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Title: 7 Ways to Improve Your Graphic Game: Creating Classroom Materials
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From: http://blog.tesol.org/7-ways-to-improve-your-graphic-game-creating-classroom-materials/
This blog post is very useful for teachers who are looking for resources to use legal and high-quality images. The author provides links to eight websites that teachers can use to get stock photos, icons, and design applications. Some of the resources listed are free to use, while others have a free and a paid version.
Visit: http://blog.tesol.org/7-ways-to-improve-your-graphic-game-creating-classroom-materials/
Source: TESOL Blog, Brent Warner
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Title: Bilingual and Dual-Language Teacher Preparation Programs
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From: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2022/02/12/bilingual-and-dual-language-teacher-preparation-programs
Language magazine shares information on some of the best graduate and undergraduate bilingual and dual-teacher preparation programs in the US. It includes an adequate list of universities, with important information like program format, length, specialization, and many more. Students who wish to pursue a career in language teaching or language instructors who wish to further their knowledge and skills can use this as a quick guide to see what some of their options are, and easily find which program best suits their needs.
Visit: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2022/02/12/bilingual-and-dual-language-teacher-preparation-programs
Source: Language Magazine
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Title: Strategies For Encouraging Students To Make Multiple “Touches” On The Same Text
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This blog post talks about the “Multiple Touch” strategy, a language learning strategy used to help improve reading comprehension. It presents a step-by-step guide on how the strategy can be applied in the classroom and how students can benefit from it. Language instructors can use this as inspiration for classroom activities designed to improve students’ reading comprehension skills.
Source: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
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Title: We Don’t Talk About Bruno (No Se Habla De Bruno)
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From: https://www.profedeele.es/actividad/cancion/no-se-habla-de-bruno-encanto/
This blog post offers 11 different online activities in Spanish about the movie Encanto and one of the movie’s songs, We Don’t Talk About Bruno. The activities include recall of facts from the movie and song, completing relationship diagrams or family trees for the family Madrigal, doing Karaoke to the song using the app Lyricstraining, and using TikTok to cover or duet the song or create dances to it. This resource would be useful for novice high or intermediate low Spanish learners, and for teachers looking to incorporate digital tools and the movie Encanto into lessons.
Visit: https://www.profedeele.es/actividad/cancion/no-se-habla-de-bruno-encanto/
Source: Profe de Ele, Aitor Pisos and Enara Villán Mirás
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Title: A Review of Yostuba&! What Makes the Undeniably Popular Slice-of-Life Manga よつばと So Special?
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From: https://www.tofugu.com/reviews/yotsubato/
This blog post details how the manga series Yotsuba&! is an accessible series for learners of Japanese who want to start to read materials originally written for L1 Japanese speakers. The author describes how the series’ characteristics, including its real-world setting, engaging story, and short chapters, make it accessible for learners of Japanese. Additionally, the illustrations in the series help give context clues to what is happening in the action or dialogue, offering visual support for the reader. This blog post would be useful for Japanese learners at the low intermediate or higher level who are looking for ideas of what to read outside of textbooks or other standardized learning texts.
Visit: https://www.tofugu.com/reviews/yotsubato/
Source: Tofugu, Ian J. Battaglia
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Title: Courageous Dialogues and Affinity Spaces with Vicky Wang
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From: https://wlclassroom.com/2022/02/13/ep28/
This podcast episode features a discussion with Vicky Wang about the initiative she helped to start entitled Courageous Dialogues with Chinese Educators. This initiative brings heritage Chinese teachers and non-heritage Chinese language and culture teachers together to re-examine Chinese curricula, to talk about anti-Asian sentiment, actions or microaggressions and their effects on teachers and learners, and to work towards creating more equitable and inclusive Chinese language learning environments. This podcast would be a useful resource for any Chinese language educator looking to work towards goals of equity and inclusion.
Visit: https://wlclassroom.com/2022/02/13/ep28/
Source: World Language Classroom, Joshua Cabral
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Title: Yask: An App for Collaborative Feedback
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From: https://fltmag.com/yask-collaborative-feedback/
Yask is a mobile app that allows learners to receive feedback on their speaking and writing, as well as give feedback to others in languages that they speak. The app allows Yask has three types of writing activities (translate sentences, answer questions, and write freely) and three types of speaking activities (read out loud, answer questions, speak freely), and is available in a variety of languages. It is free, with the option of paying for a premium account. It would be a useful resource for learners who want to participate in a community of language learners and receive feedback in a low stress environment.
Visit: https://fltmag.com/yask-collaborative-feedback/
Source: The FLT Mag, Shannon Donnally Quinn
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Title: Using Corpora with Learners (with Paul Thompson)
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In this podcast episode, Paul Thompson gives advice to teachers on how to use corpora (online databases of texts in the target language) with learners. The benefits of using corpora with learners are discussed, as well as what teachers and learners need to know about corpora like COCA (The Corpus of Contemporary American English) to be able to use them effectively. The host also discusses his favorite corpus-based activities which teachers can use with learners. This resource would be useful for teachers looking for ideas on how to incorporate copora into learning activities.
Source: TEFL Training Institute
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Title: InterCom: March 7, 2022
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Join us this week as we begin a 4-week series about listening strategies. This will include strategies for before, during and after listening that aim to help learners increase their understanding of what they hear. This week we take a look at how learners can decipher unfamiliar sounds by reading along with a transcript while listening.
Thank you to CASLS Graduate Intern, Anna Krinitsyna, for her role in the creation of this week’s video.
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 activity helps learners deepen their understanding of sounds in the target language that are unfamiliar, seem hard to pronounce, or are very different than sounds in their L1 by reading along while listening to an audio or video clip.
- Check out this blog post about strategies for listening to podcasts in the target language. It provides 7 steps for listening (including reading the transcript), and tips on how to make listening to podcasts in the target language a part of one’s day to day life.
Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.
Source: CASLS
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Title: Books in French Culture
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From: https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/french-reading
This blog post contains an 8-minute video lesson in French about the role that books and reading play in French culture. It covers how one might talk about books and reading, how to find books in stores or libraries, gives key vocabulary and phrases related to books and reading, and provides links to other resources, such as French literary prizes and book publishers. The lesson is given in French so that learners can practice listening skills. This resource would be useful for learners or teachers interested in an overview of book and reading culture in France.
Visit: https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/french-reading
Source: Comme Une Française
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