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Title: Learn Alberta: Resources for English Language Learners
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The Learn Alberta website includes a Supporting English Language Learners page that includes downloadable research articles as well as resources for schools, parents, and other stakeholders. The webpage is available at http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/eslapb/resources_research.html
Source: Learn Alberta
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Title: Olympic Games Resources
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The Olympic Games opened last Friday (and actually, so soccer games took place before then). Here are some more resources that you may find useful during this international celebration of athleticism:
An article and “story map” detailing some of the issues Brazil has had hosting the Olympic Games: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2016/rio-olympics/
Some rules of Spanish mechanics in formal writing about the Olympics: http://www.fundeu.es/recomendacion/juegos-olimpicos-claves-de-redaccion/
A crossword puzzle for English language learners: http://www.englishblog.com/2016/08/crossword-english-38-the-olympic-games.html#.V6PVWI6aw69
Source: Various
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Title: Ideas for the Beginning of the School Year
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Here are some more resources and ideas for the beginning of the school year:
Bulletin board ideas: https://somewheretoshare.com/2016/08/03/planning-for-proficiency/
An example of an infographic syllabus for a French class: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/my-new-infographic-syllabus/
Advocating for your program: http://senoraspeedy.blogspot.com/2016/07/its-time-to-advocate.html
Advice for new teachers: https://spanishplans.org/2016/07/24/getting-the-year-started/
A Spanish teacher’s lesson plans for the first two days of class: https://marishawkins.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/first-two-days-of-school-my-lesson-plans/
Rituals for your class to consider establishing from Day 1: https://sradentlinger.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/rituals-in-the-world-language-class/
A video about student furniture arrangement: http://www.lightninglanguagevlog.com/#!Student-Furniture-Arrangement/cmja3/574e09750cf276dcd0adf876
Classroom management tips for K-12 learners: http://e-learning-teleformacion.blogspot.com/2016/08/classroom-management-tips-for-kids-and.html#.V6ORI46awfs
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Title: #AuthRes: Authentic Resource Sharing
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Last week (http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21595) we noted that teacher, blogger, and teacher trainer Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell is asking teachers to share their favorite authentic resources using the hashtag #AuthRes. Here are some teachers’ responses so far:
From Spanish teacher Maris Hawkins: https://marishawkins.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/authres-august/
From French teacher Wendy Farabaugh: https://mmefarab.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/authres-august/
From French teacher Megan Sulewski: https://talesfromthesalledeclasse.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/authres-august-version-francaise/
From Spanish teacher Melanie Stilson: https://lasclasesdestilson.wordpress.com/2016/08/04/authresaugust/
Read how you can find even more resources using Twitter in this post by Ms. Cottrell: http://musicuentos.com/2016/08/twitter/
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Title: Pokémon Go! in Language Classrooms
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Your InterCom editor has caught the Pokémon Go! bug along with her co-workers at CASLS. We are thrilled to see an augmented reality game be so successful, since place-based augmented reality games for language learning is one of our areas of research (explore our pebll website to see one of our projects at http://pebll.uoregon.edu/). The use of commercial games for language learning is another focus of ours; see our Games2Teach website to learn more at https://games2teach.uoregon.edu/.
Spanish teacher Laura K. Sexton recently wrote on her blog about her quest to incorporate Pokémon Go! into her Spanish curriculum, principally by facilitating student discourse around and about the game. See what she is planning and get ideas for your own classroom here: http://www.pblinthetl.com/2016/07/pokemon-vamos-pokemon-go-for-spanish.html. Although the materials she found are in Spanish, given the popularity of this game, undoubtedly teachers of other languages can find similar materials.
Rachel Ash describes how she will create her own version of Pokémon Go! for her Latin students, using simplified technology, in this blog post: http://pomegranatebeginnings.blogspot.com/2016/08/pokemon-go-gotta-catch-them-all-in-tl.html?m=1. Again, you can adapt this idea to any language.
For more ideas and resources, read this recent post by middle and high school Spanish teacher Elizabeth Dentlinger: https://sradentlinger.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/pokemongo-en-espanol/
Source: Various
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Title: Energizing Review Games
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From http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com
Here are 14 different high-energy games that can be used to review something that your students have read, or adapted to other situations: http://palmyraspanish1.blogspot.com/2016/07/14-energizing-review-games.html
Source: Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input
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Title: Proficiency-Based Grading
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French teacher Lisa Shepard has switched her curriculum to be proficiency-based, with a focus on the use of authentic resources instead of textbook exercises. In this blog post, she reflects on her efforts to switch to proficiency-based grading, as well, using rubrics available from Ohio’s department of education: http://madameshepard.com/?p=1227
Source: Madame's Musings
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Title: Tour Builder: Google App for Building Digital Tours
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From https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/about/faq
Tour Builder is a new way to show people the places you've visited and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation. Currently in beta, Tour Builder is available at https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/. This could be a good tool for your students to use to create presentations or for you to use to show your students different aspects of the culture they’re learning about.
Source: Google Earth
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Title: LTS Students Working for CASLS
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CASLS employs and supports many current Language Teaching Specialization (LTS) graduate students.
Kathryn Carpenter, graduating this month, has worked at CASLS as a Graduate Teaching Fellow during her time at LTS, and served as materials developer and researcher. Her focus during her time in LTS was on the individual learner, motivation and engagement, the use of differentiated instruction and functional language learning, and she therefore developed the Individual Motivating Factors motivational framework in her capstone project with Julie Sykes as her advisor.
Becky Lawrence also worked at CASLS as an intern and assessment rater. While an intern, Becky worked on Ecopod and developed her own narrative-based mobile game for language learners using ARIS software. She is now working on her capstone project developing a gamified course design of a creative writing EFL class where students work collaboratively to create narrative-based games playable on mobile devices using ARIS. The goal is to help learners strengthen linguistic competence while expressing themselves in way that they are unable to do in academic writing, and to develop learners’ pragmatic skills and support autonomy and creativity. Becky will graduate next fall, and CASLS looks forward to working with her in her last year.
Christopher Daradics, also graduating this month, has worked as an intern and Graduate Teaching Fellow during his time at LTS, and will now move into a full-time position. The LTS program allowed him to explore the embodied nature of meaning and the ecology of language; specifically, the role and interconnectedness of space, place, time, emotions, and relationships on perception and understanding of the world. For his capstone project, he developed an iterative, paper-based curriculum that creates scaffolded opportunities for language gains, interpersonal relationship development, and metacognitive and existential growth through SLA. His time in LTS influenced his research interests and integrative approach to language learning, and also enhanced his visual and experience design skills, and he is excited to bring this experience to CASLS.
Other CASLS graduate students include Ava Swanson and Anna Torkkola, assessment raters and August graduates.
Source: CASLS Spotlight
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Title: Book: Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing
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From http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119296528.html
Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar
By Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Published by Wiley
Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O'Donnell present a view of language as a complex adaptive system that is learned through usage. In a series of research studies, they analyze Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs) in first and second language learning, processing, and use. Drawing on diverse epistemological and methodological perspectives, they show how language emerges out of multiple experiences of meaning-making. In the development of both mother tongue and additional languages, each usage experience affects construction knowledge following general principles of learning relating to frequency, contingency, and semantic prototypicality. The implications of this work will be of value to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplinary interests in language and learning.
Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119296528.html
Source: Wiley
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