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Title: First-Year Russian Available Online at University of Texas this Summer
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From https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/news/14057
The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is proud to offer a new online Russian language course for beginners.
RUS w406 FIRST-YEAR RUSSIAN I will run the whole summer session, from June 6–August 16, 2019. It is part of a new three-semester online Russian language course developed at UT, called "Будем на связи." All three levels will be running simultaneously in the upcoming Fall and Spring semesters of 2019–2020.
This sequence is designed around ACTFL proficiency guidelines and aims to bring students to an Intermediate-level proficiency upon completion of the third semester. The classes are self-paced with weekly deadlines and class videoconferences, emphasizing both a strong student-centered community and instructor presence.
Learn more about the online course sequence at https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/news/14057
Source: University of Texas at Austin
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Title: Latin, Greek, and Baseball
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From http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com
In this short article, learn about two baseball figures, Moe Berg and Bartlett Giamatti, who also used classical languages. Berg's language knowledge and how it benefited him and the United States in his life is especially inspirational. The article concludes with a short list of baseball vocabulary in Latin.
Read the article at http://bcpublishers.blogspot.com/2019/05/latin-greek-and-american-pastime.html
Source: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
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Title: Article about Living Latin
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Students learn to speak Latin, ‘the un-dead language’
By Zoe Greenberg
May 23, 2019
In schools across Massachusetts and the country, teachers are throwing out the memorized charts of verb conjugations and noun declensions that were once essential to a Latin education, and instead emphasizing the spoken word. The goal is to make Latin more inclusive and more engaging for kids in 2019.
...For the past 150 years, Latin was taught with a hard focus on grammar and translation (“I love the periphrastic,” one teacher said wistfully, referring to a passive construction in Latin that expresses an obligation like “ought”). Before that, spoken Latin was the norm in classrooms, according to Diane Anderson, a lecturer in classics at UMass Boston. Over the years, grammar-focused Latin gained a reputation for being stuffy and exclusive.
The “living Latin” movement aims to excise the stuffiness and bring the language to a wider audience.
Read the full article at https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/23/students-learn-speak-latin-dead-language/npU5YsHGXdD3OLAiaBpUhL/story.html
Source: Boston Globe
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Title: French Lesson: Un Journal Intime
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In this new French lesson by Jim Law, students read excerpts from the anonymous diary of a Parisian high school student. They will be able to analyze the effect of anonymity and privacy on content, perspective, and grammatical form in the personal journal genre. They will also identify patterns in the structuring of quotidian narratives. Students will then be able to employ these narrative structures in their own journaling and reflect on their experience playing with this genre in the target language.
This lesson was created as part of the Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) project.
Read "Un journal intime" lesson at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W0E3jDkyccv6TqLt5jjk6vWOUy8LLIaj/view
View other FLLITE lessons in Chinese, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish at https://fllite.org/lessons-by-language/
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Title: French Poetry Idea: "Je Suis" Poems
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
Samantha Decker has a nice template for creating poems: lines beginning with "je suis" alternating with lines beginning with "je ne suis," accompanied by three images about the poet. See examples in her blog post: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2019/05/theyre-poets-and-they-know-it.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Summer Spanish Activity Calendars
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From https://www.spanishplayground.net
Free from Spanish Playground, here are two levels of calendars of daily links to Spanish activities for elementary Spanish learners: https://www.spanishplayground.net/summer-activity-calendar-2019-spanish/
Source: Spanish Playground
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Title: All about H in Spanish
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Fundéu, the Fundación del español urgente, has recently published an article summarizing where h is used and not used in Spanish orthography; read it at https://www.fundeu.es/blog/reglas-de-ortografia-de-la-h/
Source: Fundéu
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Title: Series about Teaching Adult English Learners
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From http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
A few weeks ago, Larry Ferlazzo invited readers to write about their experiences teaching adult English learners. Here are three responses:
Antoinette Perez, a high school English and ELD teacher in California, writes about strategies that have worked best for her: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/05/09/guest-post-teaching-adult-english-language-learners/
Leighton Suen, an ENL/ELA teacher in New York with five years' experience teaching adult ESL classes, talks about the reactions of the adult Chinese women in his classes to their portrayal in Asian-American TV shows and movies: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/05/19/guest-post-representation-in-media-matters-but-what-kind-of-representation/
Coral Russell, who has been teaching English learners in four countries over the last 13 years, talks about her successes and challenges teaching adult learners in the Aspire program: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/05/25/guest-post-working-with-adult-english-learners/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
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Title: Total Physical Response for English Learners
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Valentina Gonzalez gives an overview of James Asher's TPR technique, including adaptations and extensions that others have added over the years, and describes how it can be used with English learners in content classes in this article: https://seidlitzblog.org/2019/05/08/total-physical-response-learning-through-action/
Source: Seidlitz Education
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Title: Where Are English Learners in the United States
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From http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org
Larry Ferlazzo writes, "Every year I share the annual Condition of Education report from The National Center for Education Statistics.
"They’re always about two-and-a-half years behind the present-day, but it also always presents the most accurate date about ed that you’re going to find anyway.
"They have just released The Condition of Education 2019."
Mr. Ferlazzo has pulled some charts and graphs from the report, showing the percentage of students who are English learners in each state; whether most English learners are in urban, suburban, town, or rural settings; their grade levels; and the most commonly reported home languages. Access them at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/05/22/hot-off-the-press-the-most-up-to-date-statistics-on-english-language-learners-in-the-u-s/
The full report is available at https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2019144
Source: Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
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