Excellent (!) PBS story about a young woman who studied Chinese at Middlebury. She is now a YouTube sensation, teaching English to a wide audience in China. A few of her keys to success--excellent language skills, relevant content, and feedback from her students on what they want to learn.
Stetz believes that teachers shouldn’t fear exploring creative ways to use technology in the classroom. “I think we have a responsibility in any content area to incorporate technology into our lessons,” she says.
The Authentic Materials Guide, created by Donna Brinton and Andrea Wong, provides an introduction to
Authentic Materials, annotated bibliographies on teaching methodology, and
links to online resources for creating lessons. The Guide offers sample lesson
plans, which you are welcome to adapt for your own use.
"The Authentic Materials Guide, created by Donna Brinton and Andrea Wong, provides an introduction to Authentic Materials, annotated bibliographies on teaching methodology, and links to online resources for creating lessons. The Guide offers sample lesson plans, which you are welcome to adapt for your own use."
From the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. These are spoken folk tales reinforced with animated pictures. Seems that only the Arabic and Chinese tales are in the TL and English with options to show subtitles in either. Wish stories from other countries were not just in English.