen an increase in social hostilities related to religion since the atrocities of September 11—including 500 percent more hate crimes against Muslims per year in the US—perhaps they will recognize that religious literacy education is a key tool for preventing and reducing religion-related violence.
Instead of repeating the why of religious literacy education, this article provides suggestions for the how. After a brief review of the best existing guidelines for teaching about religion, we will explore a lesser-known, valuable framework for teaching about religious identity.
Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2016/04/six_guidelines_for_teaching_about_religion.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: Authentic Resources for Spanish Class
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Here is a large, curated collection of online authentic resources for Spanish teachers and learners: https://tackk.com/authenticresources4spanish
Source: Authentic Resources for Spanish Class
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Title: Blog Post: The Life-changing Magic of Tidying the Learning Environment
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From http://www.path2proficiency.com
Your InterCom editor, who still has files of materials she used in her Spanish classes twenty years ago, cringed when she read Sharon Deering’s post on the path to proficiency blog recently. In her post, Ms. Deering challenges us as follows:
“Is it possible that our eclectic collections of “stuff” in our classrooms result in fuzzy, unfocused thinking in our planning? Do the many options of resources, activities, props, and realia we have collected over the years cause us to give in to the temptation to choose one of these things to use and they try to maneuver the learning target to fit our choice? If so, I fear we may be in danger of losing the essential focus of a proficiency-based classroom.”
She goes on, “It goes back to the idea of backward-design lesson planning. We, along with our students, determine our learning targets, decide how we will know we have reached those targets, and then plan how to get there. From our collections of stuff, we need only consider those items that can efficiently and productively help our students down the path toward their targets.”
Read the full blog post at http://www.path2proficiency.com/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-the-learning-environment/ and prepare to consider getting rid of some of your carefully-collected files of materials.
Source: path to proficiency
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Title: Book: Course Design for TESOL
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From https://www.press.umich.edu/5113002/course_design_for_tesol
Course Design for TESOL: A Guide to Integrating Curriculum and Teaching
By Florin M. Mihai and Kerry Purmensky
Published by the University of Michigan Press
Course Design for TESOL offers a unique approach of integrating curriculum with teaching activities to allow language educators to utilize the text in a variety of courses in a TESOL program. Although the authors assume readers have a basic knowledge of English grammar, this textbook/resource is designed to be comprehensible to those who have not had an SLA or Applied Linguistics course. Because each language skill is discussed in detail in terms of important theories and concepts and actual teaching activities are included, the book can also be used in a Methods course or a combined Curriculum Design–Methods (or Methods and Materials) course.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://www.press.umich.edu/5113002/course_design_for_tesol
Source: University of Michigan Press
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Title: Book: A Dictionary of Slang among Chinese Youth
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From http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectID=11198018
A Dictionary of Slang among Chinese Youth
By Yuntong Liu
Published by Lincom Academic Publishers
With the development of information technology, young people find more and more opportunities to express themselves in this world. For them language is not only a means to express themselves, but also a means to redefine the language and world around them. Tens of thousands of new words have been created by the present-day Chinese youth and have been circulating among themselves. This dictionary provides a lexical inventory of items used by the present-day Chinese young people. It describes some 1,000 items in a clear and simple way.
This dictionary is not a dictionary in the usual sense. It tries to give a brief explanation to slang words or phrases that young people frequently use. The authors try to explain in plain English, taking both native English speakers and ESL (English as Second Language) speakers as their readers.
This dictionary targets foreign students, journalists, and others interested in China and Chinese language and culture.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectID=11198018
Source: Lincom Academic Publishers
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Title: Book: Advances in Understanding Multilingualism: A Global Perspective
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Advances in Understanding Multilingualism: A Global Perspective
Edited by Sambor Grucza, Magdalena Olpińska-Szkiełko, and Piotr Romanowski
Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Multilingualism is broadly understood as the knowledge and use of two or more languages by individuals in their everyday lives, both private and professional. It is increasingly acknowledged as an important issue of the contemporary world and the interest in the matter of multilingualism is growing rapidly in many areas, such as research, politics, or education. The authors of this book combine some of the questions in a truly interdisciplinary perspective in order to provide an insight into the variety and diversity of research problems of multilingualism. This collection is divided into ten chapters considering the selected matters from different points of view, gathering together empirical research from various fields.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=90300&concordeid=266761
Source: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
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Title: Call for Presentations: Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
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From http://sils2016.com/
23rd Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
Billings, Montana
June 6th & 7th 2016
The 2016 SILS will feature key note addresses, research presentations, paper submissions, workshops, forums, and advocacy training. Among the many highlights is a special tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield, and a tribute to the late Darryl Kipp who was so instrumental in advancing the Immersion School Movement in Indian Country.
Presentations for workshops, papers, demonstrations, and panel discussions are being solicited; the deadline for submission is May 20.
View the call for presentations at http://sils2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-SILS-Call-for-Presenters-Form.pdf
Visit the main SILS 2016 website at http://sils2016.com/
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Title: Call for Session Proposals: Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association Fall Conference 2016
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From http://www.psmla.net/event/psmla-fall-conference-2016
The Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association is inviting session proposals for its fall conference, to take place October 13-15, 2016, in Erie. Proposals are welcome in any pertinent area, especially technology, methodology, materials, techniques, assessments, standards, connections to other disciplines and the local and world community, as well as sessions in target languages. Exhibitors are welcome to submit pedagogical, but not marketing proposals. Sessions on both days are 60 minutes in length, with the possibility of a limited number of half-hour sessions.
Session proposals must be submitted by April 22, 2016.
View the full call for proposals at http://www.psmla.net/event/psmla-fall-conference-2016
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