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This website documents tons of free digital resources in multiple languages - ebooks, videos, audio, readings, cultural items...

Language life at UC Berkeley and beyond. Relfections on meaning, language use, cultural means of expression, status of languages, and more.

Driving Question: How can student voice and choice enrich language learning? Recent articles in publications like The Atlantic and The Hill highlight what many describe as a dismal state of language learning in the United States. Both pieces speak to the largely ineffective outcomes of language study, since so few language learners achieve a meaningful level of proficiency, even after years of study. Contributing to the state of language discussion, a recent ACTFL study shows that fewer students are pursuing language study. What seems like a lack of serious commitment to improve outcomes in the U.S. also reflects a long-standing cultural attitude that language learning isn't a worthwhile endeavor.

"Building reading competence seems to be a bit more challenging these days. Maybe it's just me, but students seem quite reluctant or incapable of guessing while reading. We have to provide a comfortable environment to encourage guessing. Moreover, teachers need to find ways of attracting students to reading of any kind-for information [see http://flava2011.wikispaces.com%5D and for pleasure. I feel it's somehow related to our testing culture that demands 'the right answer.' So how can we build reading? -By following what good parents do with children as they grow. Read children's books to your students-in class or in a reading circle on the floor in the library. Let students read for fun without an assignment attached. Or, read with a fun assignment. Read song lyrics and use them for a variety of reading steps: pick out words you can guess, pick out verbs that look similar to ones you've seen recently, which activities refer to a future event?, which phrases use an object pronoun? Which words go along with our area of study [Earth Day for example] Look at a related website and repeat the steps above. When does the song change from lyrics in one language to another? Link reading to a visual and show the visual first-a personal video, a tourism clip, a feature film. I used to think this was the reward after the reading, but so many topics can be enhanced if you teach about them saying: remember when you saw… [A previous student's video about daily routines, the advertisement for the Col Vert campground, Petit Nicolas, The Phantom of the Opera are such examples worth a preview."

Good tips for building a positive classroom culture.

Un calendrier avec des photos des festivités de Noël en France - une photo par jour

Un calendrier avec des photos des festivités de Noël en France - une photo par jour. Use as a warm up each day during Advent - students could write lists of words to describe what they see in the pics. Nice way to include some cultural input about the holidays.

Un calendrier avec des photos des festivités de Noël en France - une photo par jour

Japanese Language and Culture Network - with additional links to resources

Welcome to our site to share students' work from the first to the fourth year Japanese language! The purpose of this site is to give you some ideas of what our students do in class and to create opportunities to share work by our students. Our program offers Elementary Japanese I and II (first year), Intermediate Japanese I, II (second year), Advanced Language and Composition (third year), and Advanced Language and Cultural Studies I to IV (fourth and fifth year). We have about 150 students enrolled in total for 2013-2014. Please click the classes which you are interested in and tell us what you think.

Actualité, enjeux, réactions, la voix du peuple haïtien Beaucoup de ressources authentiques sur Haïti: politique, économie, éducation, santé, culture, tourisme, social, sécurité, justice, sport, reconstruction, technologie, environnement, aide humanitaire...

DOSSIER : Utiliser la bande dessinée en langues anciennes Par Robert Delord et Marjorie Lévêque Le coup de vieux d'Alix l'a rajeuni ! ou de l'usage de la bande dessinée dans le cours de Langues et Cultures de l'Antiquité

At any given moment, the disciplines represent the most well-honed efforts of human beings to approach questions and concerns of importance in a systematic and reliable way. (Howard Gardner, The Disciplined Mind, p. 144)

What they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four and three, and two, and one. (Sandra Cisneros, "Eleven," from The House on Mango Street)

des ressources sur le Québec, sa culture, géographie, etc.

Project-based learning (PBL) demands excellent assessment practices to ensure that all learners are supported in the learning process. With good assessment practices, PBL can create a culture of excellence for all students. We've compiled some of the best resources from Edutopia and the web to support your use of assessment in PBL, including information about strategies, advice on how to address the demands of standardized tests, and summaries of the research.

German 1 Fantastische Vier Rapp Alphabet Mfg

Everything you wanted to know about French food but were afraid to ask.

Les nouvelles en brève de la Francophonie

La peinture impressionniste reste l'époque la plus fascinante de l'histoire de l'art moderne et la plus aimée du public. Des séries d'expositions à succès, une littérature abondante et des ventes records attestent de l'extraordinaire résonance des oeuvres des peintres impressionnistes, dont nombre sont gravées dans notre conscience artistique. A leur époque, les oeuvres impressionnistes apparurent d'une modernité tellement scandaleuse, qu'il fallut plus de trente ans à leurs contemporains pour, sinon les aimer, au moins les admettre.

Un site intéressant sur l'histoire de l'art - les impressionnistes. Un article assez avancé, donc plutôt pour les élèves de niveau 3, 4 et AP

Japan Travel and Living Guide