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Title: Desky Kernowek: Audio Course in Cornish
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On this site, Dan Prohaska provides a set of audio lessons for learning Cornish: https://www.kernewegva.com/deskikernowek.html
Source: Desky Kernowek
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Title: Nuntii Latini to Go Off the Air
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From https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/737102375/finlands-yle-radio-ends-latin-newscast-after-30-years
We've highlighted Nuntii Latini, a weekly radio broadcast (also available on the Internet) about current events in Latin (https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/7866). Unfortunately, this broadcast is being terminated. Read an interview with producer Outi Kaltio at https://www.npr.org/2019/06/28/737102375/finlands-yle-radio-ends-latin-newscast-after-30-years
You can still visit the Nuntii Latini website at https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339
Source: NPR
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Title: Podcast: Afro-Mexican Stories with Michelle Nicola
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In Episode 110 of the We Teach Languages podcast series, Stacey Johnson talks with Spanish teacher Michelle Nicola who spent several months in Mexico last fall learning about what it means to be a Mexican person of African descent. Michelle discusses the Fulbright award that funded her research project as well as the people she met and interviewed in Mexico. Now back home with interviews in hand from her time abroad, Michelle also shares her plans for how she will make these stories of Afro-Mexican people accessible and comprehensible for novice Spanish students everywhere.
Listen to this podcast and access the show notes at https://weteachlang.com/2019/06/28/110-with-michelle-nicola/
Source: We Teach Languages
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Title: Connecting the Community for English Learners
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From https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/06/23/connecting-the-community/
Tracey Smith writes, "I’m the principal at Brookwood Elementary, where we serve more than 1,200 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Approximately 10% of our students are English language learners (ELLs). That may not be an especially high percentage (my previous school was 25% ELLs), but our ELLs speak many, many different languages. We have two students from Romania who speak zero English. This morning, I met a family that just arrived from China. None of them speak any English at all.
"...At Brookwood, we have a Positive Learning Environment Committee that chooses a theme for every school year. For this year, the theme is “we are connected,” so our common goal is for everything we do as a school to inspire every single teacher, student, administrator, and employee in our building to feel that sense of interconnectedness. Here’s how we’re using this mindset and other social-emotional learning (SEL) principles to not only overcome the language gap our ELLs face but to make all of our students feel that they are part of the same supportive community."
Read on for the details of what's happening in Brookwood Elementary: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/06/23/connecting-the-community/
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Teaching about Endangered Species in Language Class
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From http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com
Laura Flynn McClintock shares seven ways to teach about endangered species in world language classes in this blog post: http://teachinginthetargetlanguage.com/7-ways-to-teach-about-endangered-species-in-the-world-language-class/
Source: Teaching in the Target Language
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Title: Using Superhero Comic Book Maker HD for Speaking Assignments
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
Samantha Decker describes her recent experience using Superhero Comic Book Maker HD with her students so that they could create cartoon conversations, using recordings of themselves talking: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2019/06/using-superhero-comic-book-maker.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Online Document: Language Museums of the World
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Here is a 138-page PDF listing known language museums all over the world: https://www.aasentunet.no/filestore/PDF/Talar_og_artiklar/814-20180314LanguagemuseumsOG.pdf
Read more about this resource at https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/185966091762/language-museums-of-the-world
Source: Centre for Norwegian Language and Literature
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Title: Station Rotation in World Language Classes
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From https://www.edutopia.org/article/station-rotation-world-language-classes
Elena Spathis writes, "World language teachers want to get our students actively using the target language, of course. And if we also want to get them moving and collaborating, an ideal activity is a station rotation—posting a variety of activities, or stations, around the classroom and having students move from one to another to complete each task. We can set up the stations to require individual work or small-group collaboration."
Read her full article, in which she provides tips for setting up stations and discusses benefits and potential challenges of stations, at https://www.edutopia.org/article/station-rotation-world-language-classes
Source: Edutopia
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Title: The Benefits of Memorizing Poetry
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From https://www.edutopia.org/article/benefits-memorizing-poetry
Your InterCom editor remembers memorizing Spanish and French poems to recite at language competitions for high schoolers and has wondered over the years if her language proficiency was impacted by those efforts. In this recent article, Erin Medeiros lists five benefits of memorizing poetry: choice, concrete learning task, confidence, continuing learning, and challenging memory and recall. Read the full article and decide if you want to make more space for poetry in your classroom: https://www.edutopia.org/article/benefits-memorizing-poetry
Source: Edutopia
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Title: Kind Noes and Bigger Yeses
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By Mandy Gettler, CASLS Associate Director
This Topic of the Week is part of our July series on self-care. It expands upon Disposition 5: Prioritizing Mental and Physical Health.
I thought I was meeting a friend for coffee, but it turned into one of those moments where I felt horribly unprepared.
“Do you want to meet for dinner tonight?” he asked.
I wanted to say no, because I desperately wanted some alone time. But I also want to have friends, so I said yes instead. Saying no to a reasonable request, quite frankly, didn’t seem nice.
It turned out saying yes was actually the opposite of kind; I had accidentally, unwittingly done a cruel thing.
My friend and I had an awful time together.
I didn’t pay attention to anything he said nor did I hold up my part of the conversation. Saying no to dinner and yes to getting together next week when I felt more recharged would have been the truly kind response.
Instead, I had said yes and been a total jerk.
(Later, I apologized for being a total jerk, and no one likes admitting and apologizing for their bad behavior. So really, I was unkind to both of us just because I couldn’t say no.)
We each say yes, implicitly and explicitly, hundreds of times each day. Lest you think I am prone to hyperbole, here is a list of things I say yes to every day before 8:00 AM:
- Hitting the snooze button on my alarm so I can lie in bed for ten minutes
- Making and drinking tea
- Reading
- Writing
- Showering
- Getting dressed
- Eating breakfast
- Brushing my teeth
- Waking up my two children
- Getting cereal for them
- Asking them to get dressed and brush their teeth
- Feeding the cat
- Cleaning up cat vomit
- Putting lunch boxes in backpacks
Could I have answered emails, written a section of a grant, washed dishes from the night before, or made my kids scrambled eggs and pancakes for breakfast* instead? Of course. I could have said yes to those activities, too. But I said no to doing those things, because I wanted to say yes to something bigger.
I say yes to getting up at 5:30 AM every day so that I have time to myself in a quiet house to read and write. This morning routine keeps me centered. I’m more patient. I’m a better problem solver. I’m more compassionate. And I go to bed at the end of each day liking myself a little more and feeling fulfilled – which in turn makes me a better parent, friend, partner, and employee.
There are things in life we must do to be capable human beings, like brushing our teeth and cleaning up cat vomit. Then there are things we choose to do, like getting up at 5:30 AM every day. Sometimes, the things we choose to say yes to don’t even seem valuable to the outside world, like lying in bed for ten minutes after the alarm goes off so I can feel the summer sun on my face. I say yes to that anyway, because waking up early and yet slowly feels good to me.
This week’s Activity of the Week challenges you to think of all the things to which you say yes. What would happen if you said a kind no and a bigger yes to something else instead? Are there types of requests you are more likely to say yes to without thinking? If so, how can you learn to pause so you have the option of making a kind no in exchange for a bigger yes?
* I do sometimes make eggs and pancakes for breakfast, so don’t feel too bad for my children. They are well fed, and they also really like cereal.
Source: CASLS Topic of the Week
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