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Title: 3 Strategies to Stay Comprehensible Even Behind the Screen
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This blog post provides three useful strategies to enhance comprehensibility in remote instructional contexts. These tips, including using scaffolds to support slides and interactive digital platforms, are applicable for learners of all proficiency levels across domains.
Source: Claudia Elliott
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Title: Introduction to Proficiency
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This activity invites learners to consider their own proficiency levels and draws them to make connections between language proficiency and proficiency in other activities in the surrounding world. While it can be used at any level, it was designed with beginning users in mind.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify their own (ACTFL) proficiency level
- Set a long-term language proficiency goal for themselves
Mode(s): Interpretive, Interpersonal
Materials: language proficiency overview video, handout
Procedure:
- Introduce learners to the idea of language proficiency using this overview video. Pause the video when the LinguaFolio graphic is shared (around 1:11) so that the learners can do a quick self-evaluation of where they are in their language study. Ask learners what they selected and why. Next, ask them to document what proficiency level they would like to ultimately achieve.
- Next, provide learners with the handout. In groups of 3-4, they will use the handout to consider the brief descriptions of each language proficiency level and to write their own descriptions for a different activity of their choice (e.g., playing a specific sport, developing skill in a performance art).
- On the same handout, learners will document the effort that one must undertake to progress from one level to the next level of the activity they chose in Step 2.
- Next, as a class, have learners consider what they think language learning will entail. The teacher will guide the discussion and supplement language strategies when appropriate.
- Finally, learners will revisit the long-term goal they documented in Step 1. On an exit ticket, they will share their goal with the teacher and will write a brief overview of how they intend to achieve the goal.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Call for Proposals: Innovative Practices and Pedagogies in Teaching International Development Studies
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The School for Global and International Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington will have a two-day virtual workshop from June 7-8, 2021. Major themes covered include online learning, reflexive practices in the classroom, the possibilities of virtual exchanges, decolonizing pedagogy, and employing partnerships with development organizations in the classroom.
Source: Indiana University
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Title: 12 Ideas for Amplified Forms of Digital Storytelling
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From: http://langwitches.org/blog/2019/07/07/12-ideas-for-amplified-forms-of-digital-storytelling/
This article shares twelve ideas and tools that can support attractive digital storytelling. The ideas not only have the potential to enhance learners' technological literacy, but, more importantly, have the potential to develop their communicative competence.
Visit: http://langwitches.org/blog/2019/07/07/12-ideas-for-amplified-forms-of-digital-storytelling/
Source: Langwitches
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Title: The Amazing Benefits of Being Bilingual
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From: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160811-the-amazing-benefits-of-being-bilingual
This BBC article discusses the many benefits of being bilingual, including how people who speak multiple languages tend to have more flexible minds than their monolingual peers. The article also discusses the challenges of language learning, including the imminent extinction of many languages in the world.
Visit: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160811-the-amazing-benefits-of-being-bilingual
Source: BBC
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Title: InterCom: February 1, 2021
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In February, we will continue to discuss the basics of language learning. Specifically, we are devoting this month to a discussion of language proficiency. To kick us off, we are providing learners with an introduction to proficiency. The resources we cover this week are especially useful for new language learners and self-directed language learners.
There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:
- Join our InterCom Live! session. We connect on Facebook every Monday at 11:00 am Pacific. To join us, open CASLS's Facebook page at the designated time. Can't make it? The InterCom Live! events are always recorded, and you can find them on our Facebook page.
- Check out the Activity of the Week. This week, learners consider language proficiency, connect language proficiency to development in other domains, and think about long-term goals for learning.
- There are multiple models of language proficiency. This article provides the historical context of some of these models as well as a discussion related to assessment.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Spring 2021 Professional Development Webinar Series
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From: https://cercll.arizona.edu/blog/spring21webinars/
The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona is providing a series of professional development webinars for spring 2021. Topics covered include multimodalities and intercultural communication in the L2 classroom. Four different sessions will be offered from March to May 2021, and registration is currently open.
Visit: https://cercll.arizona.edu/blog/spring21webinars/
Source: The University of Arizona (CERCLL)
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Title: Distance Learning Resources for Dual Language Learners
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From: https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/coronavirus-resources-for-dual-language-learners/
Early Edge California shares a list of online resources for dual language learners. Activities include digital and analog materials that are appropriate for various age groups.
Visit: https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/coronavirus-resources-for-dual-language-learners/
Source: Early Edge California
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Title: Free Digital Download for Scaffolded Writing Assessment
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From: https://srahuff.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/scaffolded-writing-assessments/
Good assessment practices empower both learners to reflect on their progress and instructors to reflect on their teaching. This resource provides a scafolded writing assessment tool that is centered on learners' abilities to demonstrate their strengths. The provided assessment template can be downloaded and adapted.
Visit: https://srahuff.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/scaffolded-writing-assessments/
Source: MeaningfulEd
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Title: CARLA Summer Institute
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From: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2021/schedule.html
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) is offering summer 2021 professional development workshops for language educators. CARLA has a long history of providing quality workshops, and CASLS is proud to be featured as one of the workshops, a workshop related to successful portfolio implementation in world language classrooms. For registration and program details, please visit the link.
Visit: https://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2021/schedule.html
Source: The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
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