This is a unit on Spanish master painters. The lessons presented here are a part of the beginning unit. Each lesson is composed of art, literature, poetry, politics and history. This is a cooperative mystery game that can be adapted for any lesson on culture, geography, art and history.
How these “different Englishes” or even a language other than English contribute to identity is a crucial issue for adolescents.
Students then read and discuss Amy Tan's essay “Mother Tongue.” Finally, they write a literacy narrative describing two different languages they use and when and where they use these languages.
Livemocha, the world’s largest online language learning service, today announced the Livemocha Scholarship Program, which offers free and discounted foreign language services to high schools and community colleges across the nation. Livemocha aspires to create a world in which every person is fluent in multiple languages and to help support this mission will donate approximately five million dollars of language learning to U.S. schools in 2012. Schools can now apply for the needs-based Livemocha 2012 Scholarship Program offering discounts and free language learning solutions.
In the United States today, less than 40% of high school students and 8% of college students are enrolled in the study of a foreign language. According to a recent survey on multilingual talent in the workplace, 33% of Fortune 500 companies will require knowledge of a foreign language in order to qualify for employment.
Livemocha’s initiative is also dedicated to enhancing English as a second language (ESL) instruction for students in the process of learning English, or English Learners.
“It’s clear that the English-only mentality is no longer acceptable in light of our increasingly globalized world,” said Michael Schutzler, CEO of Livemocha
Livemocha is a company committed to helping every person on earth achieve fluency in a new language. As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice, and interaction with native language speakers from around the world.
This is an interesting article and the other link I tried to send didn't get done properly. My apologies. But, it's about foreign language programs in schools and how livemocha hopes to financially assist schools.
It helps to broaden horizons by connecting and matching people with others who wish to learn a language such as English. This is beneficial because it gives the opportunity to match up with Native speakers when learning another language for you as well and giving activities to learn based around grammar, vocabulary, and conversational language skills.