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Title: What You Need to Include in an ELL Needs Assessment
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From http://blog.tesol.org/what-you-need-to-include-in-an-ell-needs-assessment/
Nathan Hall writes, “There will be some familiar faces at the end of summer as well as new students who you have little data about beyond their placement test scores or previous school records. Those can indicate the level of instruction for grouping purposes, but to really find out what students at the secondary level already know and need to learn, it helps to do a needs assessment early in the school year. That’s why I start each session with a few assessments, such as icebreaker games or short writings, to understand where students are starting from and to get an idea of what the most pressing needs may be so I can tailor the instruction to their needs.
“After developing, changing, scrapping, and redeveloping those tests about a dozen times, I found some things to keep in mind before handing them to students.”
Read on for a few suggestions: http://blog.tesol.org/what-you-need-to-include-in-an-ell-needs-assessment/
Source: TESOL
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Title: Techniques for Keeping the Class in the Target Language
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From https://sradentlinger.wordpress.com
Read middle and high school Spanish teacher Elizabeth Dentlinger’s suggestions for things that you can do to keep your class speaking the target language: https://sradentlinger.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/keeping-class-in-the-target-language/
Source: La Clase de la Señora Dentlinger
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Title: Icons for Classroom Management
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From https://tekhnologic.wordpress.com/
Here is an English teacher’s discussion of hieroglyphs or icons that can be used to make your classroom instructions clear, along with a set of symbols created for explaining activities: https://tekhnologic.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/hieroglyphics-for-teachers-graphic-communication-in-the-classroom/
Source: tekhnologic
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Title: Setting Up an Oral Final Exam
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From http://leesensei.edublogs.org
Teacher Colleen Lee-Hayes has written a wonderful blog post about her criteria for a good final oral exam for her high school students, and how she set things up so that groups of four students recorded themselves conversing with each other in the target language. Read her post here: http://leesensei.edublogs.org/2016/06/21/setting-them-up-for-the-real-world-what-should-an-oral-final-be/#.V3BS-46aw68
Source: Language Sensei
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Title: July 2016 Issue of Language Magazine
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The July 2016 issue of Language Magazine is available at http://languagemagazine.com/?p=125705
In this Spanish-focused issue:
America’s Lingua Franca? Could Spanish become the language of choice throughout the Americas?
Learning with Purpose. Kristal Bivona looks at teaching specialized Spanish programs.
Study Travel. Costa Rica & Guatemala
Why French? Kathy Stein-Smith explains why demand is growing for French the world over.
A Whole Lot of Axolotls. Paula Cuello & Lori Langer de Ramirez explore environmental studies in the Spanish classroom.
A Literacy Autobiography. Yew Hock Yeo, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chow, and Stephen Krashen share a tale worth reading.
Teaching Sin Fronteras. How a Spanish teacher’s quest to help his students led to the creation of an international publishing company.
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Free eBook: Teach Language Asynchronously
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From http://blogs.transparent.com/language-news/2016/07/06/teach-language-asynchronously-free-ebook/
Asynchronous learning is a student-centered teaching approach that employs a wide variety of web, mobile, and cloud-based tools outside of regular school hours. This method removes the constraints of time and place, enabling students to learn where, when, and also how they want.
The tools at your disposal are many: social media, mobile applications, collaborative communication, learning objects, blogs, and beyond. But knowing how to use them and tie everything together into one neat online learning environment is crucial to student and teacher success.
Download a free eBook from Transparent Language at http://blogs.transparent.com/language-news/2016/07/06/teach-language-asynchronously-free-ebook/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Book: The Linguistics of Sign Languages
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From https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.199/main
The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Edited by Anne Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages.
This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.
The book is accompanied by a website containing assignments, video clips and links to web resources.
Visit the publisher’s website at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.199/main
If you are interested in this book, you may also be interested in this one:
Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics
by Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde
Published by the John Benjamins Publishing Company
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf themselves.
Visit the webpage for this book at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.201/main
Source: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Title: Book: Vanishing Languages in Context
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Vanishing Languages in Context
Edited by Martin Pütz and Neele Mundt
Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=89665&concordeid=267049
Source: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
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Title: Book: Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095889
Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation: A Practitioner Perspective from Japan
By Richard J. Sampson
Published by Multilingual Matters
This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular, situated research project. Working from the lived experience of the participants, the study describes how action research methods were used to explore the dynamic conditions operating in a foreign language classroom in Japan. The book draws attention to the highly personalized and individual, yet equally co-formed nature of classroom foreign language learning motivation and to the importance of agency and emotions in language learning. It presents an extended illustration of the applicability of complex systems theory for research design and process in SLA and its narrative approach shines light upon the evolving nature of research and role of the researcher. The study will be a valuable resource for practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students interested in classroom language teaching and learning, especially those with a focus on motivation among learners.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783095889
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Teaching Russian Conference
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From http://web.uvic.ca/~russconf/
Teaching Russian is a biannual conference that promotes innovative methods for teaching the Russian language at the secondary and post-secondary level. The conference organizers welcome Russian language instructors and students to the next conference which will be held at the University of Victoria in Canada on Thursday and Friday, August 25-26, 2016.
Visit the conference website at http://web.uvic.ca/~russconf/
Source: University of Victoria
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