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World Language Assessment: Get in the Mode! supports and empowers world language educators to improve student proficiency through a variety of assessment strategies. Focusing on the three modes of communication (interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal), this resource provides a framework of formative, interim, and summative assessments for use at any grade level.

Course Description Spanish for Bilingual Students is an intermediate course designed principally for heritage learners, but which includes other students interested  in specific content areas, such as US Latino immigration, identity, ethnicity, education and representation in the media. Linguistic goals include vocabulary acquisition, improvement in writing, and enhancement of formal communicative skills.

The Teaching Foreign Languages workshop will help K-12 foreign language teachers improve their practice by making connections between the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning and current research in foreign language education. Workshop components include eight lively half-hour video programs with leading researchers and practicing teachers discussing how the standards play out in day-to-day classroom situations, a workshop guide available online and in print, and interactive activities on the Web.

This site, aimed at Spanish language learners, educators, and researchers, provides an online corpus of videos of second language and heritage language learners of Spanish during oral interviews covering a variety of topics.  These particular videos are derived from the Spanish Proficiency Training & Learner Corpus, a website that comprises over 320 videos of Spanish language learners.  The present website provides supplemental activities to help viewers investigate learners' language and proficiency levels in connection with Lingüística aplicada:  adquisición del español como segunda lengua (Koike & Klee, 2003), a textbook on Spanish applied linguistics.

Join over 200 primary and secondary level projects designed and facilitated by teachers and students. In addition to connecting students' learning with local and global issues and meeting specific curriculum needs, every iEARN project must answer the question, "How will this project improve the quality of life on the planet?" This vision and purpose is the glue that holds iEARN together, enabling participants to become global citizens who make a difference by collaborating with their peers around the world.

Spanish Class Project on using the subjunctive tense. Students create a song parody to Thrift Shop and made a music video.  Comments reveal that people from all over watched and even learned from it.   I've been a WL teacher for 10 years and there is so much room for creativity and expression using the target language.   YouTube makes sharing with a global audience possible.    I could watch these videos all day long!

Spanish Class Project on using the subjunctive tense. Students create a song parody to Thrift Shop and made a music video.  Comments reveal that people from all over watched and even learned from it.   I've been a WL teacher for 10 years and there is so much room for creativity and expression using the target language.   YouTube makes sharing with a global audience possible.    I could watch these videos all day long!

How to search news in a foreign language using LexisNexis

Resources for thematic and grammatical units.

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