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Title: Book: Rodnaya rech', Introductory Textbook for Russian Heritage Learners
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Rodnaya rech', Introductory Textbook for Russian Heritage Learners
By Irina Y. Dubinina and Olesya Kisselev
Published by Georgetown University Press
Rodnaya rech', an introductory textbook for heritage learners, addresses the unique needs of students who have at least Intermediate-level listening and speaking skills on the ACTFL scale but who have underdeveloped or nonexistent literacy skills. With an emphasis on conceptual understanding of vocabulary and grammar, Rodnaya rech' builds students' literacy skills and teaches them to strategically use the linguistic intuition they have gained as heritage speakers while strengthening all four skill areas.
With a textbook designed for in-class work and an electronic workbook containing all homework activities and texts for reading comprehension, Rodnaya rech' can be used as the main course material either in an intensive one-semester class or at a more measured pace over two semesters. This book is flexible enough to be used in specialized heritage or in mixed classes. It can also support independent study and learning in less formal settings, such as community schools.
Visit the publisher's website at: http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/rodnaya-rech-introductory-course-heritage-learners-russian-student-bundle
Source: Georgetown University Press
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Title: Blog: Another Approach to Creating Search Challenges for Students
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From: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/09/another-approach-to-creating-search.html
Author Richard Byrne shares his strategy that uses pictures to tell as story and have students answer some questions based on the story and picture. This will be useful for language teachers looking to work with a variety of modalities in one activity.
Read the entire post at: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/09/another-approach-to-creating-search.html
Source: Free Technology for Teachers
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Title: Podcast: What in the World?
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From: https://jahdai.podbean.com/
The What in the world? language podcast has a loose focus on all things language and culture. Anything from best practices, instructional styles, equity, white privilege and urban education, school policy, intersectionality, Heritage learners, ASL, etc.
Listen to the latest episodes at https://jahdai.podbean.com/
Source: What in the World?
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Title: Three Lessons for Teachers from Grant Wiggins
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From: https://jaymctighe.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Three-Lessons-from-Grant-Wiggins-1-2.pdf
We, at CASLS, find that teachers who use a backwards design process for curriculum design have positive results integrating standards, objectives, assessments, and activities. The backwards design process is based heavily on the work of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. In this short essay, Jay McTighe summarizes three lessons that the late Grant Wiggins emphasized: Plan Backward from Authentic Performance, Feedback is Key to Successful Learning and Performance, and Empathize with the Learner.
Read the essay at: https://jaymctighe.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Three-Lessons-from-Grant-Wiggins-1-2.pdf
Source: Jay McTighe
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Title: The Language of Service Encounters
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The Language of Service Encounters: A Pragmatic-Discursive Approach
By J. César Félix-Brasdefer
Published by Cambridge University Press
Service encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in supermarkets, convenience stores, or markets; we purchase merchandise in department stores; or we request information at a visitor information center. This book offers a comprehensive account of service encounters in commercial and non-commercial settings. Grounded in naturally occurring face-to-face interactions and drawing on a pragmatic-discursive approach, J. César Félix-Brasdefer sets out a framework for the analysis of transactional and relational talk in various contexts in the United States and Mexico. This book investigates cross-cultural and intra-lingual pragmatic variation during the negotiation of service. The author provides a broad review of research on service encounters to date, and analyzes characteristics of sales transactions, such as participants' roles, pragmatic and discourse functions of relational talk and address forms, the realization of politeness, and changes in alignment from transactional to relational talk.
Visit the publisher's website at: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/language-service-encounters-pragmatic-discursive-approach
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Helping Students Develop Their Body Language
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Fran Austin writes, "Body language has long been seen by communications specialists as a key component of the way we interact with others, with researchers claiming that anything between 50% and 80% of all communication happens through non-verbal communication.
"...So why is it that body language has such a low profile in the ELT world? It could be that we take fore-granted that body language is a transferable skill from the learners L1, but it certainly is not, though their are some shared similarities across cultures."
Read the full article, which has tips for teachers to gain awareness of their own body language and for students to begin studying body language, here: https://www.oxfordtefl.com/blog/7-tips-for-helping-students-develop-their-body-language-in-the-elt-classroom
These tips are applicable to teachers of any language.
See the full post at: https://www.oxfordtefl.com/blog/7-tips-for-helping-students-develop-their-body-language-in-the-elt-classroom
Source: Oxford TEFL
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Title: Games4ESL YouTube Channel
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From: https://www.lindsaydoeslanguages.com/12-best-korean-youtube-channels-to-help-you-learn-korean/
On the Games4ESL YouTube Channel, you can access video-based games for use with English learners.
The channel is available at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SoAIo4z8rfVnfhMpKfC4g
Source: YouTube
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Title: The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective Cambridge University Press
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The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective
By Michael Sharwood Smith & John Truscott
Published by Cambridge University Press
Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds. The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning, metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality, crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing, as well as for those working in related areas of psychology, neurology and cognitive science.
1. Introduction; Part I. The Framework: 2. The language module: architecture and representations; 3. Processing in the language module; 4. Growth of the language module: acquisition by processing; 5. Beyond the language module; Part II. Applying the Framework: 6. The bilingual mind introduced; 7. The growth of a second language; 8. Consciousness and attention; 9. The role of consciousness in language growth; 10. Issues in SLA revisited; 11. Conclusion; References.
Source: Cambridge University Press
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Title: Blog: Google Creates “Latino Trailblazers” Interactive
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From: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/09/25/google-creates-latino-trailblazers-interactive/
Follow the link from this blog to see the Latino Trailblazers interactive site that Google has created on Google Earth for Hispanic Heritage Month. This offers learners the opportunity to explore a number of relevant components during Hispanic Heritage Month and beyond.
Find the link at: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/09/25/google-creates-latino-trailblazers-interactive/
Source: Larry Ferrlazzo’s Websites of the Day
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Title: Call for Papers: Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting
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From: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers
The Middle East Studies Association calls for submissions from members for its 54th annual meeting, October 10-13, 2020, in Washington, DC.
The 2020 meeting does not have a theme. MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.
Please submit papers by February 14, 2020.
View the full call for papers at https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers
Source: Middle East Studies Association
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