Sancocho Didáctico Photocopiable resources for Spanish teachers A potpourri of teacher-tested and student approved activities for the language classroom. Worksheets including graphic organizers, rubric templates and projects. (57 pages)

Spanish Pronunciation

The WWW has caused the biggest change in education and learning since the advent of the printed book a little over 500 years ago

I want you to guess at meanings. Do not look up words in a dictionary

Wikis, blogs/photoblogs and podcasts (and its video incarnation, the vodcast) carry the potential of complementing, improving and adding new collaborative dimensions to the many Web-based

  Group conversations are better than ever

from your phone

thereby enabling a new kind of critical reading—almost a new form of literacy—that invites the reader to join in the consideration of what information is reliable and/or important

In their everyday lives, individuals do not have a teacher at their side to direct them in their acquisition of new information. One of the roles that we need to perform as educators, then, is to teach students to find and learn information on their own or in concert with their colleagues. The online environment fosters self-motivated education. Students direct their own use of Internet links, search engines, discussion boards, chat, e-mail, and other media. While such resources cannot guarantee student initiative, they establish a framework that gives precedence to the autonomy of the learner.

The results of this study are compared to those of an earlier investigation (Pica & Doughty, 1985a)

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