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Title: Beginner’s Guide to Chinese eBook
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From Transparent Language, here is a downloadable free eBook introducing learning to Chinese. The document includes introductions, numbers, measure words, questions, information about tones, and more.
Available at http://blogs.transparent.com/chinese/beginners-guide-to-chinese-ebook/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Website: Real Life in Russia
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From http://www.shannovative.com/RLIR/
The Real Life in Russia website features a series of lessons designed to prepare students for study abroad in Russia. The lessons are intended for students who have completed one or two years of Russian language study, but since their focus is cultural, they can be used with students of any level.
The current lessons are as follows:
Host Family Life: the House
Host Family Life: Eating
Transportation lesson 1: the metro
Transportation lesson 2: other forms of public transportation
Shopping
Telephone
Train travel
Hotels
Using Russian search engines
Sending email and using social media
Real Life in Russia is available at http://www.shannovative.com/RLIR/
Source: Real Life in Russia
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Title: Two Russian Children’s Poems
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Here are two popular children’s poems in Russian, with discussion of each: http://blogs.transparent.com/russian/popular-childrens-poems-in-russian-part-i
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: German Heritage Resources
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Members of the American Association of Teachers of German listserv have been sharing resources dealing with German heritage and influence in the United States. Here are some of them:
The Society for German-American Studies is “an international professional organization dedicated to encouraging and advancing the scholarly study of the history, language, literature, and culture of the German element in the Americas.” Their website is available at http://sgas.org/
The German Society of Maryland is for “anyone interested in learning about and preserving the German heritage in Maryland.” Their website is available at http://www.germansociety-md.com/default.htm
The German-American Heritage Foundation “aims to highlight the history of our ancestors as well as the impact they and the coming generations of German-Americans had in shaping the USA.” Their website is available at http://www.gahmusa.org/
The German National Tourist Office and the German Information Center USA have put together the German Originality website, about German American heritage, available at http://www.germany.travel/en/ms/german-originality/home.html
An online book, The German Americans: An Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams, Lavern J. Rippley, and Eberhard Reichmann, is available at http://maxkade.iupui.edu/adams/toc.html
The German-American Heritage Museum in Washington DC celebrates, displays, and commends the achievements of American immigrants from German-speaking countries. Their website is available at https://washington.org/find-dc-listings/german-american-heritage-museum
Spurensuche is a website dedicated to the German-speaking communities in Chicago and the Midwest. Their website is available at http://www.spurensuchemidwest.org/
The Goethe-Institut’s German Roots website explores people from the German-speaking world in American history. Explore it at https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/sup/deu.html
About.com’s German Language site has an alphabetical list of famous German-Americans with very short biographical sketches of each person, available here: http://german.about.com/library/blfam_geramABC.htm
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Title: French Songs for Language Classes
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From https://cecilelaine.wordpress.com/
In this short blog post French teacher Cécile Lainé discusses where she finds popular songs in French and lists the ones she plans to use this year as a Song of the Week: https://cecilelaine.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/chanson-de-la-semaine-intermediate/
Source: Cécile Lainé
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Title: Free eBook: Beginner’s Guide to French
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Here is a free download, a “Beginner’s Guide to French” including discussions of accents, definite and indefinite articles, numbers, negation, questions, and more: http://blogs.transparent.com/french/beginners-guide-to-french-free-ebook/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: Article: African Immigrants Drive French-speaking Renaissance in Maine
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African immigrants drive French-speaking renaissance in Maine
Refugees join with the Franco community to revitalize a language some had feared could disappear in the state.
by Peter McGuire
July 31, 2016
The Hillview French club is part of a small, but growing, French language revival in Maine, aided by hundreds of Francophone Africans who coincidentally settled in a state with almost two centuries of French heritage.
Lifelong Mainers trying to preserve their French heritage aren’t the only ones benefiting.
Blandine Injonge, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was surprised when she arrived in Lewiston a few years ago and stumbled on its Franco community.
“Discovering that was like coming home,” Injonge said. Now she works for the Franco Center, hosts the Hillview French club, and loans French books from a small library in her apartment. When she moved to the U.S., Injonge was concerned she and other Africans might lose French, so she formed the club to help the language survive. She was happy, and surprised, when Franco-Americans started joining in.
“When we came here, we felt like we were abandoned children, but now we feel like we’ve been adopted by the Franco-American community,” Injonge said.
Francophone Africans have made an impression elsewhere in Maine, filling the pews at French Mass and starting after-school French programs.
Read the full article at http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/31/when-cultures-click-it-could-mean-a-renaissance-for-french-speaking-in-maine/
Source: Portland Press Herald
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Title: Story Available for Download: El Oso y las Abejas
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From http://www.spanishplayground.net/
Here is a story in Spanish, available for download in PDF format. The story, appropriate for young children, is available in three different versions at three different levels. The download also includes drawings of the characters that children can color and cut out.
This resource is available at http://www.spanishplayground.net/spanish-story-pdf-el-oso-y-las-abejas/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: Beginning of the Year Netflix Unit for Novices
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From https://marishawkins.wordpress.com/
Here is Maris Hawkins’ description of the unit she will start the year with in her Spanish 2 class. The unit description includes the integrated performance assessment (IPA) that will be used at the end and descriptions of several activities that she will use.
Access this unit description at https://marishawkins.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/beginning-of-the-year-unit-for-novices-netflix/
Source: Maris Hawkins
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Title: Article: Toward a New Research Agenda to Improve Outcomes for Adolescent English Learners
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This recent report by Carola Suárez-Orozco and Vivian Louie summarizes a focus group meeting regarding the challenges facing English learners. They conclude:
“Despite their differences, newcomers and English learners who have lived in the U.S. for some time are often socially isolated, and many have pressing educational and social-emotional needs. Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers should work together to address the challenges facing these young people—both the newcomers who are adjusting to their homeland and dealing with acculturative stress, and the long term ELs who may not be hearing or engaging in enough high-level conversational discourse to develop their skills. Whether research identifies the extra supports needed to develop skills or opportunities to participate in rich language use, there is more we can do to improve outcomes for these English learners.
“Inclusion is at the forefront of this research agenda, both in terms of the education that English learners have and their exposure to peer and teacher relationships and in developing research questions that practitioners and policymakers want to have answered. This will mean doing a better job of both identifying what works, in what contexts, and for which learners, and also developing ongoing and sustained in-service professional development to support teachers.
“Systematically considering programs, practices, and policies that may move the needle in some of these important areas is the next frontier of research if we want to address inequality for this fast growing group of students.”
Read the full article here: http://wtgrantfoundation.org/toward-new-research-agenda-improve-outcomes-adolescent-english-learners
Source: William T. Grant Foundation
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