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Here is another website which is great to encourage all students to think and discuss (even the ones who don't speak English.) There are some good activities students can write about after they have watched the videos. http://www.literacyshed.com/

An excellent 20 minute TED talk on the danger of stereotypes - would be good to use with older students - to discuss views that they have of different countries.

A useful description which could be useful to discuss the difference between register/language/meaning/culture with students or faculty.

Designed for elementary school teachers - designed to promote discussion. Rich visual resources

This is a link to an article in the Guardian Newspaper, UK with photographs of photos and comments in 14 classrooms around the world. There is a book called Classroom Portraits by Julian Germain who has taken the photographs. Could be a great starting discussion on cultural differences in the classroom... every picture tells a story.

An article about free online courses offered by Harvard and MIT for those who can't afford them.

Heritage language speakers share many of the characteristics already discussed in earlier posts in this blog, but the way these characteristics are intertwined make them a special class of bilinguals.