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Title: LCTL Partnership at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement
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From http://lctlpartnership.celta.msu.edu/
The Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is housed in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) at Michigan State University. This cross-university initiative utilizes the established and widely recognized strengths within the Big Ten Academic Alliance to collaboratively develop an online model of LCTL instruction reflecting best practices in proficiency-oriented instruction. The project includes research in LCTL proficiency assessment, goal setting, curricular and technological innovations, as well as teacher education and professional development.
The Partnership will be adding Anishinaabemowin, commonly known as Ojibwe, to its program in its new grant cycle.
Read more about the latest developments at the LCTL Partnership at https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/08/18/2-5-million-grant-for-university-lctl-programs/
Explore the LCTL Partnership website at http://lctlpartnership.celta.msu.edu/
Source: CeLTA
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Title: Celebrate Indigenous Languages with Google Earth
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Here's a neat Google Earth interactive: find places around the world where indigenous languages are spoken, and listen to someone speaking in his/her indigenous language: https://earth.google.com/web/data=CiQSIhIgYTY1Y2U1NTk3MzE4MTFlOTkzN2RjN2JkNTNhNDc1ZGI
Read more about this new resource at https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/google-earth-indigenous-languages-1.5240672
Source: Google Earth
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Title: Polish Festival in Portland
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From http://portlandpolonia.org
26th Annual Polish Festival
September 21-22, 2019
Portland, Oregon
The Polish festival is an event for families and singles, adults and children, for food connoisseurs, music lovers, concert goers, dance enthusiasts, … It is for everyone.
The festival includes non-stop stage performances, including a few dance groups and music bands, polka contest on Saturday and Sunday, a street dance, delicious Polish food and imported Polish beer.
Learn more about the festival at http://portlandpolonia.org/news/2019/8/9/welcome-to-the-26th-annual-polish-festival.html
Source: Portland Polonia
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Title: Building Community in a Latin Classroom
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From https://latinbestpracticescir.wordpress.com
Latin teacher Bob Patrick writes, "In the second half of last year, I found ways to begin to work on building community in my classrooms in ways that I had never done before, and the results were very positive. With summer to simmer on some of these ideas, I have made some decisions about building community in my classrooms this year." Read about the activities and classroom jobs that he is using to foster a sense of classroom community here: https://latinbestpracticescir.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/building-community-before-teaching-language/
Source: Latin Best Practices
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Title: Article: Louisiana Says ‘Oui’ to French, Amid Explosion in Dual-Language Schools
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From https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/louisiana-french-dual-language.html
Louisiana Says ‘Oui’ to French, Amid Explosion in Dual-Language Schools
This fall, more American students than ever will start their first day of school learning in a language other than English.
by Richard Fausset
August 21, 2019
This fall, more American students than ever will start their first day of school learning in a language other than English. Robert Slater, a senior fellow at the American Councils for International Education, said there had been a “growth explosion” over the last several years of dual-language immersion programs, including in Spanish, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.
Though exact numbers are difficult to come by, Mr. Slater estimated there were now at least 3,000 such programs in the United States, up from an estimated 2,000 cited in a 2017 study published by the RAND Corporation, and a significant upsurge from about 260 cited by the Department of Education in 2000.
Some of the schools exist not only to broaden horizons, but to shore up languages and cultures. In Hogansburg, N.Y., near the Canadian border, students at Akwesasne Freedom School started their school year last week speaking Mohawk. In Hawaii, a State Supreme Court ruling last week could force more school districts to expand the state’s existing network of Hawaiian-language immersion programs.
Louisiana French is the legacy of early settlers and later arrivals, among them the Cajuns, 18th-century exiles from eastern Canada. But the language was nearly smothered in the 20th century by laws and customs that encouraged assimilation with the Anglophone world.
Read the full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/louisiana-french-dual-language.html
Source: New York Times
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Title: First Day of Middle School French
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From http://www.thefrenchcorner.net
In this blog post, middle school French teacher Samantha Decker describes what she does on the first day of the school year with her students: http://www.thefrenchcorner.net/2019/08/the-first-day-of-school.html
Source: The French Corner
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Title: Tour Over Thirty Spanish Classrooms
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Elisabeth from the Spanish Mama blog has curated photos of over thirty Spanish classrooms, so that you can get ideas for classroom decorations, furniture layout, and more: https://spanishmama.com/spanish-classrooms-tour/
Source: Spanish Mama
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Title: Poetry Unit in Spanish
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From https://www.profe-de-espanol.de
Jennifer Niño shares a collection of poetry-based activities that she and a colleague created in this Spanish-language post: https://www.profe-de-espanol.de/2019/07/25/viaje-poesia/
Source: profe-de-español
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Title: Student Contests by the New York Times
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Student contests are a good opportunity for your students to write and speak for an authentic audience. Here is a calendar of the ten planned contests by the New York Times in the upcoming year, open to students 13 years and older: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/learning/our-2019-20-student-contest-calendar.html
Source: New York Times
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Title: Article: Primary Language Support in General Education Classrooms
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Valentina Gonzalez explains why primary language support is important for students who are still learning the language of classroom content instruction. She writes,
"Primary language support benefits English learners because it promotes an assets-based stance. PLS views students from a strengths-based lens and makes us ask, 'What literacy do students come to us already having? How can we use their primary literacy in order to grow literacy in a new language?'
"PLS also lives under the premise that language is tied to a student’s identity. And if we believe that, then we honor students’ identities by making room for all of their native languages. We make connections to their linguistic repertoire and teach them how to do the same."
Read her full article to get ideas for using primary language support in your classroom: https://seidlitzblog.org/2019/07/10/primary-language-support-in-general-education-classrooms/#more-170
Source: Seidlitz Education
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