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Learn to speak Spanish in Mexico at SIPuebla with expert guidance! We are one among the Spanish Immersion Schools but get distinguished for our unique learning format. Learn Spanish in Mexico with us within a few weeks. Our Spanish Immersion School customizes the learning modules to fit the requirements of the learners. We appoint experienced and native Spanish speaking teachers at our center! Call us for a free consultation Office (800) 554-2951

The study of foreign languages and literature provides valuable experience and a potential edge for future career development for our students. Scientists and engineers function in a global market: they rely on primary sources published in other languages, attend international consortia, and often find themselves interacting across national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Government and industry often give preference to job applicants who are proficient in a foreign language. MIT students are encouraged to work and study abroad in conjunction with university, private, and public organizations. The faculty of the FL&L Section, the language coordinators, and the Undergraduate Academic Administrator can provide assistance in choosing an appropriate program and granting transfer credit from overseas or domestic programs. MIT provides a unique perspective on foreign languages because of the opportunities available to integrate the study of natural languages with the latest technological advances in multimedia and interactive learning. FL&L-affiliated faculty are exploring and implementing methods in which multimedia technology can be used to make learning a foreign language a more authentic experience.

This Advanced Spanish Language and Culture course is a rigorous course taught exclusively in Spanish that requires students to improve their proficiency across the three modes of communication:  Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational.  The course focuses on the integration of authentic resources including online print, audio, and audiovisual resources, as well as traditional print resources that include literature, essays, and magazine and newspaper articles with the goal of providing a rich, diverse learning experience. Students communicate using rich, advanced vocabulary and linguistic structures as they build proficiency in all modes of communication toward the advanced level.  Class is conducted completely in Spanish and includes frequent writing and integration of skills with a rigorous review of grammatical structures. Advanced organizational and analytical strategies are taught. An array of resources is used as necessary to facilitate the learning process.

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!

Learn and practice languages for free!  Classroom appropriate

Our Spanish podcast and Spanish lessons published on our website contain hundreds of learning lessons from beginning to intermediate to advanced Spanish. Listen and most importantly read our interactive transcripts on our website and you will be surprised to discover that you know more Spanish than you think

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.

The art of storytelling is still a crucial component in many school library programs. By tapping intothis expansive tradition and integrating web 2.0 digital story technologies, librarians are able tocollaborate with English as a Second Language Teachers in order to design student-centered digitalstory projects. This transformative use of technology within the framework of social constructionismmotivates language students to focus on the contextual use of language rather than basic vocabularydevelopment. The case for digital storytelling is built on an intersection of secondary languageacquisition theory, language learning pedagogical understandings and instructional strategies

Kahoot is a free and easy to use site in which you can create quizzes, surveys, polls to be used interactively in class.   Students can design their own.   Game-based learning and students can use their mobile devices to participate.   Change the way you assess in real time!

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.

Website to practice French, German, Spanish, English, Portugese, Italian using popular songs and lyrics!

PBL in Spanish class

publishing

Create published books - could be a great project for the Spanish and Italian students to create books for younger students in the target language.

Preterite tense of the following irregular verbs: decir, traer, conducir, producir and traducir.

I put some of my most useful lesson plans together in a web site, in case that Italian teachers around the world are looking for ideas for their classes.  Some activities are based on exercises from textbooks, some others are created to enlarge a topic that's been taught in class.  Although most of the activities are for Italian classes, some might be applied to other foreign languages.  Also, I will be posting news and more activities in the section "My posts".  I will be happy to include helpful suggestions coming from foreign language teachers.  If you'd like to share a useful activity, contact me and I will gladly publish it

Views, Articles, Ideas on World Languages

Steven Pinker - Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why language is such a fundamental part of social relationships, human biology, and human evolution. Finally, Pinker touches on the wide variety of applications for linguistics, from improving how we teach reading and writing to how we interpret law, politics, and literature.

Blog and resources for WL teachers looking to go beyond the textbook