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Title: Learn about Italian Cognates
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From https://blogs.transparent.com/italian/italian-cognates/
Your InterCom editor used to think that cognates were any words that had similar form and meaning in two languages. In fact, cognates share the same etymological origin; borrowed and coincidentally similar words are not cognates. In any case, looking for cognates and being aware of false cognates and false friends is helpful for building vocabulary.
Read this blog post to learn more about Italian / English cognates: https://blogs.transparent.com/italian/italian-cognates/
Source: Transparent Language
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Title: TED-Ed Video: What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?
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Here is a 5-minute video in English about the Library of Alexandria - its rise and fall: https://youtu.be/jvWncVbXfJ0
A lesson to accompany the video is available at https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox
Source: TED-Ed
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Title: Family Activities for Young Spanish Learners - with Math Integration
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From https://senoraspeedy.blogspot.com
Here are several ideas for teaching and practicing Spanish to talk about students' families - including tallies, graphs, and charts: https://senoraspeedy.blogspot.com/2018/07/la-familia-activities-and-2-free.html
Source: Señora Speedy
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Title: Short Video about Mayan Deer Dance in Guatemala
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Here is a 3:24 video about a Mayan dance that is performed each year in Patzún, Guatemala: https://vimeo.com/284194974
Source: Vimeo
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Title: DeVos May Bypass Congress to Get Rid of the Office for English-Learners
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DeVos May Bypass Congress to Get Rid of the Office for English-Learners. Can She?
By Corey Mitchell
August 6, 2018
The U.S. Department of Education is forging ahead with plans to scraps the federal office of English-language acquisition—perhaps without seeking congressional approval or public comment on the proposal.
A coalition of English-language-learner advocates fears the department is headed that way, based on their correspondence with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' top deputy.
"The threat is real," said Rebeca Shackleford, an education policy analyst with UnidosUS.
Several groups contacted by Education Week insist that Deputy Education Secretary Mick Zais has sidestepped their questions about whether the department will get the OK from Congress before enacting the proposal—which would fold the office of English-language acquisition, or OELA, into the office for elementary and secondary education. The plan would also eliminate the director's position for OELA, a job currently held by José Viana.
Read the full article at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2018/08/could_devos_scrap_the_federal_ELL_office.html
Source: Education Week
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Title: I Do, We Do, We Do, You Do: Strategy for Peer Teaching
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From http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
In this post, Larry Ferlazzo describes how his student teacher Amber Kantner guides Newcomer English learners through the process of teaching cloze exercises to their peers, as an example of how students can teach their classmates: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/08/10/a-look-back-a-fourth-step-i-do-we-do-you-do-and-then-you-teach/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
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Title: Video Series: American English Regional Vocabulary Differences
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American English has many YouTube videos for English learners and teachers. A new series discusses different words for things in different parts of the country, in slow, clear English. Access the new playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BlTIDdOgZIFbUNBO8ozpefcd8hl4DJE
Explore other American English videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/StateAmericanEnglish/featured?disable_polymer=1
Source: YouTube
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Title: English Learners Succeeding
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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/08/08/english-learners-succeeding/
English Learners Succeeding
August 8, 2018
A new study finds that scores from students who speak a language other than English at home have improved dramatically over the last 15 years. Students who speak a language other than English at home have improved in reading and math much more substantially since 2003 than previously reported, according to a study published this month in Educational Researcher. “Hidden Progress of Multilingual Students on NAEP” by Michael J. Kieffer, associate professor of literacy education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, debunks a common myth that multilingual students and English learners have made little progress in academic achievement in recent years and that U.S. schools continue to fail these students.
Read the full summary at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/08/08/english-learners-succeeding/
Read the original article at https://www.aera.net/Newsroom/Recent-AERA-Research/Hidden-Progress-of-Multilingual-Students-on-NAEP
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: What Does Proficiency Oriented Instruction Look Like?
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Martina Bex gives an overview of language proficiency (content, function, and accuracy), and the importance of global competence, a description of student-centered instruction (based on work by our sister LRC, CARLA). She then provides several examples of good practice in enough detail for teachers to easily use the techniques in their own classrooms.
Read the full blog post at https://martinabex.com/2018/08/14/proficiency-oriented-language-instruction/
Source: The Comprehensible Classroom
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Title: When Bilingual Children Don't Want to Speak the Home Language
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Ingrid Piller writes, "When my daughter was five years old, she one day solemnly informed me that, from now on, she was no longer going to speak German because it was not good for her health. “German hurts my throat”, she explained. The statement showed astute phonetic and psychological judgement. She had identified the kind of argument that would carry weight with her parents (in a way that “I don’t like German” or “Everyone else speaks English” might not have).
"My response was to explain the basics of articulation to her and to conclude my explanation with the assertion that, because German is more guttural than English, German-speaking kids get to eat more lollies than English-speaking kids do. For the time being, that was the end of that attempt to change our family language.
"For bilingual children, the early primary years are a common point of linguistic rebellion. At that time the dominant language starts to make its weight felt through the school and children begin to see their family from the outside for the first time in their lives. The combined discovery of a stronger language and of social difference may lead them to reject the home language."
Read the full article at http://www.languageonthemove.com/bilingual-children-refusing-to-speak-the-home-language/
Source: Language on the Move
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