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Title: Call and Response Attention Prompts for Spanish Classes
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¿Qué te pasa calabaza? ¡Nada, nada, limonada! These sorts of call-and-response phrases can be used to get the class's attention, for example when they've been working on a small group activity and need to re-orient as a whole class. Here's a nice list of several dozen phrases and responses that you can use in your Spanish class, along with suggestions for coming up with more: https://spanishmama.com/hola-hola-coca-cola-spanish-call-and-responses/
Source: Spanish Mama
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Title: Article: Heterogeneity in English Learners
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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2019/08/a_one-size-fits-all_approach_t.html
A 'One-Size-Fits-All' Approach to English-Learner Education Won't Work. Here's Why
by Corey Mitchell
August 15, 2019
While English-language learners generally lag behind their peers in academic achievement, lumping the students into one group can limit schools' ability to identify their individual strengths and struggles.
Whether they're a newcomer to the United States, a longterm ELL struggling with academic English, or a student who is somewhere in-between, English-learners have diverse academic and linguistic needs—and a new study argues that there are vast differences in what they need and how they perform in school.
Using longitudinal data from a large, urban California school district, the research found that newcomer English-learners and reclassified English-learners take just as many, if not more, advanced academic courses than their native English-speaking peers.
Conversely, the data reveals, longer-term English-learners take fewer advanced academic courses.
Access the full research article at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0162373719867087
Source: Education Week
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Title: Back to School Activities for the EFL/ESL Classroom
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From https://hongkongtesol.com
Here are five back to school activities that help to build classroom community, incorporate pre-assessment, and foster student reflection and metacognition: https://hongkongtesol.com
Source: English for Asia
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Title: New York Summer Schools Help Prevent "Summer Slide" for English Learners
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These free New York summer schools for English learners are in demand
by Reema Amin
August 20, 2019
At home, fifth-grader Aileen Shao usually speaks Mandarin with her family. So when she heads to the hallways of P.S. 1 in Brooklyn for summer school, she helps her classmates connect to one another.
...Shao is among the roughly 7,500 New York City children who attended free summer programs that are designed to help multilingual students — children who are learning English as a new language — build skills in core subjects, such as math, while developing their language skills. Depending on the program, there’s also lighter summer fare, such as field trips and cooking classes.
Students can lose their grasp of a new language over the summer because they might only be speaking it in a limited capacity, if at all, educators say. There’s not a lot of research around summer learning loss among English language learners, but one 2012 study found that students from non-English speaking homes experienced a bigger loss of English vocabulary while school was out compared to students from homes where English is spoken.
Read the full article at https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2019/08/20/these-free-new-york-summer-schools-for-english-learners-are-in-demand/
Source: Chalkbeat
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Title: Website: Real English for Gamers
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From https://realenglishforgamers.com/
This website provides models, examples, walkthroughs for learning English for, and from, video games. It highlights YouTube videos from well-known gamers and points English learners in the direction of resources for the games in which they are interested. The site also includes practice activities, its own YouTube channel, and function-based lessons directly related to playing video games.
See more examples at https://realenglishforgamers.com/examples/
Source: Real English for Gamers
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Title: Podcast: Talkin' L2 with BVP
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We've highlighted Bill VanPatten's podcast Tea with BVP in the past (https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/20191). The podcast has since changed names to Talkin' L2 with BVP, and it's back for another season starting September 11 at 6 PM Eastern Time.
Follow this podcast at https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/20191
Source: Talkin' L2 with BVP
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Title: "Mientes con Todos los Dientes": Guessing Game
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In this language-rich game, the teacher has a collection of true facts about one student, but four students are seated in front of the class claiming that these facts are true about them. The teacher asks increasingly detailed questions (e.g. "How old is your pet cat Snowball?" and eventually the rest of the class tries to guess who is telling the truth.
Read a full description of this game at https://senorachase.com/2019/08/10/mientes-con-todos-los-dientes-a-lying-game/
Source: Señora Chase
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Title: Vocabulary Games
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From https://englishteaching101.com
Here is a big collection of game ideas, mostly useful for reviewing vocabulary: https://englishteaching101.com/vocabulary-games-for-kids/
Source: English Teaching 101
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Title: Crosstalk Method for Language Exchanges
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From https://www.fluentin3months.com/crosstalk/
Language exchanges are agreements between people who speak different languages to meet and learn from each other. Often in language exchanges, both people will speak in one language for a certain amount of time, and then they will switch to the other language. However, the crosstalk method involves each person speaking his/her first language, in the same conversation. This way both people practice their listening skills, but don't have to produce in the target language.
Read Pablo Román's description of this approach here: https://www.fluentin3months.com/crosstalk/
Source: Fluent in 3 Months
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Title: Introduction to the Movie Talk Technique
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Movie Talk is an activity that is popular among teachers using the TPRS/CI approach, but it is a helpful technique for any teacher looking for new ways to provide comprehensible input to learners. In this blog post, Elisabeth of Spanish Mama introduces the technique to those who may be unfamiliar with it: https://spanishmama.com/movie-talk-in-spanish-class/
Source: Spanish Mama
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