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Title: Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
Body: From http://a4esl.org Self-study quizzes are in html-only format, so no special plug-ins are required. Groupings include the following: # Grammar Quizzes # Learn about Places While Answering Grammar Questions # Homonyms # Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang # Scrambled Words # Vocabulary Quiz Quizzes # Holidays, Trivia and Misc. The quizzes are available at http://a4esl.org/q/h . The Activities for ESL Students website has many other resources, including exercises and puzzles. This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. Access the Activities for ESL Students website at http://a4esl.org .
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Title: Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
Body: From http://a4esl.org Self-study quizzes are in html-only format, so no special plug-ins are required. Groupings include the following: # Grammar Quizzes # Learn about Places While Answering Grammar Questions # Homonyms # Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang # Scrambled Words # Vocabulary Quiz Quizzes # Holidays, Trivia and Misc. The quizzes are available at http://a4esl.org/q/h . The Activities for ESL Students website has many other resources, including exercises and puzzles. This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. Access the Activities for ESL Students website at http://a4esl.org .
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Title: Writing Practice Ideas
Body: Some writing activities that my students have enjoyed: a. Alien Planet: Pretend that an Alien has spent a month with you here on Earth and he/she invites you to visit his/her planet. (Talk about how you got there, what they wear, what they eat, where they live, what they do in their free time) This essay can be organized like a regular essay so that they have a beginning, middle and end.... b. Create a new hotel, resort, or fun center for your home town. You must include: a drawing of the inside, a drawing of the outside, a personal ad looking for employees, describe their hours, dress code, personal skills needed, educational requirements, pay... make up a proposal to "sell" you idea to the county commissioners and the city planners, explain how you will pay for your new place and where it will be and how it will affect the area. b. My kids enjoy writing essays based on a single cell of a cartoon... I have a couple of books with nice ones... for example, one shows two kids filling the trunk of the car with sand at the beach. If you instruct the students to write about what happens after the scene or what happened up to that point, then they have to use their skills to make up something that fits the picture into the sequence of events. Pickles, J. Re: Different Strategies for Practicing Writing. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 12 Mar 2007).
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Title: Writing Practice Ideas
Body: Some writing activities that my students have enjoyed: a. Alien Planet: Pretend that an Alien has spent a month with you here on Earth and he/she invites you to visit his/her planet. (Talk about how you got there, what they wear, what they eat, where they live, what they do in their free time) This essay can be organized like a regular essay so that they have a beginning, middle and end.... b. Create a new hotel, resort, or fun center for your home town. You must include: a drawing of the inside, a drawing of the outside, a personal ad looking for employees, describe their hours, dress code, personal skills needed, educational requirements, pay... make up a proposal to "sell" you idea to the county commissioners and the city planners, explain how you will pay for your new place and where it will be and how it will affect the area. b. My kids enjoy writing essays based on a single cell of a cartoon... I have a couple of books with nice ones... for example, one shows two kids filling the trunk of the car with sand at the beach. If you instruct the students to write about what happens after the scene or what happened up to that point, then they have to use their skills to make up something that fits the picture into the sequence of events. Pickles, J. Re: Different Strategies for Practicing Writing. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 12 Mar 2007).
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Title: Home Practice Ideas
Body: Three suggestions from FLTEACH users for study materials that students can take home and practice with: --- We're covering commands, physical fitness/wellbeing vocabulary, and body parts. To open the chapter we pick 15 of the vocabulary words from the chapter and make flashcards - Spanish on one side, and a picture on the other (no English). Later we add the command forms, affirmative and negative, to the cards. Eventually we add the body parts necessary to do that activity. When they are finished they have cards that include all facets of the chapter. We use the cards in different ways every so often at the very beginning of class as a warm-up. They seem to like and it shows them how to use flashcards for more than just one particular list of vocab. Henman, B. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 7 Mar 2007). --- My grade 5 Spanish students were having a difficult time with conjugating verbs so we created "verb-olopes" In the envelope (that they take home) are strips of paper and we listed the subject pronouns on them, then we conjugated the verb "to go" together and placed each conjugation with their subject pronoun and then we did -ar verb endings and conjugated 2 -ar verbs together in class and I gave them a formula for doing it infinitive verb minus -ar = stem + ending the -ar endings were placed on blue paper and then on white slips of paper we placed the stem of the verbs to speak and then did the same for the verb to dance. For homework each student is conjugating 5 verbs and will teach those verbs to the other students on Monday. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 8 Mar 2007). --- Why not do a folded book? You take 3-4 sheets of paper, fold them and staple to make a book. If you overlap the pages by the width of your thumb, then staple, you create tabs to find things easier. You can organize it by verb, conjugation group, tense, subject pronoun or anything else you can think of. You may want to have the students write each verb on a separate piece of paper or an index card, then glue it onto the correct page (in case they make a mistake). Encourage the students to illustrate or decorate the pages. It is a good idea to grade these according to a rubric for neatness, accuracy, etc. I would have them make the blank books in class one day, then fill it in at home as a weekend project, doing 3-6 verbs altogether. If you have them leave a few pages blank, they can add to it as the year goes along. Murphy, K. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 13 Mar 2007).
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Title: Home Practice Ideas
Body: Three suggestions from FLTEACH users for study materials that students can take home and practice with: --- We're covering commands, physical fitness/wellbeing vocabulary, and body parts. To open the chapter we pick 15 of the vocabulary words from the chapter and make flashcards - Spanish on one side, and a picture on the other (no English). Later we add the command forms, affirmative and negative, to the cards. Eventually we add the body parts necessary to do that activity. When they are finished they have cards that include all facets of the chapter. We use the cards in different ways every so often at the very beginning of class as a warm-up. They seem to like and it shows them how to use flashcards for more than just one particular list of vocab. Henman, B. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 7 Mar 2007). --- My grade 5 Spanish students were having a difficult time with conjugating verbs so we created "verb-olopes" In the envelope (that they take home) are strips of paper and we listed the subject pronouns on them, then we conjugated the verb "to go" together and placed each conjugation with their subject pronoun and then we did -ar verb endings and conjugated 2 -ar verbs together in class and I gave them a formula for doing it infinitive verb minus -ar = stem + ending the -ar endings were placed on blue paper and then on white slips of paper we placed the stem of the verbs to speak and then did the same for the verb to dance. For homework each student is conjugating 5 verbs and will teach those verbs to the other students on Monday. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 8 Mar 2007). --- Why not do a folded book? You take 3-4 sheets of paper, fold them and staple to make a book. If you overlap the pages by the width of your thumb, then staple, you create tabs to find things easier. You can organize it by verb, conjugation group, tense, subject pronoun or anything else you can think of. You may want to have the students write each verb on a separate piece of paper or an index card, then glue it onto the correct page (in case they make a mistake). Encourage the students to illustrate or decorate the pages. It is a good idea to grade these according to a rubric for neatness, accuracy, etc. I would have them make the blank books in class one day, then fill it in at home as a weekend project, doing 3-6 verbs altogether. If you have them leave a few pages blank, they can add to it as the year goes along. Murphy, K. Re: Conjugation foldable or study tool. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 13 Mar 2007).
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Title: ASL Interpreter Search
Body: Interpreter Search You can search by First Name, Last Name, State or Zip Code. After you get the search results, click on the interpreter's last name to find out their NAD Interpreter Certification Level. If you would like to view a listing of all current NAD certified interpreters, leave all fields blank and click on "Submit." The search tool is available at http://www.nad.org/site/apps/kb/cs/contactsearch.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=871753 .
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Title: ASL Interpreter Search
Body: Interpreter Search You can search by First Name, Last Name, State or Zip Code. After you get the search results, click on the interpreter's last name to find out their NAD Interpreter Certification Level. If you would like to view a listing of all current NAD certified interpreters, leave all fields blank and click on "Submit." The search tool is available at http://www.nad.org/site/apps/kb/cs/contactsearch.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=871753 .
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Title: New Book: Language and Culture Pedagogy
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359959X Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm Author: Karen Risager Publisher: Multilingual Matters Summary: How can we envisage a new language and culture pedagogy that breaks with the tradition of viewing language as part of a closed national universe of culture, history, people and mentality, and begins to see itself as a field operating in a complex and dynamic world characterized by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas? Initially, to understand the field and its current challenges, we must understand its history, and the first part of this book contains a critical analysis of the history of the international field of culture teaching - the first historical treatment of this field ever written. The next part of the book focuses on how we can build a framework for a new transnational language and culture pedagogy that aims at the education of world citizens whose intercultural competence includes critical multilingual and multicultural awareness in a global perspective. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359959X .
Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: New Book: Language and Culture Pedagogy
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359959X Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm Author: Karen Risager Publisher: Multilingual Matters Summary: How can we envisage a new language and culture pedagogy that breaks with the tradition of viewing language as part of a closed national universe of culture, history, people and mentality, and begins to see itself as a field operating in a complex and dynamic world characterized by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas? Initially, to understand the field and its current challenges, we must understand its history, and the first part of this book contains a critical analysis of the history of the international field of culture teaching - the first historical treatment of this field ever written. The next part of the book focuses on how we can build a framework for a new transnational language and culture pedagogy that aims at the education of world citizens whose intercultural competence includes critical multilingual and multicultural awareness in a global perspective. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359959X .
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Title: New Book: Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge
Body: Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge by Judie Haynes Published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Contents: Chapter 1. Key Concepts of Second-Language Acquisition Chapter 2. How Students Acquire Social and Academic Language Chapter 3. Correlating Instruction with the Stages of Second-Language Acquisition Chapter 4. The Newcomers' First Weeks of School Chapter 5. Challenges for ELLs in Content-Area Classes Chapter 6. Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners Chapter 7. Programs for English Language Learners Appendix. Activities for Professional Development Programs Visit the publisher’s site at http://tinyurl.com/2ecwfp .
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Title: New Book: Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge
Body: Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge by Judie Haynes Published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Contents: Chapter 1. Key Concepts of Second-Language Acquisition Chapter 2. How Students Acquire Social and Academic Language Chapter 3. Correlating Instruction with the Stages of Second-Language Acquisition Chapter 4. The Newcomers' First Weeks of School Chapter 5. Challenges for ELLs in Content-Area Classes Chapter 6. Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners Chapter 7. Programs for English Language Learners Appendix. Activities for Professional Development Programs Visit the publisher’s site at http://tinyurl.com/2ecwfp .
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Title: New Issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.net/ijm/004/1/default.htm The table of contents of the Volume 4, Number 1, 2007 issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism is as follows: Francisco Gallardo del Puerto- Is L3 Phonological Competence Affected by the Learner's Level of Bilingualism? ZhaoHong Han and Stephen T. Peverly- Input Processing: A Study of Ab Initio Learners with Multilingual Backgrounds Lotfi Sayahi- Diglossia and Contact-induced Language Change Lies Sercu- Acquiring Multilingualism at School. What Translation Tasks Tell Us about Adolescents' Use of the Multilingual Lexicon Book Reviews Bernhard Kettemann and Hermine Penz- Vielerlei Zungen. Mehrsprachigkeit+Spracherwerb+Pädagogik+Psychologie+Literatur+Medien Daniela Gatto- Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach Abstracts and access to articles available at http://www.multilingual-matters.net/ijm/004/1/default.htm .
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Title: New Issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism
Body: From http://www.multilingual-matters.net/ijm/004/1/default.htm The table of contents of the Volume 4, Number 1, 2007 issue of the International Journal of Multilingualism is as follows: Francisco Gallardo del Puerto- Is L3 Phonological Competence Affected by the Learner's Level of Bilingualism? ZhaoHong Han and Stephen T. Peverly- Input Processing: A Study of Ab Initio Learners with Multilingual Backgrounds Lotfi Sayahi- Diglossia and Contact-induced Language Change Lies Sercu- Acquiring Multilingualism at School. What Translation Tasks Tell Us about Adolescents' Use of the Multilingual Lexicon Book Reviews Bernhard Kettemann and Hermine Penz- Vielerlei Zungen. Mehrsprachigkeit+Spracherwerb+Pädagogik+Psychologie+Literatur+Medien Daniela Gatto- Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach Abstracts and access to articles available at http://www.multilingual-matters.net/ijm/004/1/default.htm .
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Title: Call for Papers: Central States Conference 2008
Body: From http://centralstates.cc Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages March 6-8, 2008 Dearborn, Michigan We are looking for sessions and workshops that expand on our theme, "Turning Today's Students Into Tomorrow's Stars" and also for proposals from: * teachers of Latin and less commonly taught languages * ESL teachers * AP, IB, heritage language teachers * TPRS teachers * teachers who focus on literacy Submission deadline: April 15, 2007. Online submissions at http://www.onlinetrain.com/csc-prop .
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Title: Call for Papers: Central States Conference 2008
Body: From http://centralstates.cc Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages March 6-8, 2008 Dearborn, Michigan We are looking for sessions and workshops that expand on our theme, "Turning Today's Students Into Tomorrow's Stars" and also for proposals from: * teachers of Latin and less commonly taught languages * ESL teachers * AP, IB, heritage language teachers * TPRS teachers * teachers who focus on literacy Submission deadline: April 15, 2007. Online submissions at http://www.onlinetrain.com/csc-prop .
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Title: Call for Papers: Asian EFL Journal
Body: The Asian EFL Journal is conducting a call for papers for book reviews of recently published (within the last three years) professional books, textbooks, and course materials dealing with theory or practice in the fields of teaching English as a second or foreign language, acquisition, assessment, linguistics, and related disciplines. Submissions information available at http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/submissions_journal.php .
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Title: Call for Papers: Asian EFL Journal
Body: The Asian EFL Journal is conducting a call for papers for book reviews of recently published (within the last three years) professional books, textbooks, and course materials dealing with theory or practice in the fields of teaching English as a second or foreign language, acquisition, assessment, linguistics, and related disciplines. Submissions information available at http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/submissions_journal.php .
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Title: Japan Association for Language Teaching CALL Conference
Body: From http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2007 JALTCALL 2007 Waseda University, Tokyo June 1-3, 2007 The theme of the JALTCALL 2007 Conference is "CALL: Integration or Disintegration?". Presentations may include the following areas: - Description of projects including CALL as an integrated course component - Description of projects implementing multiple modes of technology - Innovative ways of integrating CALL in and out of the classroom - Discussion of the future direction of CALL as a encompassing field - New strands of technology use in language learning environments More information available at http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2007 .
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Title: Japan Association for Language Teaching CALL Conference
Body: From http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2007 JALTCALL 2007 Waseda University, Tokyo June 1-3, 2007 The theme of the JALTCALL 2007 Conference is "CALL: Integration or Disintegration?". Presentations may include the following areas: - Description of projects including CALL as an integrated course component - Description of projects implementing multiple modes of technology - Innovative ways of integrating CALL in and out of the classroom - Discussion of the future direction of CALL as a encompassing field - New strands of technology use in language learning environments More information available at http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2007 .
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